Can teachers marry their students in Vietnam?

Can teachers marry their students in Vietnam?

Pursuant to Article 8 of the Law on Marriage and Family 2014, conditions for getting married are as follows:

1. A man and a woman wishing to marry each other must satisfy the following conditions:

a /The man is full 20 years or older, the woman is full 18 years or older;

b/ The marriage is voluntarily decided by the man and woman;

c/ The man and woman do not lose the civil act capacity;

d/ The marriage does not fall into one of the cases prescribed at Points a, b, c and d, Clause 2, Article 5 of this Law.

2. The State shall not recognize marriage between persons of the same sex.

In Clause 2, Article 5 of the Law on Marriage and Family 2014, the following acts are prohibited:

2. The following acts are prohibited:

a/ Sham marriage or sham divorce;

b/ Underage marriage, forcing a person into marriage, deceiving a person into marriage, obstructing marriage;

c/ A married person getting married to or cohabitating as husband and wife with another person, or an unmarried person getting married to or cohabitating as husband and wife with a married person;

d/ Getting married or cohabitating as husband and wife between people of the same direct blood line; relatives within three generations; adoptive parent and adopted child; or former adoptive parent and adopted child, father-in-law and daughter-in-law, mother-in-law and son-in-law, or stepparent and stepchild;

dd/ Demanding property in marriage;

e/ Forcing a person into divorce; deceiving a person into divorce; obstructing divorce;

g/ Giving birth with assisted reproductive technology for commercial purpose, commercial gestational surrogacy, prenatal sex selection, cloning;

h/ Domestic violence;

i/ Taking advantage of marriage and family rights for human trafficking, labor exploitation or sexual abuse or committing another act for self-seeking purposes.

Thus, according to the above regulations in Vietnam, there is no prohibition that teachers cannot marry students. However, in order to be married to this student, you and this student must fully meet the conditions specified above.

Will teachers who marry their students be disciplined in Vietnam?

According to Article 16 of Decree 112/2020/ND-CP, the form of discipline and reprimand shall be applied to first-time violations, causing less serious consequences, except for violations specified in Clause 3, Article 17 of Decree 112/2020/ND-CP, in one of the following cases:

1. Failling to comply with professional processes, regulations, professional ethics and codes of conduct while performing professional activities, which have been warned in writing by competent authorities;

2. Violating the law on: performing the duties and responsibilities of public employees; labor discipline; regulations, rules and working regulations of public non-business units which have been reminded in writing by competent authorities;

3. Taking advantage of the working position for self-seeking purposes; having a bossy, authoritarian attitude or causing difficulties or troubles to people in the course of performing assigned tasks and tasks; certifying or issuing legal documents to ineligible persons; offending the honor, dignity and reputation of others while performing professional activities;

4. Failling to comply with the decision on assignment of work of the competent authority; failling to perform assigned duties without a valid reason; causing disunity in the unit;

5. Violating the provisions of law on: crime prevention and combat; Preventing social evils; safety and order of society; Anti-corruption; practice thrift, fight waste;

6. Violating regulations of law on protection of state secrets;

7. Violating the provisions of law on complaints and denunciations;

8. Violating the provisions of law on: investment, construction; land, natural resources and environment; finance, accounting, banking; management and use of public property in the course of professional activities;

9. Violating the law on: domestic violence prevention and control; population, marriage and family; gender equality; Social Security; other provisions of law relating to public employees.

According to this Article, if you marry a student without meeting the marriage conditions as above, you will be disciplined with a reprimand, the specific form of discipline depends on the consequences in Vietnam.

Best regards!