In Vietnam, is it possible to marry a father's stepchild?

In Vietnam, is it possible to marry a father's stepchild?

Article 8 of the Law on Marriage and Family 2014 provides for the following conditions of marriage:

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.

Point d Clause 2 Article 5 of the Law on Marriage and Family 2014 stipulates the following prohibited cases:

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;

Clause 18 Article 3 of the Law on Marriage and Family 2014 provides:

18. Relatives within three generations are people born of the same stock with parents constituting the first generation; full siblings, paternal half-siblings and maternal half-siblings constituting the second generation; and children of paternal aunts, maternal aunts, paternal uncles, maternal uncles constituting the third generation.

According to this Article, your problem belongs to the case of a brother, sister, half-sister. Therefore, you can't get married in Vietnam.

In Vietnam,after marriage, is it obligatory for the couple to live together?

In Article 19 of the Law on Marriage and Family 2014, there are provisions on marital status as follows:

1. Husband and wife have the obligations to love, be faithful to, respect, attend to, care for, and help each other and share family work.

2. Unless otherwise agreed by them or due to requirements of their occupations, work or study, or participation in political, economic, cultural or social activities or for another plausible reason, husband and wife have the obligation to live together.

According to this Article, Vietnamese law does not oblige spouses to live together, if spouses fall into the cases listed above, they may not live together.

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