Is Mental Infidelity Considered a Violation of Marriage Policies?

Is emotional infidelity considered a violation of marriage policies?

According to Clause 2, Article 5 of the Law on Marriage and Family 2014, the prohibition of certain acts in order to protect marriage and family policies is prescribed as follows:

2. The following acts are prohibited:

a) Fake marriage, fake divorce;

b) Child marriage, forced marriage, deceitful marriage, obstruction of marriage;

c) A married person marrying or cohabiting as husband and wife with another person or an unmarried person marrying or cohabiting as husband and wife with a person who is married;

d) Marriage or cohabitation as husband and wife between persons of direct blood lineage; between relatives within three generations; between adoptive parents and adopted children; between persons who used to be adoptive parents and adopted children, father-in-law and daughter-in-law, mother-in-law and son-in-law, stepfather and stepchild, stepmother and stepchild;

dd) Asset demands in marriage;

e) Forced divorce, deceitful divorce, obstruction of divorce;

g) Performing childbirth using reproductive techniques for commercial purposes, surrogacy for commercial purposes, sex selection of embryos, asexual reproduction;

h) Domestic violence;

i) Exploiting the exercise of rights in marriage and family to traffic in persons, labor exploitation, sexual abuse, or engaging in other acts for profiteering purposes.

Based on current regulations, the law does not consider emotional infidelity as a violation of marriage policies. Therefore, from a legal perspective, this act does not violate the law.

Can individuals marry if their marriage is arranged by their families?

Clause 1, Article 8 of the Law on Marriage and Family 2014 prescribes as follows:

1. A marriage between a man and a woman must meet the following conditions:

a) The male is aged from 20 years or older, the female is aged from 18 years or older;

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

c) Not losing civil act capacity;

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

The marriage must be voluntarily decided by both parties; a marriage arranged by both families will not meet the marriage conditions.

Respectfully!