can one part get divorce alone?

[INV]

So  a friend of mine left Thailand in a rush and make long story short, his Thai wife agreed

to sign divorce paper after she get a sum of money and she got money and after that she gone.

That was 5 years ago and she not reply to him so my question is can she divorce him

with out him being here? I will try find out with the amphur were they married if Ithey

still are married and if will share that information. Is there a law that allow one part to divorce

if the other part gone and refuse to reply to any form of contact?

 

[CharlieH]

I believe , after 2yrs separation it can be done alone.

[jastheace]

1 hour ago, CharlieH said:

I believe , after 2yrs separation it can be done alone.

any chance of that can be verified ?

ie can one just go to an amphur office, does one need a letter from solicitor/ attorney ?

any documents needed ? fees ?

any link maybe ? anyone experience ?

[happylarry]

To get divorced in the amphur both parties need to attend and both be willing to divorce.

You can sue for divorce for abandonment after no contact for one year but you need to go to court and have a lawyer to represent you. Fees vary depending on circumstances so you would have to consult the lawyer for that. 

HL

[phantomfiddler]

On 12/1/2019 at 5:55 PM, happylarry said:

To get divorced in the amphur both parties need to attend and both be willing to divorce.

You can sue for divorce for abandonment after no contact for one year but you need to go to court and have a lawyer to represent you. Fees vary depending on circumstances so you would have to consult the lawyer for that. 

HL

Whatever the fee, it,s worth it ????

[30la]

If you talk about Thailand, I certainly think so, important is: how much you pay!
It's not corruption, corruption has been eradicated by the general! ????

[jonwilly]

I was married in Bangkok. To divorce the wife I had to get a Thai lawyer who started a case in the Religious division of the Family Court in Bangkok.

It was a court case as we were legally married. Cost was B50K, about half of that was to hire the court.

 

john

[tifino]

 I went the abandonement avenue.

 Did it totally in falangland... 

"she's somewhere over there, when she ran away back to her home country. Dunno her address because she was at an old rental prior to marriage, and that was a no longer known address..."

 

the above was enough for the falangland Court to rubber stamp on. No lawyer needed, and only cost me the standard Court fee of $563. done and dusted... 

 

the (now) Mrs had her old pre-with-me story too... 

She'd been 11+ years earlier married, at Amphur, to another aussie.

They had soon later done a ceremony in Aust.

11 years later, they did a falangland-only Divorce.

All Divorce documentation is all Australian (only) 

Nothing was ever done via Amphur, and nothing ever later was sent to the Amphur for recording. 

 

Both of us did our own separate previous Divorces, unaccompanied by our respective Exs.  

 

The Abandonement Angle is a winner!!