Picture: Sanook

 

It was a case that captivated the nation earlier in the year - a wife holding a "tabian somrot" or marriage certificate turning up at her husband's wedding to his mistress. 

 

Nipapan Mookaew, 33, said she was wronged by her husband's bit on the side and with the help of a lawyer and support group took the woman to court for damages in Chainat, central Thailand. 

 

Her husband had sneaked off to marry his mistress according to Buddhist tradition so it was not an officially recorded marriage. 

 

The couple had been married nearly 16 years and had two children and it all came as a surprise to the wife.

 

It became a "cause celebre" in Thailand where the battle between "mia luang" (official wife) and "mia noi" (minor wife) is engrained in the culture and comedy of the nation. 

 

There was even a report of another case. 

 

But cases such as these rarely result in damages. 

 

Nipapan had asked the court for her rival to pay her 300,000 baht. She got 200,000 baht plus interest. 

 

This was reported by her lawyer Anusorn "Pat" Asurapong who took up her case and started a "mia luang" support group. He said it was a lesson for "third parties" (a reference to the mia noi).

 

Sanook caught up with Nipapan who had posted online under a different surname that she was satisfied with the ruling.

 

She said that she was going to get on with her life and with looking after her two children. 

 

Some of the money - not as much as she had thought but a decent sum nonetheless - would be spent on her children's education and plenty of beauty treatment for herself at a clinic. 

 

After a weight loss program she was planning on breast enhancement, a chin job and whatever the clinic decides is good for her. 

 

She had a message to "mia luangs" everywhere.

 

"A marriage certificate has value and is not just a bit of paper. 

 

"Stand on your own two feet!

 

"These are our rights - don't give up the fight".

 

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So are they still 'married'?......If she now goes for a divorce to what might she be entitled?

The moral of the story. The lawyer got 200.000 baht. She forgot to mention that. No money left for cosmetic and plastic surgeries and if there is, she works hand in hand with the lawyer paving way for new customers. Nothing is what it seems to be.   

If the husband at same time get rid of the mia luang, it might in a way be a cheap settlement for him...????

 

I once again realize freedom benefits from never being married...????????????

1 hour ago, webfact said:

She had a message to "mia luangs" everywhere.

 

 'If you can't Beat them? - Join them...'   

       [ to also be young and have bigger b(o)(o)bies ]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

plenty of beauty treatment for herself at a clinic. 

 

After a weight loss program she was planning on breast enhancement, a chin job and whatever the clinic decides is good for her. 

I found this hilarious that the wife somehow thought she needed to lose weight, get a breast augmentation and a chin job.  Now I wonder what the husband thought also? 

 

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Her husband had sneaked off to marry his mistress according to Buddhist tradition

 

A little vague...

To me it is all amusing, but what i do not understand is this, How is husband leaving the wife becomes mia nois fault?

 

Should it not be the husband who pays?

 

Did mia noi put a gun to his head making him sleep with her and marry her?

 

See this same <deleted> every day, it is always the 3rd parties fault, not once this idiots sit or stop to think, 3rd party is actually the innocent one

3 hours ago, webfact said:

A marriage certificate has value and is not just a bit of paper

The article doesn't clearly state if the court only awarded damages or if she's actually already received the money. She claims she's proved that a marriage certificate isn't just "a bit of paper," but I fear that if time slips by without her receiving compensation, she may ultimately be forced to admit that the court's decision was little more than just that, i.e., "a bit of paper."

 

 

Cheap, I could name dirty farang who were cheated out of millions of Baht .... just saying ...... 

4 hours ago, webfact said:

After a weight loss program she was planning on breast enhancement, a chin job and whatever the clinic decides is good for her. 

 

Would like to see a pic after completing the mission. She might have become a hot <deleted>

But after paying her lawyer, she could only afford one new boob....

2 hours ago, Thomas J said:

I found this hilarious that the wife somehow thought she needed to lose weight, get a breast augmentation and a chin job.  Now I wonder what the husband thought also? 

 

That's why the husband got is bit on the side. I would have thought that it was the husband who should have been taken to task. But as the bard said, 'East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet. When it comes to logic, it rings true.????

Mia luang … pun pui krab 

5 hours ago, webfact said:

After a weight loss program she was planning on breast enhancement, a chin job and whatever the clinic decides is good for her. 

A-hunting she will go...

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Some of the money - not as much as she had thought but a decent sum nonetheless - would be spent on her children's education and plenty of beauty treatment for herself at a clinic.

I can start to understand why he strayed... why not 100% on the kids

2 hours ago, BangkokReady said:

 

A little vague...

Or a little vogue?

Could have been avoided, but they were off to Phuket and needed a marriage certificate.

4 hours ago, BestB said:

To me it is all amusing, but what i do not understand is this, How is husband leaving the wife becomes mia nois fault?

 

Should it not be the husband who pays?

 

Did mia noi put a gun to his head making him sleep with her and marry her?

 

See this same <deleted> every day, it is always the 3rd parties fault, not once this idiots sit or stop to think, 3rd party is actually the innocent one

 

Alienation of affections

17 hours ago, Gold Star said:

But after paying her lawyer, she could only afford one new boob....

 She could settle for a pair of A cups! 

On 6/26/2021 at 4:18 PM, BestB said:

To me it is all amusing, but what i do not understand is this, How is husband leaving the wife becomes mia nois fault?

 

Should it not be the husband who pays?

 

Did mia noi put a gun to his head making him sleep with her and marry her?

 

See this same <deleted> every day, it is always the 3rd parties fault, not once this idiots sit or stop to think, 3rd party is actually the innocent one

The "temptress" took another woman's  man away, led him by the penis and wronged the wife. 

On 6/26/2021 at 6:58 AM, BangkokReady said:

 

A little vague...

"Her husband had sneaked off to marry his mistress according to Buddhist tradition "

 

If it is a Buddhist tradition that a husbands can sneak off to marry his mistress -  this must make it OK -  so what was all the fuss about ?

1 hour ago, RJRS1301 said:

The "temptress" took another woman's  man away, led him by the penis and wronged the wife. 

The man, has a pair of legs, pair of hands and supposedly a brain above his shoulders, he could always say no ????

 

The only one who wronged the wife is a husband and no one else, then a dumbass lawyer who should have filed for divorce and seek half of husbands assets plus alimony for kids for the next decade or so, instead of going after mia noi for 200 000 where at least half would be legal fees

On 6/26/2021 at 10:30 AM, webfact said:

Stand on your own two feet!

Agree what lousey parents, hope her 2 children leave as soon as they can. 

On 6/26/2021 at 10:30 AM, webfact said:

Nipapan Mookaew, 33, said she was wronged by her husband's bit on the side

Wife sounds like a bit of a Moo-Cow!

On 6/26/2021 at 10:30 AM, webfact said:

Some of the money - not as much as she had thought but a decent sum nonetheless - would be spent on her children's education and plenty of beauty treatment for herself at a clinic. 

 

After a weight loss program she was planning on breast enhancement, a chin job and whatever the clinic decides is good for her. 

Priorities

well she already wasted cash on an ugly nose job, carry on luv