Length of time to get divorced?

[thaibeachlovers]

Just interested, but is there a minimum time limit to get divorced in LOS?

eg, in my home country there is a legal seperation time of 2 years before obtaining a divorce in an uncontested divorce.

Thanks.

[nithisa78]

Ask the lawyer.

[Farma]

No wait if uncontested. Both appear at the umphur with required papers and the divorce is granted.

[harrry]

But the UK can refuse to recognise an uncontested ampur divorce.

Under their law, the validity of a foreign non-procedural divorce shall be recognized if:

1. The divorce is effective under the law of the country in which it was obtained;
2. At the relevant date -
   1. Each party to the marriage was domiciled in that country;
   2. Either party to the marriage was domiciled in that country and the other party was domiciled in a country under whose law the divorce is recognized as valid; and
   3. Neither party to the marriage was habitually resident in the UK throughout the period of one year immediately preceding that date.

http://www.siam-legal.com/thailand-law-library/divorce_library/uncontested_divorce_in_thailand.php

Edited July 17, 2015 by harrry

[Emster23]

We started proceedings at 8:30 in the morning, had some delays due to computer being down at Pattaya city hall and she had to go to Banglamung because her ID card didn't match her married name. Signed final papers back at Banglamung at 1:37 pm. Uncontested divorce: she gotten what she wanted already and I was ready to have her out of my life.

[harrry]

We started proceedings at 8:30 in the morning, had some delays due to computer being down at Pattaya city hall and she had to go to Banglamung because her ID card didn't match her married name. Signed final papers back at Banglamung at 1:37 pm. Uncontested divorce: she gotten what she wanted already and I was ready to have her out of my life.

So if you are from the UK and fill the catagories above you are still married as far as the UK is concerned so any fuure marriage is a bigamous one and does not exist.

[smotherb]

We started proceedings at 8:30 in the morning, had some delays due to computer being down at Pattaya city hall and she had to go to Banglamung because her ID card didn't match her married name. Signed final papers back at Banglamung at 1:37 pm. Uncontested divorce: she gotten what she wanted already and I was ready to have her out of my life.

So if you are from the UK and fill the catagories above you are still married as far as the UK is concerned so any fuure marriage is a bigamous one and does not exist.

That is a shame and reeks of extraterritoriality. If you were legally married in Thailand, then legally divorced in Thailand; what grounds has the UK to consider you still married. That is, of course, if you did not marry in the UK and only registered the Thai marriage and divorce there.

[thaibeachlovers]

Thanks for all replies.