UK Decree Absolute

[justintimetoday2016]

I would be grateful if someone might be able to provide me with advice regarding  a Decree Absolute obtained in the UK. I married in Bangkok and having obtained the divorce from a Thai National, I am getting differing advice as to whether I have to inform the Amphur in Bangkok and precisely what I have to do.   One set of advice is that I must first have the decree legalised by the FCO Milton Keynes UK and then having had it translated into Thai legalise it at the MOFA Bangkok and then take it to the Amphur.  The other advice was to do nothing and be happy I have obtained the divorce.  I would welcome and appreciate some factual info.

 

Thank you in advance.

[davehowden]

As I read it you married a Thai national in Bangkok and got divorced in the UK.

 

Depends if you plan to remarry in Thailand at some time, if not I would do nothing and not waste my money.

[stament]

Unclear where you got divorced, also you mentioned you got married in TH, did you register the marriage in the UK as well as TH?

[justintimetoday2016]

'Unclear where you got the divorce'.   As I read it I said UK!  However for the avoidance of any doubt as the law in the UK is different in England and Wales from that in Scotland or N. Ireland, it was in the Family Court in the South West region of England. 

[davehowden]

If you do nothing you will still be legally married under Thai law, does that matter to you, and if so why?

 

I married a Thai in Thailand and got divorced in Thailand.

 

When I wanted to marry another Thai in Thailand the Thai authorities were not interested in my Thai Divorce certificate from my previous marriage to a Thai, they wanted a letter from the British Embassy in Bangkok saying I was free to marry which was granted based on my UK Divorce Absolute from my ex in the UK 8 years previously.

Seems a Thai divorce certificate will not figure greatly in any future plans you might have?

 

 

[justintimetoday2016]

'Once bitten twice shy' I believe the saying goes!  But thankk you for info about still being married in Thailand if I don't register it at the Amphur.  That's exactly the reason why I don't want loose ends.  Thank you.