IS POLICE OFFICER ALLOWED TO GET MARRIED TO CHRISTIAN?
Question: I am a police officer and now I have a girlfriend who is a Christian and we are about to get married, I am aware that i cannot marry my girlfriend at the moment because of her religious, so i want to know is there any other way to do that because I really want to marry my girlfriend.
Answer: Thank you for your question, DTD and associates are very pleased to answer your question as follows:
According to the Article 8 Law on Marriage and Family about the conditions for getting married.
“Article 8. Conditions for getting married
1. A man and a woman wishing to marry each other must satisfy the following conditions:
a /The man is full 20 years or older, the woman is full 18 years or older;
b/ The marriage is voluntarily decided by the man and woman;
c/ The man and woman do not lose the civil act capacity;
d/ The marriage does not fall into one of the cases prescribed at Points a, b, c and d, Clause 2, Article 5 of this Law.
2. The State shall not recognize marriage between persons of the same sex.”
The State prohibits these acts in marriage, according to Paragraph 2 of Article 5:
“The following acts are prohibited:
a/ Sham marriage or sham divorce;
b/ Underage marriage, forcing a person into marriage, deceiving a person into marriage, obstructing marriage;
c/ A married person getting married to or cohabitating as husband and wife with another person, or an unmarried person getting married to or cohabitating as husband and wife with a married person;
d/ Getting married or cohabiting as husband and wife between people of the same direct blood line; relatives within three generations; adoptive parent and adopted child; or former adoptive parent and adopted child, father-in-law and daughter-in-law, mother-in-law and son-in-law, or stepparent and stepchild;
dd/ Demanding property in marriage;
e/ Forcing a person into divorce; deceiving a person into divorce; obstructing divorce;
g/ Giving birth with assisted reproductive technology for commercial purpose, commercial gestational surrogacy, prenatal sex selection, cloning;
h/ Domestic violence;
i/ Taking advantage of marriage and family rights for human trafficking, labor exploitation or sexual abuse or committing another act for self-seeking purposes.”
So according to two regulations mentioned above in the Law on marriage and family 2014 then the marriage between a police officer and religious person doesn’t violate the law and is not prohibited. However, the People’s public security in specific and People’s Armed forces in general are specified field due to the nature of the work which is to be loyal to the policy of the Communist Party to protect the people’s legal rights, protect the public order and society safety,… So that this field requires specific conditions not only for the professional quality but the moral quality and politics condition in order to meet requirements of working in this field. In this case, conditions for marriage of the police officer are concluded in the regulations of the People’s public security.
Basing on Decision no.1275/2007/QD-BCA: Basic conditions for prohibition of getting married to the person who is in People’s Armed Forces:
In conclusion, if you’re working in the People’s Public Security, you must obey the regulations of this field because your girlfriend is Christian and it’s concluded in the regulation of prohibition of getting married mentioned above.
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