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On April 2, 2024, the Equal Marriage Bill passed the 1 agenda, remaining in consideration of agendas 2 and 3, respectively. When the Senate approves, Prime Minister, Settha Thaweesin, will present the bill to His Majesty the King for further use in the Royal Gazette.
It must wait until the senator approves this legislation in the remaining agenda or returns to the Council for amendments or reconsideration.
As for the contents of the Marriage Equality Act with additional modifications as follows
In the law, many words will be changed: the word marriage between ‘men to women’ to marriage between ‘person to person’, and from engagement, it will be changed from man and woman to ‘betrothing person to betrothal receipt’ so that the terminology will cover people of all genders.
Previously, the minimum age of a person who can legally marry or be engaged is at the age of 17 has been changed to 18 years old to be retired from childhood and considered as another way for child protection. This issue follows the Convention on the Rights of the Child where Thailand is also a part of those agreements.
Although LGBTQIA2S+ groups are legally married, the right to start a family remains an issue because the term ‘mother and father’ is still used in the law, which does not cover all groups because heterosexual groups have different identity definitions. For example, some couples may use ‘father-father’ or ‘mother-mother’. The term “First parents” will meet the issue and be more comprehensive, which must be resolved further.
In addition, there are other interesting issues such as the increase of compensation and divorce cases to be covered under the nature of the same-sex couple relationship.
It is a property that the bride-price givers give to the parents, adoptive parents, or parents of the bride-price receivers, as the case may be to reward the bride-price receivers who accept the betrothal if there is no significant marriage to the bride-price receiver or by behavior, the bride-price givers should not or cannot marry the bride-price receiver and can reclaim the bride-price.
The term shall be 6 months from the date on which the betrothing person or the betrothal receipt party knew or should know the actions for compensation request but shall not exceed 5 years from the date on which the other party has done so.
After this Marriage Equality law is approved, Thailand will be the first “Southeast Asian country” and the third Asian country next to Taiwan and Nepal, where LGBTQIA2S+ can legally marry and be married with the same rights as regular men and women, such as tax breaks, medical rights, and signing consent to medical treatment.
However, this law still has loopholes such as marriage may be guaranteed. Still, this law does not guarantee children and family building which must continue to follow the revision of the law for everyone and gender to enjoy equal rights that humans should enjoy.
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