How are child marriage and child marriage organizations handled?

TRUONG GIANG(Ninh Giang)

Reply:

According to Clause 8, Article 3 of the 2014 Law on Marriage and Family, “child marriage” is the act of getting married when one or both parties are under the age of marriage as prescribed in Point a, Clause 1, Article 8 of this Law, that is, when the man is under 20 years old or the woman is under 18 years old or both the man and the woman are under the age of marriage. Organizing child marriage is understood as organizing marriage for people who are under the age prescribed in the 2014 Law on Marriage and Family.

Article 47 of Decree No. 110/2013/ND-CP dated September 24, 2013 of the Government stipulating administrative sanctions in the fields of judicial assistance, judicial administration, marriage and family, civil judgment enforcement, enterprise and cooperative bankruptcy stipulates that acts of early marriage and organizing early marriage will be administratively sanctioned as follows:

- Warning or fine from 500,000 VND to 1,000,000 VND for the act of organizing marriage for people under the marriageable age;

- A fine of VND 1,000,000 to VND 3,000,000 shall be imposed for intentionally maintaining an illegal marital relationship with a person under the age of marriage despite a decision by the People's Court forcing the termination of that relationship.

According to Article 183 of the 2015 Penal Code, the crime of organizing child marriage is regulated as follows: Anyone who organizes marriages for people who are not of marriageable age, has been administratively sanctioned for this act but still violates, shall be fined from 10 to 30 million VND or sentenced to non-custodial reform for up to 2 years.