Chapter XV
CRIMES OF INFRINGING UPON THE MARRIAGE AND FAMILY REGIMES
Article 146.- Forcible marriage or prevention of voluntary and progressive marriage
Those who force other persons into marriage against their will or prevent other persons from entering into marriage or maintaining voluntary and progressive marriage bonds through persecution, ill-treatment, mental intimidation, property claim or other means, and who have already been administratively sanctioned for such acts but repeat their violations, shall be subject to warning, non-custodial reform for up to three years or a prison term of between three months and three years.
Article 147.- Bigamy
1. Any married person who marries or lives with another person like husband or wife or any unmarried person who marries or lives with another person who he/she knows to be a married person, thus causing serious consequences, or who has been administratively sanctioned for such acts but repeat the violation, shall be subject to warning, non-custodial reform for up to one year or a prison term of between three months and one year.
2. Those who commit the crime in cases where the court has already decided to dissolve the marriage or force the termination of co-habitation like husband and wife contrary to the monogamy but continuing to maintain such relationship shall be sentenced to between six months and three years of imprisonment.
Article 148.- Organizing underage marriage, entering into underage marriage
Those who commit one of the following acts, have already been administratively sanctioned but repeat their violation, shall be subject to warning, non-custodial reform for up to two years or a prison term of between three months and two years:
a) Organizing marriage for under age persons;
b) Deliberately maintaining the illegal conjugal relationship with underage persons though the court has already decided the termination of such relationship.
Article 149.- Registering illegal marriage
1. Those who are responsible for the registration of marriage and know clearly that the applicants are not qualified for the marriage and still make the registration for such persons, have been disciplined for such act but repeat their violation, shall be subject to warning, non-custodial reform for up to two years or a prison term of between three months and two years.
2. The offenders may also be banned from holding certain posts for one to five years.
Article 150.- Incest
Those who have sexual intercourse with other persons of direct blood lines, with sisters or brothers born of common parents, with half-brothers or half-sisters, shall be sentenced to between six months and five years of imprisonment.
Article 151.- Ill-treating or persecuting grand-parents, parents, spouses, children, grandchildren and/or fosterers
Those who ill-treat or persecute their grand-parents, parents, spouses, children, grand-children or fosterers, thus causing serious consequences or who have already been administratively sanctioned for such acts but repeat their violations, shall be subject to warning, non-custodial reform for up to three years or a prison term of between three months and three years.
Article 152.- Refusing or evading the obligation to provide financial support
Those who have the obligation to provide financial support and have the actual capability to provide the financial support for the persons they are obliged to do so according to the provisions of law but deliberately refuse or evade the obligation to provide financial support, thus causing serious consequences or who have already been administratively sanctioned for such acts but repeat their violations, shall be subject to warning, non-custodial reform for up to two years or a prison term of between three months and two years.
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Bộ luật Hình sự 1999 (Bản Word)
