Chapter III
RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN WIFE AND HUSBAND, BETWEEN PARENTS AND CHILDREN, BETWEEN OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS
Article 10.- Equality between wife and husband
1. In families, wives and husbands are equal, having equal rights and obligations in all aspects.
2. For ethnic groups where exist patriarchal or matriarchal family ties characterized by customs and practices which do not ensure the equality between wives and husbands, the commune-level People’s Committee, the Fatherland Front of the same level and its member organizations, the village patriarchs, the hamlet chiefs as well as the religious dignitaries shall mobilize and persuade people to gradually do away with inequality between wives and husbands in their family relations, ensuring that wives and husbands have equal rights and obligations in all aspects as provided for by the 2000 Marriage and Family Law.
Article 11.- Residence places of wives and husbands
1. Wives and husbands choose by themselves or mutually agree to stay separately or together with either of their families, without having to be bound by customs and practices. After their marriages, wives and husbands shall be entitled to live together without obstruction by anybody.
2. Patrilocality or matrilocality shall apply only when it is compatible with the wives and husbands aspiration to choose their residence places.
Article 12.- The right to property inheritance between wives and husbands
1. The customs and practices which do not ensure the right to property inheritance between wives and husbands when either marriage partner dies shall be done away with through mobilization in order to ensure the legitimate rights and interests of the living partner.
2. The inheritance of each other’s property between wife and husband when either partner dies, which demonstrates the ethnic identities but does not contravene the law provisions on inheritance, shall be respected and promoted.
Article 13.- Parents obligations and rights towards their children
Parents have the obligations and rights to love, nurture, look after, take care of and educate their children and to ensure the equality among their children.
Parents are strictly prohibited to take any act of discrimination among their children, refrain from nurturing, taking care of their children, to deliberately prevent their children from going to school, to maltreat, abuse and hurt their children, to incite their children to commit acts of law violation against the social ethics.
People are mobilized to eradicate customs and practices which show discrimination between boys and girls in patriarchal or matriarchal families of ethnic minorities.
Article 14.- Relationships among members in the family, lines of descent
The fine customs and practices of ethnic groups, which express the spirit of unity, mutual support and assistance among members of the family and the line of descent shall be respected and promoted.
Tìm kiếm
Nghị định 32/2002/NĐ-CP (Bản Word)