What are the conditions for getting married?

According to the 2014 Law on Marriage and Family, a man and a woman wishing to marry each other must satisfy the following conditions:

  • The man is fully 20 years or older and the woman is fully 18 years or older;
  • The marriage is voluntarily decided by the man and woman;
  • The man and woman have not lost their civil capacity to act;
  • The marriage does not fall under the definition of one of the prohibited marriages:
    1. A sham marriage;
    2. An underage marriage, forcing a person into marriage, deceiving a person into marriage, obstructing a marriage;
    3. 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;
    4. Getting married or cohabitating as husband and wife between people of the same direct bloodline; 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;
    5. Marriage between people of the same sex.
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