Prenuptial Agreement

Premarital agreements are often created to solve the asset’s problems when the divorce happened and for the aim of protecting not only the assets of wealthy spouses but also can protect family businesses.

In Vietnam, this agreement shall be made in writing before their marriage and be notarized or certified. Husband and wife have the right to modify their agreement on the property regime. This modifying of contract will take effect on the date it is notarized or certified. When establishing and making a transaction, the husband and wife have to show the third party with this information. If they intend to ignore this information and may be harmful for the third party, they will be protected by civil law.

Regarding to the contract, the basic contents of an agreement on the property regime include:

a/ Property determined as common property and separate property of the husband and wife;

b/ Rights and obligations of the husband and wife toward common property, separate property and related transactions; property to meet the family’s essential needs;

c/ Conditions, procedures and principles of property division upon termination of the property regime;

d/ Other related contents.

An agreement on the matrimonial property regime will be declared to be invalid by a court when:

a/ It fails to meet the conditions on effect of transactions prescribed the Civil Code and other relevant laws;

b/ It violates Article 29, 30, 31 or 32 of Law on marriage and family;

c/ Its contents seriously infringe upon the rights to be supported and inherit and other lawful rights and interests of parents, children and other family members.
 

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