Is it permissible for sister to marry her adoptive brother in Vietnam?
Pursuant to Article 8 of the Law on Marriage and Family in 2014 stipulating conditions for getting married in Vietnam as follows: 1. A man and a woman wishing to marry each other must satisfy the following conditions: a /The man is full 20 years or older, the woman is full 18 years or older; b/ The marriage is voluntarily decided by the man and woman; c/ The man and woman do not lose the civil act capacity; d/ The marriage does not fall into one of the cases prescribed at Points a, b, c and d, Clause 2, Article 5 of this Law. 2. The State shall not recognize marriage between persons of the same sex. Pursuant to Clause 2, Article 5 of the same Law stipulating prohibited acts as follows: a/ Sham marriage or sham divorce; b/ Underage marriage, forcing a person into marriage, deceiving a person into marriage, obstructing marriage; c/ 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; d/ Getting married or cohabitating as husband and wife between people of the same direct blood line; 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; dd/ Demanding property in marriage; e/ Forcing a person into divorce; deceiving a person into divorce; obstructing divorce; g/ Giving birth with assisted reproductive technology for commercial purpose, commercial gestational surrogacy, prenatal sex selection, cloning; h/ Domestic violence; i/ Taking advantage of marriage and family rights for human trafficking, labor exploitation or sexual abuse or committing another act for self-seeking purposes. As regulations above, marriage is the right of citizen as long as you meet all requirements as prescribed in Law. In your case, marriage between you and your adoptive brother is not prohibited as long as both you meet all requirements prescribed above.