Thailand Family Law Partners is proud to contribute legal insight to international research on women’s rights, family law, and access to justice in Thailand. One important example is our involvement in responding to legal and practical questions connected with the World Bank Women, Business and the Law survey.

The Women, Business and the Law project examines how laws and institutions affect women’s economic opportunities. In the Thai context, many of the relevant issues overlap with family law, civil status, property rights, marriage, divorce, children, nationality, mobility, and access to legal remedies. These are areas where the written law is important, but practical enforcement is equally important.

A law may appear equal on paper, but women may still face barriers if public authorities apply the rule inconsistently, require excessive documentation, delay recognition of rights, or fail to provide clear procedures. For this reason, the survey asks not only what the law says, but also how legal rights are upheld in practice.