TheliX

The split of the land was all done at the land office and all papers are in order.

This whole idea of building a house each was their mutual plan, but maybe the sister was too optimistic about the financing.

The current house is old and beyond all hope, has to be taken down and replaced.

No, we don´t live in Thailand, for us this would be a house to stay in 1 month yearly for our holiday. Later we consider moving there permanently, but that´s in about 20 years when we retire.

I understand your warnings, this is obviously not an ideal situation. When my wife and her sister was given the land three years ago, everyone seemed to agree on the plans for the future, both building a house each on their respective land-piece.

Things seem to have changed though due to monetary issues. The sister and her husband (also thai) both work full-time but seem incapable of saving any money for their future house. They are in their mid-thirties but basically act like teenagers, never heard of them saving any money at all actually. Quite mindblowing actually, thinking that we would build a house for them to live in also. Even my wife with her family-oriented thai mindset was provoked by this.

We don´t have any plans to ever sell this land, if we build a house there it is not an investment but a sentimental thing I would do for my wife. I estimate the cost to 1-1.5 million bahts and it will be a regular thaistyle village house. I obviously will not own it in any way, so all money lost in that aspect, unless maybe if we get a mutual child that can inherit both the land and the house.

I will check the legal status, but the land is measured and checked by the land office so it should b either Nor Sor 3 Gor or Nor Sor 4 (chanote).

Ok, thank you all for answering, she was right after all!

Anyhow, this piece of land is actually her family home so the mother and sister (with family) still lives in a house on it. When the father passed away my wife and her sister was given half the family land each, the initial land-piece split into two .

The problem is that her sister with husband and tree kids don´t to do anything to build something of their own on their half, which was the plan.

Will this mean that the sister can claim rights to "our" half if we don´t do anything to maintain or modify it, since she is actually living there?

The plan is to build a new house for us where the old house is now situated, but that probably won´t be happening in the next few years though. We definitely, neither of us, want´t to share a house with her sister and her family. The mother would of course be allowed to stay there though!

This has created some tension in the wife´s family lately, and we need to sort out the legal prerequisites.

Hi, my thai wife inherited a piece of land a couple of years ago. She now claims that she need to actively do "something" with it in reasonable time, within 10 years she says, or else the land could be forfeit?

Seem strange to me, why wouldn´t it be allowed to passively own land for a long period of time. It sure is where I come from (europe).