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5 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

I had a friend die recently and she contacted the police they came looked at his dead body took some details and told her to contact the USA embassy, didn't take his passport they shipped his body off to the mortuary and waited for the death certificate from the embassy before they would release the body for cremation.

That was the easy bit.

Without getting into too many details he had a will here and in the USA now the problems start 3 months and nothing sorted either here or the USA seems to me the other beneficiaries in the USA will are trying to not pay her part of the will that was left to her, messy already 

I should have added the lawyers here in Phuket are at it already 

That is a good example of why you have to choose your executors carefully.

One more VERY important point to remember is that if you do come to Thailand and choose to marry your tirak, the act of marriage invalidates any previous Will. That has the effect of your widow inheriting everything under the rules of intestacy (in the case of the UK). 

If you marry review your Will and make a new one/s if appropriate.

You (your widow) does not need to contact the British embassy at all.

If you die at home the police must be informed within 24 hours.

If you die in hospital then an embassy release letter will be required before your body can be removed for cremation.

Make a Will if you have assets in Thailand (separate one if you have assets in the UK). If you die intestate in Thailand your assets do not automatically pass to your widow (like the UK). A Will should make it easier for your widow to extract cash from bank accounts - and transfer any vehicles that may be in your name. Court approval will ost likely be required (ie the equivalent of 'proving ' the Will).

I suggest that your widow does not give up your passport to anyone...... at least not without taking several copies. Lopburi is right, the police would usually ask for it. Fob them off with a copy if the death occurs at home.

Thailand is not on this Wikipedia Third World country list....... so that is that.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/third-world-countries/

7 minutes ago, essox essox said:

he is allowed HIS opinion....like all other fellow men/women.....

Of course he is.

My opinion is that his opinion is nothing to do with the best interests of Thailand, rather the best interests of Thaksin............................ but we know that.

On 5/14/2020 at 10:16 PM, Andrew Dwyer said:

 

 just the thought of what will become of my “ stuff” when i’m gone saddens me .

Personally, I have never clung on the material things but I do understand that it must have been a difficult task clearing out your former home.

I cherish nothing. I came to Thailand with a suit case and my golf clubs..... the latter only used about 20 times and now gathering dust. On Facebook former school friends are making nostalgic posts of vinyl singles and albums - I have none, gone in divorces or house moves. 

Worrying, or feeling saddened, about what will happen to chattels after your death is an unnecessary concern which should not be allowed to detract from enjoying your life. 

We come into this world with nothing and we leave it with nothing.

30 minutes ago, Heppinger said:

I would suggest that this is the intention.  Would be surprised if Trump has the ability to tie his shoe laces let alone handle fiscal policies and trade deficit's.  I believe he was ordered to act as President to pay off his debt he holds with bankers and to keep the American population divided and looking over here, while over there, America's tech industry is transferred to China.

I think it is the range and variety of vivid imagination that I find most entertaining on Thai Visa.

1 minute ago, kingdong said:

Thailand is a third world country with 1st  world aspirations and prices.

Thailand is not a third world country  -  it just acts like it at times.

7 minutes ago, kotsak said:

Could.. So not final yet.

 

"Could"................. until it appears in the Royal Gazette

19 hours ago, hotandsticky said:

GOV.UK

	COVID-19: In line with public health guidance, we continue to work with fewer staff. We are still unable to advise when a passport will be issued if your application is successful, and are sorry for the inconvenience caused. Please do not contact us about progress: we will process your application as soon as we can.

Just now, tomauasia said:

I would prefer this man any day and so would most Thais 

Had he served his time like a man, they could possibly have had him.

1 minute ago, Pomrakuhn said:

I did my 90 day at Jomtien last week. Very quiet in and out in 2  minutes.

Why did you feel the need to do that ?

Did mine on Tuesday in Buriram, 39 days before expiry date. Very quiet.

4 minutes ago, EricTh said:

@Makoshark

 

I did my online reporting a few days ago and it was approved.

 

It must be reported within 14 days before due date. If you report too early, it will be rejected.

Forgive the minor correction........ 15 days before..

54 minutes ago, Mama Noodle said:

 

Uh, 4 months ago nobody had any idea this was going to be a global pandemic that caused the globe to shutdown. If Id have done what I was planning 4 months ago with the available information at the time I would be ruined. Its just luck. 

 

 

Not your fault, no, but you escaping it is luck of the draw. And hopefully the world recovers quickly and your position does not devalue and inflation ruins you. Because thats a very real possibility if we dont rebound fairly quickly. 

A bit like Gary Player was quoted as saying after being called lucky....................the more I practice, and the harder I work, the luckier I get.

I suppose owning a crematorium in the current situation does fall into the lucky bracket.......... but that could have lost me £100,00 if the investment had gone the wrong way.

6 minutes ago, vogie said:

Tesco has its own range and the Montepulciano d'Abruzzo at 549 baht a bottle is okay, as are some of their other wines.

 

But 549 baht for a bottle of "ok" wine, which is around £14 in proper money still seems pricey to me, maybe I'm just a cheap charlie.????

Not a Cheap Charlie - just making the same mistake as me....... comparing obscenely taxed prices in Thailand with home country value. The bottle you described would be under a Fiver in a UK supermarket; probably less in Spain.

1 minute ago, ThailandRyan said:

Stop making me gag please Steven100, we all know that you sympathize with this government as many others also do, but the people have done nothing that they have not been forced to do, and a failure to test at a higher level outside of being sick or a PUI, does not help people to know what the true picture is.....Smoke and mirrors....

Testing is irrelevant unless you just want to increase your case numbers - look at Russia, highest testing rate so higher cases, but the important measure ie deaths is one of the lowest. 

You don't direct your resources to those with mild infection, you reserve that for savings lives of the most vulnerable and worst affected.

1 minute ago, steven100 said:

Thank you Khun Prayut Chan O Cha for enforcement and containment measures that ultimately lead to minimal transmission and infections within Thailand. 

Thailand has done an excellent job in curbing the COVID-19 virus thanks to Khun Prayut's restrictions. 

Irrespective of the personalities involved, it is good to see someone praising the authorities for what they HAVE achieved, rather than taking cheap shots at what might not have been done. In my home country I am appalled that all and sundry (including the media) only focus on negatives. These are unprecedented times and no one had a blueprint that was 100% foolproof.

1 minute ago, Mama Noodle said:

Compelling argument. Fact remains most people take loans to buy homes and it takes a while to gain capital - years - and if things happen just at the right moment they are decimated. 

 

You managed to escape a once in a 100 year pandemic, thats got nothing to do with your ethics and everything to do with luck. Same with me, pure luck I didn't expend my savings moving back home - otherwise Id be ruined. I can sit here for a couple years in boredom if necessary, but there's going to be alot that can't. 

I don't call what you have done "luck". YOU created your protection by prudent planning and decisions.

I fully agree that a different time and different situation the pandemic would have had severe implications. It is not my fault that, in my 60's, I have lucked my way in to a secure position that protects me from the likes of the current situation. 

3 minutes ago, Mama Noodle said:

 

Good thing the virus didn't hit you when you were deciding between food and a packet of fags, otherwise you'd be singing a different tune. 

Luck, not your exceptional ethics, spared you from the brunt of this pandemic. 

Absolutely wrong.

Just now, Lacessit said:

Point taken. I can't see too many people being beneficiaries of the virus.

Indeed - and do have huge sympathy for many people who's lives have been devastated by this. 

It gives me no satisfaction to say that I am one of the few beneficiaries of the virus...... in all honesty I wish that were not the case.