LukKrueng

5 years is a long time in the future. Any information you get more might not be relevant in 5 years.

I don't know anything about Mac's operating system, but windows always had (and still have) a problem with memory release of closed apps. The longer you keep it on, the slower it gets. I used a notebook. If I go away for a short time I put it in sleep mode. If longer such as overnight o put it on hibernate mode. But every now and then, when I feel it's getting slow I turn it off at night. As for restart after update - I don't usually do it as soon as an update is available, but pretty much when I want to turn it off anyway.

WHY???

It's a blue book for me, and no. My name was added to the book at the district office soon after I bought the unit even though I didn't actually live there, and back then there was no tax collection as far as I can remember. My 2nd visit to the district office was about 5 years ago to remove my name from the book after I was registered in another province. When I bought the 2nd unit I never got the blue book from the seller who claimed he lost it. I never bothered to get a new book for that unit.

The land office has nothing to do with house book (yellow or blue) and AFAIK they have nothing to do with the tax. I have 2 units in BKK. I used to be registered in one of them but moved out about 5 years ago. There are 2 names registered in that house book now. Last week I got the bill for the tax - only for the other unit which no one is registered as living in. I never took the blue book to the land office to register anything with them.

Best thing is to have your wife write a will leaving you the property and all her belongings. The fact that you don't know if any relatives doesn't mean there aren't any distant relatives that might appear later in life. If your wife goes before you, as was mentioned already, the court will give you 12 months to sell the property to a Thai person. At that point you either sell and move out, or come to an agreement with the buyer to lease you the property for 30 years. You could also find someone you trust and transfer the ownership to their name and put a lease on it. As for owning the house without the land - no so easy. The land has a title deed (chanot). The house has no such thing. In some cases of property developed by a company (developers) they separate the house from the land by issuing 2 chanots - one for the land and one for the house. I've never heard of any individual who managed to do so on a single plot with a house on it. Many people would argue that if the building permit was given under your name that means the house is yours. Not true. No chanot = no ownership.

Is there legal prostitution in Pattaya??

Seriously? Is this the best way to describe it?

well, if he is your son and you were married to the mother when he was born then you should have legal guardianship over him WITH the mother and both of you should have been asked to sign. So they probably f*cked up.

I never discuss my girlfriends with my daughter not with my wife!

Sure, great idea. Every Thai person that goes to the district office always get a lawyer to speak for them. Not.

My replay was to someone who asked how could your daughter get a passport without the ID card, not about her situation now. As for now, I think she could renew her Thai passport at the Thai Embassy in the US without an ID card as she was never issued one, and you can't get a first ID card or of Thailand. I really don't understand why she has problems getting the card, unless she's under 20 and then both parents have to sign for it. My daughter got her 1st ID card when she was 16. She would have delayed it further but we had to renew her passport and as she was over 15 she needed the card (we live in Thailand fill time). As far as I remember all we had to show was her birth certificate. Both her mom and I were present. They charged 20 BAHT for the card and another 20 or 40 for being 1 year late....

It is now. Wasn't in 2008, so OP's daughter could get the passport to leave Thailand back then with no problems. My reply was to someone who wondered how she could get a passport without the ID

Back in 2008 you could (and had to) get an ID card only at age 15. AFAIK now you can get the card at age 6. Children under that age can still get a passport, so no, she didn't have to have an ID in order to get a passport.

PR holders can, and actually supposed to go through the Thai side, but not the auto gates

It must be the red Isuzu fault. Otherwise they wouldn't have single it out and naming its colour!

Same things happened and happen when there's a big demand for cash and ATMs run out of cash. Last week I had to try 3 locations to find cash, this morning the machine ran out of 100's and 500's and all I could withdraw was on thousands. Better go back to the old system of barter.

By "visa" accounts I meant the account with the 400k or 800k you use to extend your permit of stay, not visa as in the visa credit\debit cards

You don't have to be in Thailand if you have roaming services opened. But you have to do the initial setup with your Thai SIM internet connection and not over wi-fi. Just disconnect from wi-fi, open SIM data (on the Thai SIM) and you should be able to set it up. Once setup completed you can use it over wi-fi

The real question is why did he have to renew the card right now when he can't even leave home?

Just try to imagine what would have happened if he'd say he likes the smell of a good f*rt after a good somtam....

AFAIK "visa" bank accounts must be personal and not joint accounts, so what you wrote is irrelevant. A personal account must not be touched without a court order once the owner dies. A person with access to the account might be able to withdraw money BEFORE the bank is notified of the owner's death, but it is no legal and the person who withdrew the money will be in trouble once the bank realises what happened.

1. They might have moved in during this year. 2. As up until la at year it was illegal so many smoked it in ways that no one will notice. 3. Again, up until last year it wasn't a daily issue everywhere so you might have smelt it and just didn't notice. 4. There's no such thing as weed addict. It is not physically addicting.

Is this what they told you at the Embassy? AFAIK all Thai nationals must issue the ID card when they turn 15. However they can get an ID card from as early as 6 years old. They might have changed the law though.

True. I see it the same way. But obviously those who have them think differently.