lelapin

I am looking for a good English speaking lawyer in Pattaya (preferably The Darkside) to prepare a will for my wife. Any recommendations?

Pattaya Mail have a weekly Dining Out column which reviews restaurants. Are they only allowed to publish those that get a good review. 

I am having a friend from the UK visit me next month and would like on some of the days to loan him my car. Would he be covered on my Thai car insurance to drive with a UK driving license.

1 hour ago, robertson468 said:

But getting no interest on 800K in Thai Bank is also a loss of income methinks!

I get more interest on that money in my Bangkok bank a/c than I would with my bank in Engalnd.

SaferVPN works fine for me

with BBC ITV and C4

About to sign up today  for NORDVPN @ $99.00 for 3 years - any comments

5 minutes ago, sumrit said:

Do you want to watch on a PC/Laptop or an android device?

Laptop

I am looking for a  VPN for one device  that will allow me to access and stream BBC ITV Channel 4 in the UK and which is easy to install, easy to use and is reasonably priced. Also offer me good support if I have a problem.

I am currently using SaferVPN which is very erratic with speeds and availablity.

Any suggestions,

I need to replace an oven hood. Any ideas where to buy one in Pattaya and a person who could install it.

10 minutes ago, Stradavarius37 said:

Lol. 75 v 50. Much ado about nothing.

Sent from my SM-N920C using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app
 

Clearly you haven't been travelling on the roads of Thailand very much.

Not everybody sits at home every night watching TV with their girl friends.

7 minutes ago, giddyup said:

Someone here recommended Alisa 0834173550 office on Nern Plubwan. Charges about 7000 baht for a will.

Thanks. Will give them a call

I want to make a simple will here and wondered if anyone can recommend a lawyer in Pattaya on The Darkside.

2 minutes ago, LannaGuy said:

 She can hardly sign the PoA if she's DEAD can she?  Usufuct is that you get full 'fruits' of the house until YOU die.

Why can't the POA be the same date as the will. This is the situation with my UK will.

Why do I need to change my lease if I am now covered until I am 96.

Sorry if I am being thick but I do have senior moments.

Yes. All very helpful

Will Ok

Why does the POA need to be undated

What is Usufruct lifetime

I am 75 now so I imagine that a 20 year lease should see me through but the point re leaving the house to me with a year to sell it, was very useful. I could link that in with me stating in my will that I would then pass on part of the proceeds of the sale to her family.

Leading on from this then, is there a lawyer in Pattaya that anyone could recommend that would be fair and competent on this topic. 

I have explained that I have no worries about the house being sold by her next of kin as I have a lease for 20 years in my name. I said that I would like to sell the house after her death to raise some capital and could only possibly do this if she made the appropriate will.

It would be nice if some people read the comments in full (maybe 2 times) before they give inappropriate answers

.

I have protected occupation with my lease. But as I mentioned I would wish to move to somewhere smaller on her demise and turn some of that asset into cash.

I am 75 y.o. and have been living with my 50 y.o. girlfriend for more than 10 years. I bought a house 5 years ago worth about 8 million baht in her name but with me having a 20 year lease to cover any unforeseen situations arising.

In the likely event that I will leave this earth before her, everything will be fine and as I have no dependents in the UK, she can do with it as she wishes.

However if she passes on before me and I do not wish to stay in the house but instead move to somewhere smaller and turn that asset into cash I have a problem.

She is about to make a Thai will leaving her assets to her family based on the assumption that I will no longer be around on her demise.

Would it be possible for her to state in her will that on her death if I am still alive, the house will be sold and for example 2 million baht being given to her next of kin and the remainder to me. I would be willing to amend my Thai will to state that if she passes on before me, on my death all my Thai assets would go to her next of kin.

Death seems a very difficult thing for Thais to discuss as they see it as something very unlucky.

I use SaferVPN very successfully

Does anyone have experience of the new hospital in Siracha

Has anyone used the new hospital in Siracha and if so how was it.

Had radical prostatectomy at 57 in Harley St London by the no 1 Dr in Europe for prostate cancer. When I asked him what treatment he recommended he replied that if I were his father he would say have the prostate removed. But then of course he would say that  as he was a surgeon.

At 64 signs of the cancer returned and I required 30 zaps of radiotherapy. 

I am now 76, had 7 stents inserted last year, and still playing golf 2 times a week. One thing for sure if you are lucky enough to survive these problems when they come along, is that you certainly get in to perspective what is and isn't important in life. Somehow those  bad drives, missed putts and bad rounds of golf are not nearly as important as they used to be.

I had 7 stents inserted at Phyathai last year done over 2 visits. Only have good things to say about the quality of service I received from doctors and nurses.

Thanks guys for all your suggestions. Unfortunately although I had a 20 year career in data processing (IT)  that was many years ago and I think that my 76 year old brain would struggle to carry out your advice. The TMN engineer is calling tomorrow  and if he suggests a new router from them I think I will go along with it. As someone mentioned that although theirs may not be the best at the lowest price they will install it free.

Of course since I submitted the post my internet connection has been working perfectly  - very fast 21 mbps and no down time - . I think that's called sod's law.

2 hours ago, KittenKong said:

 

TMN usually terminate their domestic fibre with a router like this:

 

which they sell for a couple of thousand Baht.

 

If they didnt supply one of those then they will have given you a smaller ethernet fibre modem which presumably you are connecting to your TPLink with an ethernet cable. A picture of it would help.

 

If the engineer has told you that your router is faulty then he is probably correct. Depending on how it is set up you may be able to connect your PC directly to the fibre modem with an ethernet cable, thus bypassing your router. If that is fast and reliable then you have isolated the problem and you need a new router, or your old one needs looking at. Routers dont really have a fixed lifetime but I wouldnt be very surprised if one become unreliable after 4 years, though it is usually the modem or wifi parts that fail first. Yours is a fairly cheap model.

If there is no improvement when connected directly to the TMN modem then you will know that it is probably the service/line that is faulty.

 

I tried TMN fibre once and found it very slow outside of Thailand, so I ditched it. However fibre should be very reliable even if the ISP is slow. When testing speed you can only expect to get the maximum provided by your package to servers within Thailand.