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Just from experience dealing with my late Mothers estate in both Ireland and Australia. Both witnesses had pre-deceased her and it was quite a chore to get death certificates for them as the probate court required either their current addresses or proof that they were real people who were at one time acquainted with my parents.

Having been an expat for a large portion of my working life I have done quite a lot of research into this subject. Probate and inheritance laws are different in every country and in some cases different jurisdictions within the same country for example Jersey has a different set of laws to the rest of UK. If you asks a lawyer for advice on this subject you are unlikely to get any clear answers. You will be given the options that will make them the most money. In my experience these complex laws are conjured up to keep lawyers in business hence this whole arbitrary set of rules. Following my research my deductions are as follows. If you have assets in multiple countries the ultimate answer is to place them all in an international trust however this can be quite expensive as far as set up and administration costs go. The second option is to have a valid will for each country and jurisdiction in which you hold assets. Whilst cumbersome this is the route I have gone down including a will drawn up by a Thai lawyer, translated and attested. To rationalize things a bit I am in the process of consolidating all of my assets into just two jurisdictions. On a positive note if one’s assets and distribution wishes are not complex western countries mostly have a number of online will drafting services available and generally one only needs to have the will witnessed by two independent witnesses who are not beneficiaries. If you go down this route to save your heirs some serious headaches make sure that the witnesses are likely to be easily located or traced should probate be required. Ideally unless one wants to be a benefactor then the total sum of all assets should be zero on our last day on earth which would nullify this whole process, however seeing that none of us know when that day is it’s quite hard to plan for.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast_Asia_Treaty_Organization Didn’t work last time and certainly won’t go down well with the big brother in Beijing. Perhaps the Admiral is not too strong on history or geography. I can see the Philippines going for the idea though.

This is all getting a bit silly now. Yes the Swiss guy is a fool and deserves what’s coming to him but to surrender to the thinly veiled xenophobia that permeates Thai society is a sad display of the lack of emotional maturity at all levels. Whilst Srettha is trying to calm things down a bit as he is a reasonably well educated man and realizes the greater financial implications all the other publicity seeking clowns are jumping on the band wagon. Deputy P.M Anutin, the Phuket governor and all his acolytes all lining up to have a pop at foreigners who all appear to have been tarred with the same brush. If Big Joke wasn’t under a cloud and needing to keep a low profile whilst his own storm blows over I’m sure he would be front and center in this whole sorry mess. We all know that there are a large number of foreigners in Thailand that would have difficulty passing background checks in most countries but the majority of us are just law abiding citizens who jump through all the hoops to make a life for ourselves in Thailand and contribute significantly to the economy. Maybe it’s time for another “superstar” to mysteriously fall in a river to shift the public’s minute attention span to the next big story.

Cameron is a proud Scottish name. Just put an extra O and you have Cameroon. They could be ex army. Black Watch methinks 🤣

Very nice durians. Couldn’t tell from the pics if they were organic, local produce or the Korean ones that the net idols like.