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An example: My Thai son owns 2 blocks of land (adjoining) in a modern gated village not far from CM city centre, with a large house across the 2 plots. Chanut is in my son's name. (Deliberately in his name only because his wife's older brothers and sisters make continuous comments that if my son dies the property must go, by law, to his wife and they will insist she transfers ownership to her elder siblings). Son has a will bequeathing the property equally / jointly to all his children, wife deliberately not mentioned. Son's wife quite happy with this arrangement because she's frightened of her elder bro & sis and fears they would pressure her (and they would) to give the property to them. Reality is that I gave my son the land and house as a wedding gift and my son and his wife promised they would provide a roof over my head and care for me until my death. To protect me and the kids my son put a usufruct on the chanut. The usufruct: - Is valid/cannot be changed whilst I am living unless I generate the change and sign to approve the change with several witnesses, including my now 18 yo granddaughter (who has been harrassed several times by her aunts and uncles; most recently tried to convince her to stop uni and give the uni tuition fees to them. She hates them). - Property cannot be sold without my written/winessed approval regardless of whether my son is alive or deceased. About 4 years go my son went with local trusted lawyer to local LTO to discuss the above with LTO manager who agreed all possible and legal. Son went ahead and added the usufruct. Son's brother in law and sister in law know that something has been added to the chanut but my son totally refuses to let them see the chanut.

"... seeing cultural comparatives as competition. " What does that mean. Seems to me that rampant manic capitalism, strongly encouraged in many countries is a main driver of the rich get richer and the poor get poorer situation* and which increases 'the gap', which is part of why I believe in a mixed system: - Selected socialist policies: health care, education etc. - Controlled capitalism. One e.g. China clamped down on Jack Ma and his massively wealthy companies because they were getting too rich. China wants to see much more spread of the wealth. *Globalization was touted as 'the great leveler.' In reality it made the gap bigger.

If revolution not necessaily colour revolution. Times have changed, youngsters are looking for serious worthwhile change with focus on equality, different to the red / yellow days.

But I suggest it was easy enough to misinterpret!

Read your post again. I suggest some folks (repeat some folks), including me, would assume you were making a negative comment about obama being elected. Thanks for clarifying that my interpretation of your post was wrong.

From Wikipedia, re ownerhip of Bkk Post (Post publishing): "Major shareholders in Post Publishing include the Chirathivat family (owners of Central Group), the South China Morning Post of Hong Kong and GMM Grammy Pcl, Thailand's biggest media and entertainment company."

So you bailed because of colour?

Not necesssarily, perhaps the other 'owners' had given him the authority (power of attorney) to sell the shares on behalf of all the family owners?

Nice logical comment, thanks. What makes me laugh is the various criticisms about China etc., being a dictatorship, some would even say communist dictatorship all showing total ignorance, but in reality some in the US are now so vocal about abortion / remove all books with words like gay from the school library. Whatever happened to basic human rights' freedom to make own decisions, freedom of speech etc., (but not if it causes violence etc.). As above 'nice comments' and thanks for sharing.

For me it's fai dup.

Yawn...

Me too, 35+ years ago when 'woke' was considered to be normal sensible common sense thinking, attitudes and behaviors.

Several time I've used EMS to send several envelopes of documents and one case of 2 cardboard tubes of X rays from Chiang Mai to Hobart in Autralia. Most times I discovered the envelopes were waiting for pick up at Hobart GPO and the gov't agency advised, within 48 hrs of despatched from CM. Others cases within 72 hrs. No complaints from me re Thai Post.

And close to zero theft of gold chains and close to zero violence. And friendly helpful polite locals.

An attempt to make negative / insulting incorrect anti-gay comment. FAILED!

Copied from above, this is also my understanding re abstain (checked by google search). " When someone confirms that they are abstaining from voting, it means they are voting neither for nor against the motion at hand. They are nevertheless taking part in the election through expressing neither approval nor disapproval for a particular candidate, party or motion."

If a senator abstains is that taken as a YES vote?

Well a very long time ago my famiy was the first in our street to get a fridge, my grandmother scolded my parents for wasting money on something that's just a fad that will never last.

Sure but check that the person/company etc., giving the advice is qualified in this area of the law, highly knowledgeable and experienced in this area of the law.

Who offers who?

Missing the point??

"I'm working on having us make wills that specifically detail what is to happen with the property." However it can only happen if it's within Thai law. The will cannot override the limits allowed by Thai law.

Not always true. If the contract to build the house is in the name of the foreigner and signed by the foreigner than he/she owns the house and this can be recorded on the chanut.

And carriage of my wheelchair free.

Good point, doing ti 'solo' could work however: - In all counries there are some rules involved - The rules e.g. re executors / beneficiaries are quite different / opposing country by country. - 'Solo' writers should beware of writing sentences/paragraphs which can be interpreted diferently. - 'Solo' writers should beware of saying something in one paragraph which clashes with what's in another paragraph. If this went to a court for granting of probate when the party died it would be thrown out. The judge would NOT guess what the writer wanted. - In Thailand many amphur offices offer help to write wills, an amphur officer sits with the will writer and 'guides' writing the will. I'm aware of an instance where this became a disaster: Young man (my Thai nephew) and his wife decide to use this service. they go to amphur office. Amphur officer says it's the law of Thailand that the young man must bequeat 100,000Baht to his mother in law, and more. Young man doubts the MIL clause is a law, calls an old uni buddy who is now a lawyer. Lawyer checks, calls back and says 'no such law'. Lawyer goes with the young man & his wife to the amphur office for the next appointment; lawyer asks the amphur lady to show him this law in a gov't publication, she can't but insists it's the law. Lawyer tells her she should not be saying things like this if she can't prove there's a law. Amphur lady then says 'but I think it's a nice idea'! Amphur senior officer comes into the discussion and asks what the problem is. Young man explains, snr. officer says 'but she's just trying to help you'. Lawyer tells snr officer & amphur lady they are breaking the law and he will report them to the Thailand law council and the interior ministry. Lawyer says 'please come to my office I will write wills for both parties (young man and his wife) for no charge. Young man scoops up all that's already been written by the amphur lady, takes it home and destroys it. A few days later lawyer has completed both wills.