prakhonchai nick

£1,000 usually seconds...£5.000 probably tomorrow. £`10,000 likely 2/3 days and anything more can take 3/4 days.

If you have a Will, you can leave your assets to whoever you wish. The 800,000baht will go to whoever you name in your will. Might need a lawyer to obtain Thai probate though.

Perhaps someone with more time than me could provide a list of all hotels and other interests this man has in Thailand, so that we expats can avoid them, and advise our visiting friends and relatives to do the same.

That was not the point. It was a male as opposed to a female and any other information about said person was irrelevant. Treat everyone the same...........kathoeys too!

The driving offence was committed by a male person. That is sufficient informatin. 2 people sadly died and another critically injured.The male driver was speeding and drunk! That's all the police, courts etc need to know .He should have been sentenced accordingly, and indeed everyone should know that under similar circumstances they would receive the same punishment. Doctor, rich man, politician, or someone even higher should be irrelevant! One crime the same punishment!

Sad but true!

Less than 2months till New Year and the road carnage that always goes with it. A proper government would immediately (years too late) introduce a ban on all the things mentioned above. Everyone involved in law breaking, from the drivers to the passengers would receive immediate imprisonment, and drivers would be banned for life. Have a TV blitz - every night on the hour, starting at 8pm! If you know the rules and break them, you know what the punishment will be.

Does anyone really believe more than a handful of super rich, super crazy foreigners are going to invest 40 million baht for 3 years to enable them to buy a measly 1 rai of land? I don't believe its something for the politicians, or anyone else to worry about.

Caught in the act. Top him immediately! Murder deserves death!

The point was that originally he didn't want the wife to have the UK assets. After the wife raisied a stink he is giving her the UK house. One of the conditions of making/remaking a Will is that the the person is of sound mind. One must assume the solicitor is satisfied he is. Sorry for the daughter who it seems will end up with nothing.

Sorry to hear of the new probems with the Thai Wife. Doesn't she have enough properties in Thailand to live in? Your Dad says she needs the UK house to live in after obtaining citizenship. Has that been applied for.? If not living permanently in the UK, unlikely it will be granted. Not something that is granted overnight! Even widows I have helped here in Thailand who had citizenship, have no desire to live in the UK after the death of their husbands.

Does anyone know whether a beneficiary (usually a wife husband or partner) can be named on a savings account, so that upon death the money automatically transfers to the beneficiary. Have recently been advised that someone has this from Kasikorn, but my earlier enquiries suggested it was not possible. Then only way to avoid Thai probate after death would appear to be a joint account. It does however seem to be common practice in the US.