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It's a sad indication of the standards that some schools apply just to save money.

How can you be a head teacher without extensive knowledge of education?? Maybe he should get a "life experience" Phd in education??

Think that statement says more about you then the OP...

Actually it means I can spot possible warning signs having seen them before.....

Even if the girl in question was of the same nationality/social class/education as the OP, it would STILL be not very likely to succeed!

Let's look at the factors against:

1) He met her online

2) Family are poor

3) She speaks very little English

4) He speaks very little Thai

5) She's a student who didn't even graduate yet

6) Possible age gap

7) Differences in levels of eduction

8) Cultural differences with a "Bahn Nork" girl

Chances are slim to zero

Chances of being taken to the cleaners in this situation = 95%

It's normal practice at many companies and absolves a company of legal responsibility for any subsequent actions by an ex-employee by giving notice.

It does not mean that there has to be any scandal....

In the UK if I marry again, whatever I own now is classed as mine even if I divorce. Whatever monies / property is acquired after the marriage is split 50/50.

That is (partly) true, but problems can arise where say you own a house with a mortgage but have not paid it off and then your wife moves in with you and contributes to the mortgage or the house in some way. The wife can then claim part ownership of the house based on a constructive trust and could be entitled to a share of the house. If you own the property outright then this is not a problem but if you don't and you let her contribute even in an indirect way (by raising kids which enabled you to work full time, there could be a claim)

The best way for both parties is to check the property together when it's time to vacate, obviously the landlord should retain a reasonable amount to cover any bills (until they arrive and can be paid) with the left over cash being returned to the tenant.

Why is the Thai press not following up on this story??

Far too much hearsay and comments that are not based on any legal facts on this thread.

e.g. There is no common law (relationship) status in law i.e. the idea of a common law spouse does not exist!Cohabiting couples living together for a period of time do not acquire the same rights as married couples, it's a total myth.

There are questions you need to answer, one of the most important being: do you have children?

But you also need to think about a lot of other factors: Do you have your own business? Does she work? Is she totally reliant on you? Do you have a pension?

She might be entitled to half the assets accrued during the course of the marriage (this can include part of your pension). She might be entitled to certain rights but you need proper legal advice

Talk to a lawyer who deals with divorce law and good luck.

The thing is that you can talk about anything just by using irony and imply the oposite of what you mean so how the hel_l are they going to police these sites (especially the sites in English)

e.g. John Doe is a really really really good person who never ever has any problems at all and his theory is not all complete balderdash at all, not at all, not in any way, shape or form.

Stifling criticism in the long run is more dangerous than the criticism itself.

Normally (and this is true for many jurisdictions), assets you bring to amarriage are not considered part of a subsequent divorce settlement i.e. they can only take into account assets accrued during the lifetime of the marriage.

Yes I am afraid it is. However, the court might in a divorce case consider the existence of a prenuptial agreement and weigh that into its decision when the ruling is made. Hence, even under the English law it could be useful to have a prenup although one can never be assured how the court will rule should worse come to worse.

A pre-nup could always have persuasive authority in court, and they can and have been recognized in courts. To say they are not recognized (from a legal viewpoint) is just not true. Just make sure that there is no sign of duress and that your partner has competent legal advice as to what they are doing and you have a good chance of having the "fair" parts of a pre-nup enforced.

On an aside and as a legal academic, I would have also thought that if all the other requirements for contract law can be proved (consideration, intention to create legal relations, etc), that a pre-nup would be 100% binding.

For a recent case see Crossley V Crossley 2008 which is the most recent case that I know of relating to Pre-nups and English law. Pre-nups do seem to have some authority under common law.

Ms Crossley abandoned her claim after a judge gave strong weight to a "pre-nup" between them. Last December, Lord Justice Thorpe, in the Appeal Court, described Mrs Crossley's claim as a "paradigm case" for pre-nups, which are currently not binding in English law. Mrs Crossley, 50, finally dropped her claim on the eve of a High Court hearing scheduled to take place yesterday.

"This case could well change opinion in the courts that pre-nups deserve greater legal recognition," said Mrs Dunn. "Such agreements are no longer considered to be the preserve of the "super rich". As more people get remarried and younger professionals marry later there is a greater demand for pre-nups to protect finances."

Under the English law prenuptial agreements are not recognized.

This is not 100% true

The point is I am sure that not everyone agrees with the orginal no comment observation and many of the points outlined could be picked apart without much effort. The danger IMHO is that of stifling debate and only hearing one side of the story without having the full facts and without taking into account conflicting opinions. Personally I find that if the issue has merit, examination of it with all contrary opinions actually makes the original issue stronger, not weaker.

My point is (which you seem to miss) is that most Thais are already priced out in MOST places and they are priced out by OTHER THAIS!!!

Letting a few foreigners buying a couple of rai here and there for residential purposes or even (shock, horror) to establish a business would actually be good for the economy and bring in a lot of investment. If Thailand will implode if it does not embrace foreign investment or it will be overtaken by Vietnam, Laos, of even Cambodia/Burma.

Laws will have to be relaxed at some point and rightly so otherwise we should lobby all western governments to not allow Thais to own land or businesses in our respective countries.

if full ownership will be possible there would not be a 'few' foreigners but most if not all of the desirable places will be sold to foreigners, making it impossible in entire regions for Thais to live for normal prices.

Based on what evidence????

The vast majority of Thais cannot buy land in Bangkok and most foreigners would not want to buy land in deepest darkest Isaan! I think you are dreaming, not that many foreigners even want to buy land here but I don't see anything wrong with people who are married to a Thai or have kids with a Thai citizen wanting to put down some kind of roots to enable them to have some security in their lives.

So what you are saying is that all the desirable places are owned by some very rich Thai families and that's somehow justifies some kind of anti foreigner discrimination based on the fact that some Thais (actually most Thais) also cannot afford to buy it either!

Dream on, it will never happen. If it would it would be the deathstroke for many Thais who can not own anything anymore. The whole 'real estate' economy will be taking place outside Thailand bringing not a penny to the country. (Ok a little bit from transfer tax).

Most Thais are priced out by other Thais and those that can't afford to buy will probably never be able to afford to buy.

Letting a few foreigners buy some bits and pieces will make no difference to them!

There are loads of places down Thonglor. We used one called Dton Rak and they were quite good but not exactly cheap!

Mind you, you get what you pay for IMHO.

I am not an English subject, but it would appear that the Government in England does this very thing.

You are badly informed.

You have the House of Lords....that are inherited, or appointed

Is subordinate to the will of the commons and the House of Commons can force through anything they want with the Parliament Acts. Parliament is soveriegn in all respects.

America founded democracy but limited the vote to land owning males...

Actually they didn't...

there is nothing sacrosanct about 1 vote for every person.

Yes there is, it's called political legitimacy

Newbies have as much right to articulate in this forum as you do warriors. No PPP affiliation, just a view different from yours. The notion that with an older join date at Thai Visa somehow begets you the only realistic POV is amazingly ignorant...I don't take sides particularly... but even at the surface, what PAD is doing and their method is not going to benefit anybody... step back and get some perspective

Agreed.

I am no supporter of Thaksin or Samak but this situation is more like a revolt than a protest.

As far as I can see the PAD is anti-democracy and are complaining that the wrong party won. That's the problem with a democracy, you have to follow who/what party was elected and they can't handle that.

As far as government corruption and populist polices etc are concerned, you could argue that all governments everywhere are corrupt (to a certain extent) and all governments follow populist policies otherwise they would never get elected.

No but he should be entitled to one month's notice of termination and the salary for that month (even if the school choose to rlease him earlier). This will be in the contract and should apply as there is no probationary period defined. Severance pay (which most people confuse with pay given for the notice period in cases of instant termination would not be given in this case, as stated above)

Why does the school employ such detritus.

I have to ask whether the salaries means that is all they can attract?

OK so now we all know we can lump everything related to Thais and Thailand into one simple phrase and it won't matter what it is because there is not bad intent in the words we use. Glad we cleared that up.

From now on we will refer to Thais as orientals or maybe we should call them Lao or Cambodians just because we can't be bothered to be more accurate or more appropriate. What about "rice monkeys" or "noodle <deleted>", would these all be nice words to use?

In time you'll be ashamed you ever used the word farang....

Would you like the 60 million or so people of Thailand to stop using a word that has been in their language for 100's of years because a few farang get their knickers in a twist because they "don't like the word".

So it's ok if we still use the word "nigger" then too? That's an old word too. What about "golliwog", that's also quite an old word. I find your argument weak and shallow that you can condone the use of a certain epithet just because it is old....

I'm not upset being called as a hooker, bcos i'm NOT. And i dnt care what people say or think about me.

as long as they are not willing to kill me or something.

I can deal with - "Thai girls are hookers" ...

i cant stop them to think like that

Farang is not as rude as hooker.

Farang is just an usual word. unlike hooker

Do i still have to teach u english ?

U call every thais u met as hookers?

I'd suggest u to call us as s*lut much better!

You are obviously not very good at thinking about things.

You said "farang" can be used positively but many of us object to it and think it is negative in meaning. That should be enough for you to understand how we feel and stop using it but you don't and continue to use it.

I used the word "hooker" to illustrate the way that we can generalize and how it is done in a very negative way and YOU took great offence to it. This shows what a hypocritical attitude you have.

Can you not understand that some of us don't like this word???? Is your brain so fixed and small that you cannot understand that some of us object to be called this word and that we find it offensive?

Can't you understand that people don't need to divide the human race into categories and that in the end we are all people not farangs, niggers, wops, gringos, chinks etc

yeh call me hooker. thailand is famous for prostitution

and what did u say bfor? your WIFE is also thai aite ?

uh .. why dnt u call her a hooker too ?

AT least thai people dnt call u Loser or a--hole... of course we DO respect u as u are also a human living in this crap world.

i know u dnt like... and i just told u that FARANG doesnt mean anything. and it is NOT racist

most of foreigners here in thailand can deal with it...

or go tell yr mummy

and Did u know .. HOOKER is def worse much more than Farang...

The difference is that I don't generalize, I don't ever use the word "farang" just as I would never call a Thai a "hooker" because it's just as insulting IMHO.

It's interesting to see that you got just as upset as some of us do when YOU use the word farang just because I dared to generalize about Thais. Now you know how some of us feel. Please don't refer to us as farang and we will get along just fine.

couldnt agree more

someone is so western and dnt want to try to understand or accept any other cultures

How would you like it if people generalized about you?

OK so why don't we refer to you as a hooker then as in the perceptions of most of the world, Thailand is only famous for prostitution?

Would you feel that as a good way to refer to you? Would that be a positive affirmation you could live with?

I don't like the word farang and it looks like I am not the only one so why can't you just accept that we don't like it and perhaps refrain from using it. There are other words that can be used that we feel do not have such a negative meaning.