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Since your not married buy in her name and have her grant you a usufruct on property till end of life. Cost only a couple hundred baht to register on chanote and no tax payments required.

Make sure you do purchase and usufruct during same visit to land office.

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Because there are other shareholders whoever claims the estate of deceased can take over the investment provided it has court approval.

Below is list of taxes due at land office at time of transfer.

Transfer fee - 2% of assessed value.

Stamp duty - 0.5% of sale price. Paid only if owned over 5 years.

Special Business Tax - 3.3% of sale price. Paid only if owned less than 5 years.

Withholding Tax - progressive rate on assessed value.

OP why don't you read through reply #11. A parent cannot act as legal representative of minor for propose you propose without court approval.

I seem to recall having to sign the usufruct that wife granted me and this fact alone would prevent minor from entering into such an agreement without approval of his legal representative.

Remember a usufruct is a legal binding contract.

I think not but you can read section from civil code and decide for yourself.

Section 21. For the doing of a juristic act, a minor must obtain the consent of his legal

representative. All acts done by him without such consent are voidable unless otherwise

provided.

I have been using Bangkok Bank branch located on Sukhumvit between Soi 8 and Soi 10 for many years without problems and only speaking English.

If the mother in-law was legal owner of the land when you were granted a usufruct you should not have a problem.

I also must say the wording used by the OP describing his situation leaves me confused.

As Mario says ask the Thai Embassy and see what they say. I think the next best option with quickest results would be contact a lawyer in Thailand and have them obtain a copy of your birth certificate from the Amphur office in the district you were born in Thailand. All the info lawyer needs should be on the translation.

i also had the idea to get some chlorine from the kind they add to swimming pools....

You could also use a solution of regular Clorox and water.

I have been using 3M Air Foam 2 in 1 Cleaner and Freshener the last couple years. I clean once a year and one can is big enough to do all three of my current units. Just follow the directions on the can.

You can find in Lotus, Home Pro and most likely Big C.

Send GBP and have the conversion to baht done in Thailand. Better exchange rate in Thailand.

I'll be applying next year.

I haven't lived in the US for ten years, but maintain a mailing address (with a mailbox service) and all my accounts (bank, cc, etc) are there. I would prefer that the SS payments go into my US bank account.

Would I still have to go through the Manila office?

Yes you must use Manila office because you live in Thailand. My payments are made to US bank also.

It was a simple process, unless changed, I started with email to Manila three months prior to birthday I became eligible. A few simple questions and information passed via emails and then phone interview scheduled on certain date/time when they call you. They also inform you the date your bank will receive first payment during phone interview.

Go to the following website and read section titled "Partly foreign owned Thai real estate holding company".

http://www.samuiforsale.com/knowledge/inheritance-laws-thailand.html#3

For those interested Google "Thailand migration report 2011" and read the pdf file. Its a couple years out of date but it does put numbers on different categories of foreigners staying in Thailand. It was generated by International Organization for Migration (IOM) with data provided by immigration. Most of the data was for the period late 2009 and early 2010.

Here are numbers for just a few of the categories from one of the charts.

Professional, skilled and semi-skilled workers

• Foreigners with work permits 100,338

• Diplomats and officials 6,148

Other temporary stay

• Stay with Thais 14,946

• Stay with Thai wife 11,381

• Stay with resident families 1,098

• Retirement 28,509

• Others (including medical treatment and study) 65,175

Below site has number of contracts including one for house/land sale/purchase that you can download. Your friend may need to tweak so it meets his requirements.

http://www.samuiforsale.com/category/downloads.html

Have just installed 64 bit desktop version of Ubuntu 12.04 on HDD that already has Windows 7 (64 bit) installed. I installed it on free disk space that I partitioned during installation process of Ubuntu. I've updated Ubuntu with the latest updates and turned on the ufw firewall. Now I have a few question since I have no experience with linux systems but have a desire to migrate off Windows.

One more detail about my situation. My internet access is through wired LAN network at my condo building. Don't know number of computers on system but there are only 63 units in building. Do not know if valid test but I tried Shields UP test located at www.grc.com and it cannot access my computer.

With the ufw firewall active do I need to be concerned with anyone in the building being able to access my system or even see my HDD when I am running Ubuntu?

Is the Windows NTFS partition visible to anyone when I run Ubuntu? I have a good software firewall when running Windows.

Are there other precautions I should take to protect my system from intrusion?

When I installed Ubuntu four partitions were created (boot, root, home and swap) because the procedure I used set it up that way. Do you really need to have four partitions when installing Ubuntu or can it be done with fewer?

On site below scroll down to dog eye problem section and see if any photo's match problem you see.

http://www.organic-pet-digest.com/ask-a-vet-online-library.html#dogeyeproblems

You can also Google search for "vet Pattaya" and then pick one close to your location.

I go to Dr. Tapasit Prapawiwat at Studio Smile.

Prices I believe might be slightly higher than other clinics around town but cannot fault quality of facility or service.

Check website and decide for yourself.

http://www.studiosmilethailand.com/

I was named executor in wife's will and and it passed no problems with the court when she died last year. I had no major issues dealing with bank or land office with court papers in hand and me named as executor.

I am going to be more astute in trying to maintain 30 psi though as I have been to trusting on letting others maintain pressure.

Never rely on a local to insure your tire pressures are correct. After leaving car dealer after service more times than not I find my tires with 40 psi when 30 psi front and 29 psi rear is recommended by manufacturer.

Locals also seem to have the same problem of over inflating motorcycle tires. Recently in for 1000 km service at dealer and when complete I started to ride off and within 20 feet noticed something not right and knew it was the tires. Jumped off and pulled out my tire gauge and check front and rear. Front calls for 25 psi and rear 35 psi but they had 50+ psi in front and rear. My gauge only goes up to 50 psi so could not read exact pressure.

As I understand things after you have applied and received extension based on retirement your wife and child would be able to obtain extension as your dependents provided they meet following:

(1) The alien has obtained a temporary visa (NON-IM);

(2) Proof of family relationship;

(3) In the case of a spouse, the marital relationship shall be dejure (legitimate) and de facto; or

(4) In the case of a child, adopted child or child of his/her spouse, the said person must not be married, must be living with the family, and must be less than 20 years of age

If you die your wife would no longer be allowed to remain in Thailand as dependents on your extension. If over 50 she could apply for extension for purpose of retirement provided she meets requirements. The child once it reaches 20 years of age can no longer remain as dependent and would have to leave.

It sounds like you are the one that purchased land and adjacent property owners had already built additions that violated the law. If you saw this problem before purchase why did you buy?

Below is section that covers you particular problem. It is from the Property section of Thailand civil code.

Section1341. The owner of an immovable property must not construct roofs or other structures which cause rain water to fall upon the adjoining property.

You can try or have the local headman talk with them about the problem and the fact they violated the law by building additions.

Next option would be take the issue up with Land office but I doubt they will be of much help but who knows.

Last solution would be to take them to court and you would most likely win because they are in violation of the law. I guess it would depend how many years the violation has existed.

If it were me I would propose they build a new wall at their cost, pay you compensation for lost land and pay cost of updating chanote's at the land office. If you don't mind losing a bit property.

Regardless you will create many enemies and do not take any destructive actions or you will be the one in court.

I have no need for a large displacement bike and instead would like to see something in the style of the CL 350 I owned back in the 1970's when I lived in Thailand. Something in the 250-400 cc range but NOT in the CBR 250 style.

OP have you thought about getting a right of superficies in your favor for the house you will build. Its my understanding that under Thai law it legally creates separate ownership. Properly written up you would be protected without needing a usufruct.