Delight

In the condo building the walls-between apartments- are as follows:

My side 10cm

Their side 10cm

Air gap in between 10cm.

This design does a reasonable -but not perfect job

Why not simply open another account based on your home country

You will need credit card registered in your home country.

I have such an account -my registered address with both Ebay and Paypal is my Thai address

As far as I can remember the measurement between 2 buildings is one meter on either side of the boundary line.

2 meters if the walls have windows in them.

 The condo is hers-plain and simple.

She will have to provide  letters from the Juristic Manager to detail :

1) The ratios of Foreign/Thai ownership. They need to be in order .Max 49% foreign

2) That the condo is debt free.

The land office will not do the transfer without these documents.

 You will have to organize probate  in the UK for UK assets.

Whatever his Will states -then that will happen.

You just need a  UK  probate lawyer -plus the Will and the death certificate. Maybe more.

As far as Thailand is concerned -then again probate is required.

The  Thai probate department will -I suspect -decide that his Thai wife gets the lot.

You state that you are happy with this arrangement.

For her to pursue probate in Thailand -then I suspect -that  a   2nd original  death certificate is required.

Suggest that you select a UK based  Probate Lawyer-ASAP. That person could advise you on this possibility. 

For certain a UK death certificate -with an official translation is essential.

Suggest that you speak to a Thai Consulate for advice on the official translation  point.

Without this  death certificate and official translation -then his wife will end up empty handed.

That is  very bad situation.

 I suspect -inline with a Thai companies controlled by a foreigner -you will own -in your case 48% of the shares and 100% of the voting rights. It is the latter that counts. 

If that were not the case then the other 2 Thai shareholders could out vote you with their combined 52 % of the shares.

Can you will voting rights to another? I have no idea. Specialized help is required by you. You need to know.

The regular way is for the transfer of your 48% and your 100% to a foreign family member. Very easy and very cheap. 

If you wish to be certain that your Thai friend has control -then transfer the house to him . Very simple -can be expensive. Then close down the Thai company-expensive. Given that your Thai friend has no involvement with the company -then probably you could ignore the ' close down the Thai company'  part-maybe.

Did you receive a 'reminder' from immigration?

Have you prior received a 'reminder' ?

 The only hope for the UK economy is an export boom

Maybe this sterling devaluation was engineered to create this opportunity.

Very Risky.

1 hour ago, Lite Beer said:

You are clearly not from UK.

Sterling is plummeting against the mighty Baht

 

Suspect that the UK government wants this general devaluation-in the hope that  it produces and export boom.

Risky strategy

I can see that a property overseas(i.e.land) can be integrated into an overseas company-i.e this assumes that the company  is registered in the same country as the land of the property.

I cannot see that 2 countries can be involved.

As a matter of interest-which overseas country are you referring to? 

The Chinese Government pay the shipping charges from China to Bangkok Airport

Some while ago I purchased 4 off special RF transmitters from the Chinese factory direct.

Each transmitter was $4 . Shipping  $24.

No help from Chinese Government for me.

The Power of Lazada is illustrated in the OP's example

 The simple  way is just to specify that your Thai assets go to your spouse. Your spouse needs to  be the administrator.

If you have a condo in your name-then ensure that your spouse (as the administrator) does not transfer to your spouse as beneficiary.

This way the condo is never in  a Thai name-thus much easier to sell at some later date.

The condo can remain in the administers name -until it is time to sell.

2 hours ago, DrJoy said:

 

* If have been married before, A copy of Divorce Certificate (khor lor 7) and a copy of d in Thailand

 

 

 

 

 

 

 I was divorced in the UK in 1989

I married a Thai national in 2014

Given this -do I still have to provide proof of my UK divorce?

On 8/30/2022 at 5:33 PM, Stocky said:

No, but only from habit. Shop at Big C Extra which used to be Carrefour, there and at Tops. Stuff I can't find in Hat Yai, like Yorkshire Tea, I order from Food Variety on Lazada. Things like sausages and the occasional  steaks  I order through Passion Delivery. 

Plenty of Yorkshire tea at:

https://www.britishcornershop.co.uk/#sqr:(q[yorkshir tea],sf188014[In Stock])

 I bought a Realme C35 for 1000 Baht

The product arrived in a box that just stated 'Smart phone'

These phones  are  designed for the Chinese market

No Google -No You Tube 

Ok for music and photos

The advert stated 8 Ram

In reality it was 1 Ram

Cannot access internal memory on PC

I did not want Smart phone -just the Smart bit.

As stated I only wanted music and photographs.

Can only load these items on external SD card. Which has to be loaded externally.

So the music is fine -assuming that I use external headphones and photographs OK

Battery charge is not good.

So for 1000 Baht -ok for me

A better buy is the Nokia 6.1 plus.

Pay around 2400  Baht

It does everything that you want and at  low cost

If the land is not under your or your friend's control -then the house will belong to ever ends up owning the house

My British friend died about 1 year ago. He died in a Pattaya Gov. Hospital

As Pattaya has no provision to store the deceased-it was shipped to Bangkok.

The body and the passport.

I advised his UK based family.

The British Embassy gave the case a number.

With that in place all relevant actions were available

British Embassy needs to be contacted

4 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

There have been no changes to the rules.

I suspect they just want to know more about the person you have the joint account with.

Can you think of a reason why they would want this info.?

1 hour ago, Pumpuynarak said:

Correct, i think the OP must be using the 65K monthly income method.

 That is correct -monthly money

Today I made my application for my retirement visa extension.  My local immigration office is at Jomtien.

This years application was identical to last years.

They were happy about the information that was provided by the bank which I use.

They were happy about everything except this time they wanted to see my wife's I.D. card.

This was because I bring my money into  a joint bank  account  i.e. my wife and I

I  successfully used this same joint account last year. No request  to view  any I.D. card.

I asked if there has been a change to the rules.

They simply repeated their demand to view my wife's I.D. card.

So my Q is -have the rules changed over the past 12 months?

17 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

As far as I know what you want to do is possible - if the legal situation is correct.

I.e. if there is a group of 5 building and they are one development (don't ask me for the legal term). Then, as far as I know, 2 out of 5 units could be sold to foreigners.

 How can you sell  a house when it does not have its own Chanote i.e no land.

If -and I can see that this  might be possible -the house has it's own Chanote -then it becomes a house with land. This cannot be acquired by a foreigner.

2 hours ago, Photoguy21 said:

That percentage is refers to the total number of condos for sale. i.e. if it has 100 condos 49 can be owned by foreigners

Not true-unless all the apartments are the exact same size.

The 49% refers to the space allocated in the Condo for apartments which can be sold to foreigners.

The remaining 51% cannot be sold to foreigners directly.

There is no segregation. If a foreigner gets in early when purchasing an apartment then he should secure in the 49%. That is 49% of total apartment area

The area within the building that is not occupied by apartments is typically referred to as Common Area i.e. corridors-stairs-lift(s)  admin. office etc.

2 hours ago, hotandsticky said:

 

 

No expert, just experienced.

 

There is no defined process, it is random. DWP rarely over pay more than one payment after death and there is always the periodic Life Certificate as a back stop.

 

1. I have outlined already.

2 It becomes irrelevant.

 

Consider some of the permutations:-

 

Brit dies, has state pension only - no other assets. ........ nothing to do except advise DWP.  IF the British embassy embassy are advised of the death there appears to be a mechanism for DWP to be informed. Unusual because there is no authority to do so, nor any connection between the. However, where I have seen this happen there is rarely an future payment of pension. The system seems to work - solely for state pension, but the same can be achieved by anyone close to the deceased/widow without giving up possession of the deceased's passport (the police will often ask the widow for it). The relevance of this is that it often useful to have the passport, as an ID document, if dealing with the providers of other assets in the estate.

 

If the deceased has other assets and/or private pensions the passport is useful to have - and the British embassy do not advise those companies of the death..........especially where he dies intestate. 

 

I hesitate to think how many widows have lost out on the widows benefit attached to occupational pensions - not all Farangs are savvy enough to tee things up in advance of their death; some don't even know what a widows pension is. Similarly, (up until recently) millions of Pounds of Bereavement Payments would have been missed because relatively few knew they were eligible - let alone able to make a claim.

Well done!

4 hours ago, hotandsticky said:

 

The passport does not need to go anywhere.

 

The only case where there needs to be any contact with the embassy is to obtain the release of the deceased's body from hospital. If death occurred at 'home' the Thai police need to be advised within 24 hours and they advise the relevant embassy.

 

You know very little - who said anything about "simply a phone call or letter"..  

 There must be a well developed process to deal with pensions of the deceased

1 British subject dies outside the uk. Either at home or in hospital

2 The deceased has no assets in the UK

You seem to claim that you are an expert.

Perhaps you could detail this process.

1 hour ago, hotandsticky said:

No need to contact the embassy, just advise DWP. It stops, end of story.

The authorities in Thailand will send the passport of the deceased to Brit. Embassy Bangkok.

Do not think that an individual can simply contact DWP and stop a persons pension via a simply phone call/letter.

On that basis anybody can stop another persons pension.

Not end of story!