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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.

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.

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?

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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

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

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?

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.

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.

Well done!

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.

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!