tomster

Huh? Have you ever had a business bank account in Thailand?

One is used for business, the other is used for you personally. Sometimes people use their personal apps for business but from a company accounting point of view, you should really just use your business account to do business transactions.

They are personal apps, not business.

Today Kbank (bless them) finally retired their (very useful) Kbank SME App on Andriod. You are supposed to transition to their new app KBIZ - but only for Thai's and not for us dirty foreigners (even though I have banked with them for 18 years). I run two busy businesses here and being able to make payments on my phone is super useful, so I need to change to bank with a decent mobile phone app. Bangkok Bank doesn't have a phone app (that I am aware of - please correct me if I'm wrong), so even though I have a business account with them they are out of the potential banks to switch to. So looking for a bank that allows foreigners to use their mobile app - a massive bonus would be the ability to scan QR codes to make payments from that app as this was lacking on the KBank app that has just been retired. Thanks in advance.

It's a whopping great hole in the new law - you do now need to register on the Plook Ganja app but any Thai can do it and there are no inspections or similar. Then you can grow however much you want pretty much, it's not possible for anybody to check if you sell it or not. So you now have commercial farms having to get some serious paperwork together for their commercial licenses, but everybody else growing unlimited amounts without any restrictions and in reality able to sell it without any problems. What could possibly go wrong?

After legalisation in June 2022 loads of people gave growing at home ago, but since then most seemed to have stopped because a. it is actually quite hard here if you are not used to growing in high heat & humidty, and b. the price of flower is currently that cheap there is no point. However, the price of flower is about to go North as the low grade growers stop producing low grade weed that nobody wants, the new GACP requirement will knock most of them out of production. So lets say the price went back to 150-250 Baht per gram for even the mid-range, avergage flower (which is very possible) would you consider growing your own at home? It costs about 25-35 Baht per gram to do so, for reference. Cheers.

Are there any clinics on the Darkside that will issue acceptable health certificates for work permit renewals? I know of several on the brightside, just being lazy. Thanks in advance.

Ah sorry, I did not see the first message.

Do you use Lineman or Food Panda at all?

Very helpful, thanks for the insight.

Do you use it over Grab, or is Grab the go to and Food Panda the back up?

Interested to know if any board members use Lineman or Food Panda food delivery apps regularly? I just saw something online saying that Lineman had 44% of the food delivery market in Thailand in early 2024 with Grab at 40% - that really surprised me.

Thanks.

As per the title, if you eat lots of ship/prawns, what's your preferred brand that hopefully does not use antibiotics and other toxic additives to keep the shrimp healthy? Thanks in advance.

I have a new Nespresso machine on order, wondering what milk other board members prefer to use in their coffee? Thanks in advance.

I researched this a bit further and it does seem that law recognizes marriage by the parents after birth date as the same as being married when the child is born. Section 1547 addresses this. So that is the new thing I learned today - there are 4 ways, not 3 ways of being registered as the father of a child under Thai law: 1. Being married to the mother of the child at the time of the birth of the child 2. Marrying the mother of the child at a later date (unspecified timeline and you will need to prove you are the biological father) 3, Court legitimized via legal process 4, Mutual agreement registration at the local Amphur after the the child is 7-8 years old (exact age of child not specified)

Thanks for all the replies. However, it still leaves the original question unanswered. If you are on the birth certificate but not married when the child is born, then marry afterwards do you get the same rights as you would get if you were married when the child was born, or do you need to either go to court or wait until they are 7 and do it at the local amphur. This guy seems to imply that you do get full rights by marrying (the last sentence of the video), but I can't see where on the internet that backs this up: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?extid=MSG-UNK-UNK-UNK-COM_GK0T-GK1C&v=395069283668798 There are a few people I know that are living with their girlfriend and kids but are not married (including myself), it would be interesting for them (and me) to know what the actual law is on this is. Note this is not a visa related question, if you are living with the child and the mother and on the birth certificate immigration will give you a Non 0 extension. This is about the legal status of guardianship and what happens if the marriage then goes South and you divorce - are you then the father in the eyes of the law or do you still need to go to court. An example of how this might affect somebody in real life is putting a property in the child's name, if things went south and the relationship with the mother broke down after the remarry, if you were not registered properly as the father she could sell the property and you wouldn't be able to stop it, as far as I know. Or applying for a passport for another country for the child would require documentation saying you are the legal father, but would you have it if you married after the child was born...?

With respect that is very bad advice, you should always, always, always have a good lawyer with you in court for anything important in Thailand unless you read and speak legal Thai as well as a Thai lawyer.

No, he is not, he does not know I have posted it - I am doing so because I am in a similar situation with my second child and was wondering if anybody on here had done something similar. And as usual, he is asking different lawyers and getting different answers.

That is incorrect, unless you are married when the child is born you are legally not recognized by the Thai courts as the father of the child regardless of being on the birth certificate. You can get a Non 0 extension as immigration will normally allow this, but that does not make you the legal guardian of the child. This is something I dealt with myself several years ago, I am very familiar with this part of the law. The question is and it's quite interesting - if you marry the mother of your child AFTER the child is born do you get the same rights as if you were married WHEN the child was born. Visa status is not relevant here so maybe I have asked in the wrong forum, and it needs to the parenting forum? https://aseannow.com/forum/96-family-and-children/

He is already on a non O extension based on the kid, but this is facilitated by the mother of the kid. It's complicated but the question is the question, his visa status is not the issue.

OK, so asking this for a friend. He has a 4 year old daughter with a Thai woman that is his girlfriend, not wife. They have never been married and were just boyfriend and girlfriend when the child was born. He is on the birth certificate. His relationship with the Thai woman is quite stormy and this results in the kid sometimes having to go to Isaan to stay with the family, while things settle down. He has been told that if he marries the mother of his child, he will gain the same parental rights immediately as he would have had if they were married when the child was born. I was under the impression that he would need to go to court and get recognized as the father to get these rights (as I have had to do in the past with my son), but he is adamant that the same parental rights are instantly given if he marries her now. Is he correct on this or will he still need to go to court to get recognized as the father legally in Thailand to get equal rights over the child (in the eyes of the courts)? Thanks in advance.

Bringing this on back from the dead, I didn't get a chance to do it last time and looking to do it asap. Bangkok Pattaya Hospital have just quoted 40-50k plus doctors fees... Madness. Any up to date info from somebody that has had it done on the East Coast (other than BPH) in the last 18 months or so would be most welcome. Thanks.

Ah, that's what he meant, thank you. I'm actually changing extension type from Non O family to Non B (I already have work permit etc) but for one reason or another it's all a bit last minute. Anyway, that 7 days will buy me the time I need in case there are any issues. All good, thanks again.

Apologies if this is a silly question, but at the end of a one year extension to stay (non O Thai family) are you required to leave on the day the extension to stay runs out, or is there a 7 day grace period? I thought you had to be out on the day it expired to avoid overstay, but a visa agent just mentioned that you have a further 7 days - just wondering if that is correct or not? Thanks in advance.