UnEnlightened

So who thinks it would be a good idea to change your baht savings into your home currency at this point?

You are panicking about nothing - buy Baht now, convert everything you have into Baht and spend spend spend, everything will be fine

Yesterday, I bought 20,000baht worth of shares and today (Friday), I ordered and paid a deposit for a new Honda Civic 2.0 litre.

Ok, so you are fairly confident that the current turmoil will represent a minor economic hiccup in the grand scheme of things? Sorry to reduce this all to money btw. It's just that i have a young family to worry about.

So who thinks it would be a good idea to change your baht savings into your home currency at this point?

You are panicking about nothing - buy Baht now, convert everything you have into Baht and spend spend spend, everything will be fine

Well its certainly true that the recent problems haven't seemed to weaken the baht significantly against the Aussie dollar. What exactly makes you confident in it's continued strength though? I don't know much about Thai economics myself. I assume a significant portion of their GDP comes from tourism though.

So who thinks it would be a good idea to change your baht savings into your home currency at this point?

Ok, here is a 'hypothetical' question. Suppose you were to physically register the documents with the Amphur yourself thereby ensuring your name appears twice on the birth certificate. After reading this entire thread it seems that this is all that is required to legitimise your new born. As far as I understand it, this automatically entitles you to joint custody so long as the mother cooperates.

Now, if you were to return to your home country with your child but without the mothers knowledge or consent, have you broken any thai law? If you re-enter the country without the child, can you be arrested for anything?