Getting US death certificate legalized

[digbeth]

An acquaintance's Thai wife has passed away in the states, and in order to get a Thai death certificate from the Thai consulate in the US he'd have to go through sending the death certificate legalized by the state department?

 

The Thai family back here requires either the death certificate to have an official translation/certified in Thai and apparently the US embassy in Bangkok won't notarize the death certificate or translations unless it went though legalization by the state department back in the US either?

 

Is this something he has to do in person with the state department or can he engage a service from a local US lawyer if he'd rather not bother with the legwork? is there anything to look for in a lawyer that they'd know to do it properly?

 

The wife had some land in her name and in order to get the estate sorted and her name marked off the house register they'd need the death certificate accepted at the amphur first 

 

The family in Thailand try to go to a translation company/visa agent and they suggest he can sign over a power of attorney to the remaining family member in Thailand to start the ball rolling to, but he'd still have to get the death certificate legalized in the US either way right?