Urgent Request for Information re Death of British Citizen in Thailand

[iGiveMaximum]

Hi,

 

been together with my wife for 10 years next month and taking care of her daughter (12yo) for 10 years as well.

I would like to adopt her so that she won’t need her biological dads signature for official stuff like changing schools anymore etc.

 

My wife and I don’t know where to start.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

 

Thank you🙏🏻

[chickenslegs]

The Department of the Children and Youth, Child Adoption Centre in Bangkok can give you all the information you need.

 

IME - They are very helpful and sympathetic. Well worth a trip to Bangkok and a face to face interview.

 

If you only need your wife to have sole decision making, the Family Court might make an order of sole custody, but you will almost certainly need the biological father to agree to have your wife as sole custodian. That might need some negotiation and a visit to the Family Court.

 

If you want to have parental rights for yourself and your wife, that would be more complex and involve official adoption. I guess this would be very difficult if the biological father doesn't agree.

 

In our case the biological mother and father had abandoned the child, so things were a bit easier. Still, it was a lengthy process but we got there in the end (about 2.5 years). Another year or so to get our daughter a citizenship of my country.

 

Good luck.

 

Child Adoption Center
Department of Children and Youth
Ministry of Social Development and Human Security
255 Ratchawithi Road 
Ratchathewi District
Bangkok 10400
Tel. / tél. : +66 (2) 3068821; +66 (2) 3068801

 

 

[jcmj]

I raised my friends son since he was 3. Now 21. He’s always been asking me to adopt him, but his mother is actually from Laos and they used a Thai lady friend to put her name on the birth certificate. We could never find her so we couldn’t do it. Now that he is of legal age he still wants me to adopt him as he considers me as his Dad. I told him that I don’t know if I could now that he is older. If anyone knows if this still can be done I’d sure love to do it for him.  He’ll always be my son no matter what the paperwork says, but it’s more important for him and still brings it up often. 🙏

[chickenslegs]

17 minutes ago, jcmj said:

I raised my friends son since he was 3. Now 21. He’s always been asking me to adopt him, but his mother is actually from Laos and they used a Thai lady friend to put her name on the birth certificate. We could never find her so we couldn’t do it. Now that he is of legal age he still wants me to adopt him as he considers me as his Dad. I told him that I don’t know if I could now that he is older. If anyone knows if this still can be done I’d sure love to do it for him.  He’ll always be my son no matter what the paperwork says, but it’s more important for him and still brings it up often. 🙏

I'd suggest you contact the Child Adoption Centre (details above). They will tell you whether it is possible or not.