Question

[GinBoy2]

So, my wife's friend just died unexpectedly.

 

Left behind are her German husband and a mutual underage son, Thai/german national.

 

Given the suddenness and the realative youth of the wife don't believe there was any will or the like.

 

What happens now? He obviously is now widowed, so visa wise, and does the minor son inherit the land, or do adult siblings of the woman get a bite

 

 

[KhunLA]

What is a 'mutual' underage son ?

 

If her birth son, the son & spouse would be the higher 'class' of inheritance.  So 100% goes to them.

 

Not sure where the non Thai spouse fits in, but spouse & son get all.  If not spouse or son, then gets divided to parents & siblings.

 

[GinBoy2]

3 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

What is a 'mutual' underage son ?

 

If her birth son, the son & spouse would be the higher 'class' of inheritance.  So 100% goes to them.

 

Not sure where the non Thai spouse fits in, but spouse & son get all.  If not spouse or son, then gets divided to parents & siblings.

 

What I meant was it's his kid, not a step son from previous relationship

[KhunLA]

Underage son, the inheritance would be put in to a trust, till adult age.  He may want to consult a lawyer for that, along it he is allowed to manage the trust, since a non Thai.

 

His first stop after the funeral should be a lawyer.

 

[GinBoy2]

What happens visa wise?

 

he's kinda in pieces right now, ain't thinking straight.

 

Half of me wants to tell just go back to Germany, calm down get his head back together then figure out if Thailand without his wife is where he wants to be

[KhunLA]

What's his age ?   If 50, then 0 non immigrant for retirement should be easy enough.  If younger, then 'support of Thai national'.

 

I had the latter after a divorce and not yet 50 yrs old, couple decades ago 🙄

[GinBoy2]

9 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

What's his age ?   If 50, then 0 non immigrant for retirement should be easy enough.  If younger, then 'support of Thai national'.

 

I had the latter after a divorce and not yet 50 yrs old, couple decades ago 🙄

Hmm, thats the problem, I don't think he has the ฿800K for a retirement visa.

 

Few years back I lent him money to get him through the ฿400K marriage visa thing.

 

How does the supporting a Thai child work?

 

Still concerned about land.

 

They mortgaged themselves up to the eyeballs to buy and build a resort. Not in a tourist hotspot so it's reliant on the locals.

 

Pretty sure the money came from the local Chinese money lenders which is dodgy just from the get go, and God knows what the paper trail is.

 

Now I'm watching this train wreak from across the ocean and just trying to help the best I can. Recruited a Swedish mutual friend who speaks German, I speak Thai and we're trying to navigate him through this.

 

My wife is on the case with her contacts in the local Government, but TiT you know how that goes

[proton]

Supporting the kid is 400k for an extension, I believe up to the age of 18