Help. I am shortly to be royally rogered by my dearly departed wife who decided life with a maid and daily toenail paintings were not to her taste and did a runner with my kids back to Australia. I know what you are thinking and "yellow fever" (despise that term) domestic violence or anything evil had no part in the separation.

She has the full force of the Australian legal aid system behind her ready to wring the last cent / baht out of me.

I also miss my kids like crazy and she has now stopped weekly contact calls in a vindictive move.

Does anyone know a retired, visiting or practicing laywer in Bangkok conversant in Australian family law?

I am not looking to scrimp but am already financially challenged at her abuse of joint funds. The time difference and face to face contact would also make things much easier to conduct here.

Please guys and girls, any help greatly appreciated

Look at the Australian embassy webisite, some embassies have lists of lawyers and you might find a law fim with an Australian lawyer on it (if they have such list).

You probably know this but she has done the wrong thing already. As far as I know she has shown dissregard for the child by just taking him/her away from its father. This will look bad in the family law court. I would sugest writing everything down that you can remember, in diary form. Discredit her as a mother as much as you can.

The more vindictive she is to you and the more unstable your wife make your childs life, it actualy goes in your favour in court. As you know Australian law is the worst in the world, all that might not mean much in the way of custody but I don't know what you can dig up. It may mean a lot.

Good luck, feel very sorry for you in this situation situation..