might be heading for divorce, can either me or wife divorce in uk or do we both need to do it in thailand ? marriage was obviously registered with uk ambassy at the time ( i think ) .

DC

You can divorce any where but unless you have no contest, you'd better do it in Thailand. Any western country will take you to the hoover.

thai courts also rule favourabley against the farang husband , do they not !!

I divorced amicably in the UK, having married in Thailand. No kids and no property to split. £400 I recall and took about 10 weeks. I did it at the family court in Putney. Was much easier than hiking back to Bangkok with her.

In Scotland I was required to go to court to see if the Scottish court accepted that I was married (I married a Thai in Malaysia). The cost and time involved in that was ridiculous. Instead we went to the Ampur in Thailand, registered the marriage then divorced all on the same day.
The marriage was never registered in the UK.

You can download the forms you need from the internet...pop along to your local (to your place of resifence in UK) family court and file the forms there. If you have both signed the forms and no kids are involved it can be very straightforward to do.

I've just encountered a divorce hurdle. Married in Thailand, trying to divorce in UK (as that is where wife lives now). Original marriage certificates "lost", so I got a copy from the Amphur office in Bangkok (no need for police report, 10 baht per copy, but this is an official written version of the red certificate). Got this translated and sent to the court in the UK. Letter came back saying the original certificate is needed. Now, as far as I'm aware, an Amphur office cannot re-issue this.

I will write again to the court saying this is impossible to get, and wait for the response. Someone else must have had this problem?