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Thai888 Law, Abroad Funerals Thailand, Thai888 Foundation top award winners 2021, 2022, 2023

Thai888 Law, Abroad Funerals Thailand & Thai888 Foundation have been awarded the top award for Wills and Probate & most innovative company in South East Asia and Thailand in 2021, 2022, 2023.

This recognition is a testament to our commitment to providing clients with high quality legal services from qualified lawyers, accountants experienced with local and international legal issues.

Our team of English as a first language are dedicated to helping you navigate through all aspects of your case including Last Will & Living Wills drafting up Notary documents such as Power Of Attorney (POA) or dealing with Embassy staff , police officers , hospital administrators or banks on your behalf .

We offer an extensive one stop service center based out of Pattaya Thailand that can assist you no matter where you may be located .

We understand how important it is that any wills probate matters are handled quickly efficiently by professionals who know what they are doing so we strive towards making sure these needs are met every time .

With three offices throughout the region we provide easy access for anyone seeking help when it comes down to wills probate related cases. We offer an extensive one stop service center based out of Pattaya Thailand that can assist you no matter where you may be located . We understand how important it is that any wills probate matters are handled quickly efficiently by professionals who know what they are doing so we strive towards making sure these needs are met every time . We provide easy access for anyone seeking help when it comes down to wills probate, criminal, civil, company, real estate related cases.

UK Wills please check if you live in Thailand

Wording and phrases

Last week in court the Judge questioned a UK Will in that the immovable property (the condo) was given to 2 of the heirs. Their name was specifically attached to this asset at 50/50 % each. However, the movable asset (money in the bank) was not allocated to these heirs and so the Judge request a family tree to show who is alive and who is not. The UK Will was drawn up in old English with bits of Greek thrown in to make it sound official. However, in a Thai Court with a Thai Judge hearing my testimony translated into Thai has was not convinced.

Lost in Translation

The issue was that the condo could be given to the Beneficiaries however the money in the bank was classified as residual and was needed to pay the bills, funeral, lawyers, etc. and what was left (residual) was to be given to who? The English Will was specific in this and stated that under section 41 of UK Law that all debts be settled by the Trustees (Executors) however Thailand does not have trusts or trustees – but rather controllers of property where the heir of Beneficiary is under age.

Thai always takes precedence over another language

Thai Courts, Thai Property, Thai laws and not UK or any other countries Law. However, Thai Courts will sometimes rule if another country has already ruled in favour in their own country. This is a precedence that can have weight in the case in Thailand if another international court has already determined the verdict. But still clarification is needed.

Thai888 Law Wills

Our Wills are designed for Thailand, although we do make international Wills, and are in Thai and English. Our Wills are proof read and signed off by the Testator (the person making the Will) and this shows they understand what their wishes are and that the are of sound mind (competent) to make this legal document. Thai888 Wills can involve other countries assets however should you pass away then international laws may come into play, overseas taxes etc. You may want to consider separating the Wills are this will stop any legal issues after you pass. Remember in the UK over a certain amount of money could attract a 40% tax. You can talk to us about this should you have an issue

Contact [email protected] and I will send you a checklist that points out what info we need to make your Will. We make a draft and send it to you. Any changes we can make. Then when you’re happy we will print it out, you come to sign, all is bound together with your picture (showing your competent) and signed by 2 witnesses in our legal offices. Then and only then do you pay.

Don’t say you have nothing and so don’t need a Will

This is wrong thinking as your body is in a foreign country and so the Embassy/Consulate, Police, Morgue, Hospital, Next of Kin, Temple, ashes, etc all need to be taken care of and when there is a Will in place and an administrator to contact it makes everything much easier.

Do yourself and your family / friends a favour and MAKE a Will now!!!

Why no Last Will Testament mandate

A Will document should be mandatory given the last 2.5 years we have been through with convid and the jabs. I say this as the last Will Testament is not only about your possessions or assets but about your body and who takes care of it, and the associated legal work

Embassy and Consulate procedures

There is a lot of red tape to follow and one issue that came about last week was, although this man was living out his twilight years in Thailand, he did not make a Will. He lived with his partner for over 10 years and thought that was good enough and she would take over when he passed. However there is no common law like this in Thailand.

Next of Kin or NOK

After he passed the Embassy was informed and they require the next of kin (NOK) to make the application for the letter of release (of the body) and as there was no listed next of kin, he remains in the morgue, until the Embassy can find someone to sign off on the docs require to make the funeral.

Fail to Plan , Plan to Fail

A little bit of planning would have saved all this and so PLEASE make a Will, particularly if you live in a foreign country. THANKS

Your hard work and money going to another

Normally people have assets and a beneficiary to give their assets to. If you don’t make this doc then you run the risk of decisions and your assets going to another unintended person

Thai888 Law and Abroad Funerals have won top awards over the past few years for making things easier for every body including ourselves. We are making presentations regularly to Expats in Thailand and serve this community well

Top award winners 2021 and 2022

Thai888 Law and Abroad Funerals THailand — Combined companies for better low cost law and Probate and all things in between

We have won the top Award for Wills and Probate as Kelvin (CEO) does this work everyday. He works locally and internationally and knows the issues regarding tax and jurisdiction and what countries have what rights

For the future book mark us now

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Thai888 Law and Abroad Funerals and Juridipedia

Thai888 Law Company did not know we were listed on Juridipedia and so thank you for whoever did this. It shows we have 4 x 5 star ratings and so this does not take into account our Google stars as well.

Thank you and we look forward to your inquiries as we are the only combined legal and Abroad Funeral Services in Thailand. If you have ever done a funeral you will know all the legal red tape needed before a funeral cremation can take place. Thai888 Law does everything for you and deals with the police, building manager, transport to hospital and onto the forensic lab in Bangkok, consulate and embassy requirements, next of kin, court, probate, repatriation of remains and assets. All in the Thai language. With our Australian CEO this makes things a lot easier. Plus now that there are no flights into Thailand you can do all this remotely from your country – a few phone calls then use LINE, SKYPE, MESSENGER, WHATSAPP to get docs here and there. Book mark us for the future as we handle all forms of law.

Living Will Thai888 Law Pattaya Thailand

It is most important to have this document

It is perfectly legal in Thailand to have a Living Will. However you need to be aware that it is a directive that you set up before hand to tell the doctors, hospital, staff NOT TO keep you alive on a machine, NOT TO force feed you, etc. It is not to tell the hospital that you are sick of living and want them to terminate your life by drugs or another method.

There are 2 legal conditions that activate the LW

You must be in a terminal phase of illness ie cancer and dying or brain dead after a stroke or accident. Health Act part 12.

The person you had sign your Will as the Surrogate must meet with the hospital and staff and show them the legal signed Living Will otherwise if no Will then you could remain on life support for a long time and this is expensive.

Spend small money to make a document to stop paying big money strapped to a machine later.

Read this artical from the Bangkok Post. The old age care home is something else and I know of a few around Pattaya and Hua Hin.

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/1864074/how-to-depart-with-dignity

A stay in hospital could run at 70,000 baht per day and this will soon deplete your savings. This is not to say you should not be in hospital seeking treatment, however you might get the same treatment at another hospital much cheaper. But without having a directive of some kind there is no way your proxy can have you moved to a cheaper hospital. You are powerless.

Due to my business I cannot be in this state and so have personally left a Last and Living Will. Perhaps you should consider the worst case scenario to prepare for (and hope it never happens) but still you have the docs in place if needed. [email protected]

Speaker of the year at Pattaya City Expats Club PCEC 2019

Every Sunday at the Holiday inn the PCEC has breakfast and a guest speaker
Be there as no need to become a member

Thai888 Law & Abroad Funerals are at the PCEC every Sunday morning Holiday Inn Beach Road 10am.

If you have not been to a PCEC meeting then shame on you. It is in a beautiful venue with 3 large screens for slides of video to assist the speaker. I have done several presentations there and love it. Breakfast, if you want, is 250 baht, fresh bakery, juices, eggs, fruit, salad, bacon, noodles, etc. Membership if you want is around 400 baht per year and goes to running the club. Volunteers do most of the work.

Ren Lexander PCEC volunteer

Ren stood up to the plate when another Member Laurie passed away. Apart from a fantastic variety of guest speakers Ren is not shy with the microphone and presenting himself. This happened last Sunday where a scheduled guest speaker could not make it. Ren gave one of the best presentations of the year, if not the best. It was very informative and showed many different ways of thinking from the Thai people and Westerners.

The talk is here and anyone interested or living in Thailand click here https://youtu.be/DK1wvT9URck

Thai888 Law and Abroad Funerals Pattaya are proud members of PCEC

About Ren

I bought his seduction by the stars book and loaned it out. Never came back. So I bought 3 copies and gave to friends. Funny, enjoyable read and road map for some

Thai888 Law domain up and running

Monday saw all of our mail systems thai888.com down. We could receive emails but could not send as for an unknown reason. I called our domain hosting service Godaddy in Singapore. This did not help. It became its not our problem but they did try to help.

Email issues

The second call was to TOT Thailand and some techs came out on Tuesday. A few hours later they showed me a screenshot of the Singapore server rejecting thai888.com emails.

Godaddy or TOT

Call back to Godaddy in the USA, where nearly an hour later I was getting angry as no sleep for a day and no email for 2 days.

Again Godaddy rejected that it could be their Singapore servers, although I had the screenshot of the servers rejecting thai888.com mail!

So we have Singapore, Thailand, USA and me being an Australian trying to solve the blame game with me in the middle saying I have to run a company and staff and clients emails aren’t getting through.

In the end, it was not a Godaddy issue according to them nor TOT issue and so.

In the end, I did something very radical. I moved (migrated) our thai888.com domain and all things to the USA.

6 hours later I got a messaging saying migration was completed. Then I reconfigured all the mail and certificates for SSL to show USA domain hosting.

Abroad Funeral Services Company Pattaya Thailand

Once things settle down I plan to make Abroad Funeral Thailand Website.

Don’t forget that Abroad Funeral Thailand is designed to take the worry and hassle from learning that a friend or family member has passed away in Thailand. What to do? where to start, who to call first? +66 8 0102 8978 do they speak English? Don’t waste time and just call us.

All is well now and so my apologies for any inconvenience –

My IT background saves the day

BTW my prior life I was the IT manager of Central Queensland University in Sydney NSW Australia and with this knowledge, I was able to fix this international issue. And so I hope something like this doesn’t happen to you as without technical knowledge it would be hard to diagnose the problem.

2 day problem with thai888.com email, now sorted.

Alzheimer’s or just getting old Thai888 Law Funeral

Alzheimer’s who will help out. How to make a Will directive for carers.
Thai888 Law knows what to do.

Alzheimer’s a very destructive decease and so make sure you have a WIll and directions for someone to look after you Thai888 law

I tend to forget sometimes that I am dealing with real living people and their emotions and bodies. Making a Will or enforcing a Living Will after doing it hundreds of times makes it sometimes impersonal and robot-like. After all, it is a legal document. But for some they want their legacy to live on through a charity or helping their Thai partner, their family or sometimes even the gardener or the cook.

When a Will is made it normally stats that the person making it is of sound mind. However, my experience lately is that some of my clients have or are developing Alziemers. These people are elderly and living alone.

Alzheimer’s is a dreadful decease and most debilitating. And the worst is that each day it shows and the person forgets many things, even why they are in my office.

The disease gets to a point where the person needs 24-hour care. Care that is not really available in Thailand and so the person takes whatever assistance they can get. Someone to just be there in case.

The carer may mean well but they have no experience in looking after someone with Alzheimer’s. None.

I am not saying this of all carers but one client has an awful lot of money missing from their account. The carer was given the PIN number and access as sometimes the client cannot get out of bed and needs supplies. Each day several withdrawals have been made.

A lot of trust is needed here. It’s not easy and what else can one do in this situation?

If you know someone in this position then get them to make a Will whilst they are still competent.

Also, try to make them understand that someone needs to look after their accounts, someone trustworthy.

If the person has a large estate or more than 2 bank accounts, get them to start reducing all things down to a manageable size. 2 bank books – 1 fixed interest and the other day to day should be enough. And don’t forget the 800K in the bank for Immigration. And to go every 90 days and to apply for your visa every 12 months.

Not easy when you can’t remember much at all.

I did not ever expect this to be part of my job. However, I can help in a few ways. I am the controller of property for may clients, meaning that should something happen I can control the asset if it is for a person under 20 years old.

I can help if you have a Living Will or the Last Will and I am the Executor.

I cannot help if you have nothing in place and no next of kin.

Therefore I ask you to make a Will and make sure that a trusted 3rd party has your access codes and PIN numbers – and I don’t mean the gardener or the cook as the temptation is too great.

Please act on this before its too late. [email protected]

Alzheimer and Your Last WIll Thai888 Law

Galloper, Funeral, Pattaya, Probate, Insurance, Thai888 Law

A tough time for all involved and particularly as Gordon Halpin AKA “Galloper” and his wife Judy were friend of over 8 years.

As friends, we assisted from the beginning at the hospital, with the insurance company from Australia, the Police, and used Thai888 Law to arrange the funeral, cremation, insurance claim, and Probate. It was a very big day and thanks to all our staff and friends for making it so.

Here is the funeral of a big day for big Mr G at 6 foot 6 inches tall.

https://youtu.be/y2ZxYXaqbHE

Living Will Thai888 Law

The Ministry of Public Health, healthcare bodies and political parties have been urged to do more to the public on patients’ right to reject medical treatment and a peaceful death and reduced health care…

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