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Wills for Married Couples in Thailand

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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing Wills in Thailand. We are specifically discussing these in the context of married couples here in Thailand. I want to be clear at the outset, we are going to have a little bit different analysis when you are getting into trying to promulgate Wills for a couple who are both foreign nationals in Thailand compared to couples that may be bi-national; Thai-American, Thai- British whatever.

So again, and this is too deep to do a video on in my opinion but again something to bear in the back of your mind if you are two foreigners in Thailand, you want to set up a Will structure, what we would sometimes refer to as reciprocal Wills between married couples, two foreigners, the analysis and the drafting and the formalization might be different for a foreign-foreign couple as opposed to a foreign-Thai couple, most notably things like documentation. The Thai National in a marriage where you are dealing with reciprocal Wills, a Thai national may honestly be quite easy to deal with from a documentation standpoint just because it is dealing with Thai documentation. But other things to consider are things like property ownership rights for example. Here in Thailand, Thais are allowed to own land whereas foreign nationals are not.

These are all concerns to take into consideration when looking at drafting a Will here in Thailand especially in the case of drafting a Will for married couples who are trying to look to do some variation of some sort of reciprocal Will structure here in the Kingdom.