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Usage of Thai Wills in Other Countries

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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing Thai Wills. A question came up the other day, somebody was asking us here in the office, I was talking with some of the Thai lawyers and they said, "Well can I use my Thai Will in another country?" The answer was, "if the other country's Probate Courts will allow it, if the Will is in line with the formalities of that country, then possibly yes." 

A probated Will in Thailand or what they call succession where they close the estate and they deem that succession with respect to the heirs, that type of thing in Thailand once that is finalized, the Court Order on that, it may be possible to have a foreign Court recognize that. But understand, it may not be automatic. In fact in most cases it's probably not going to be automatic. Thailand generally speaking doesn't have reciprocal recognition of foreign judgments so for that reason it is oftentimes kind of a tricky thing to deal with a Thai Court Order in another jurisdiction. Again circumstantially dependent. There are different cases, different laws in play where maybe they may automatically adopt a Thai judgement. Again it depends on circumstances.

That said, yeah it may be possible to formalize a Will which is in line not only with the Thai Laws on formality of testamentary instruments but is also in line with said laws in another jurisdiction. So yes, very much possible to have one instrument utilized here in Thailand as well as in another jurisdiction.