Marriage, family and inheritance
Registration, prenuptial agreements, property rights and inheritance. We handle the documents, the embassy, the district office and what comes after the certificate.
Since 23 January 2025
The Marriage Equality Act came into force on 23 January 2025 and opened civil marriage to any two people, including couples where both partners are foreign nationals. Thailand was the first country in Southeast Asia to do it.
For couples who live here, that turned a long argument about recognition into an ordinary question of paperwork. Our part is to make the paperwork uneventful.
Who we register
A Thai national and a foreigner. Two foreign nationals living in Thailand or arriving for the registration. Same sex couples. Couples who married abroad and need the marriage recognised here. Couples who need the marriage recognised in a third country afterwards.
How it works
Your embassy in Thailand issues an affirmation that you are free to marry. Each embassy has its own form, fee and waiting time, and we prepare you for yours.
The affirmation is translated into Thai and legalised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. We handle both and track the file.
Registration at the district office. We book it, attend with you and interpret, so nothing is signed that you have not understood.
Certified copies, translations for your home country, and the property and inheritance steps that should follow the certificate.
Requirements differ by nationality and by previous marital status. We confirm your exact list before anyone books a flight.
The agreement that has to come first
This is the single most expensive misunderstanding we see. In many countries a couple can sign a marital agreement at any time. In Thailand the agreement is registered together with the marriage at the district office. Afterwards it is too late, and what remains is a far harder route through the courts.
What each of you brings into the marriage and what stays separate. Property abroad, shares in a business, inheritance expected later.
Filed and registered with the marriage itself, in Thai, in the form the district office accepts.
We review what you already have and tell you honestly whether it will do anything in Thailand.
Inheritance
Property in Thailand passes under Thai succession rules. Without a Thai will, a surviving partner can spend a year in court proving a connection that one page would have settled, while the property sits frozen.
We prepare Thai wills, coordinate them with wills you hold abroad so that the two do not cancel each other, and act in estate administration when the time comes.
Drafted in Thai and English, witnessed correctly, kept where they can be found.
Court appointment of the administrator, transfer of the property, dealing with the Land Office.
Who owns what after marriage, and how a condominium or a lease is best held.
Divorce by agreement or through the court, division of assets, arrangements for children.
Fees
| Service | Fee |
|---|---|
| Marriage registration, Thai and foreign national | On request |
| Marriage registration, two foreign nationals | On request |
| Prenuptial agreement, drafting and registration | On request |
| Thai will | On request |
| Estate administration | On request |
| Divorce by agreement | On request |
Start here
That is enough for us to send you the exact document list, the realistic timeline and the fixed fee, before you commit to anything.
General information about Thai law, not legal advice on a particular case.
