Aphiwat Bualoi Teaches Thai Lawyers Estate Planning in Free Six-Week Class
From June to July 2026, Chiang Mai lawyer Aphiwat Bualoi taught a free six-week Zoom class for lawyers in Thailand on estate planning, wills, trusts, estate administration and lasting powers of attorney. All six sessions are now on YouTube.
Thai Labour Law Changed in December 2025. Here Is What Employers Have to Do
Thai Labour Law, What Changed in 2025 and What Changes in 2026 Thai labour law moved twice in the last year, and a third set of changes is being reported as though it had already happened. If you employ people in Thailand, you need to know which is which, because two of these require you…
Labour Inspector or Labour Court. How Employment Disputes Work in Thailand.
The Two Routes a Labour Claim Can Take Against You When a former employee decides to come after you in Thailand, they pick one of two roads. One runs through a government official. The other runs through a court. They have different powers, different deadlines and different costs, and the road your former employee picks…
Severance, Notice Pay and Damages. The Three Bills Thai Employers Confuse.
What You Owe When You Dismiss an Employee in Thailand Most employers in Thailand think of dismissal cost as one number. Your bookkeeper asks what the severance is, you look up the table, you pay it, and you assume the file is closed. It is not one number. Thai law gives a dismissed employee up…
SmartWills Turns Ten. Here Is What a Decade of Wills Says About Waiting.
Chiang Mai, 12 September 2026 SmartWills marks its tenth anniversary this evening at the Tropicana Grand Ballroom in Petaling Jaya, Selangor. Ten years ago the idea sounded small. Let an ordinary person make a proper will without taking a day off work. Ten years later that idea has grown into a regional platform, and Thailand…
Thailand Condo Succession Law and the Land Department Ruling
Most advice online tells you the same thing. If your foreign heir does not qualify to own a condo in Thailand, they inherit the unit and then have one year to sell it. That comes from Section 19 septem of the Condominium Act, and if you only read the Act, it is a fair reading.…
Land Department Ruling No. 12, Inheritance of a Condominium Unit by a Foreigner
Why this page exists Almost every article in English tells foreign owners the same thing. Your foreign heir inherits the unit and then has one year to sell it. The Land Department has ruled otherwise, and the ruling is short. We are publishing it in full so you can read the reasoning yourself and so…
Aphiwat Bualoi, Esq. Presents Thailand Estate Planning to Financial Advisers at the AEPA Conference 2026 in Singapore
Singapore, 3 September 2026 Aphiwat Bualoi, Esq., Managing Partner of Aphiwat Bualoi Law Office, delivered the session “Thailand: Situation and Opportunities” at the AEPA Conference held at Pullman at Hill Street, Singapore. About 160 financial advisers attended. The firm first joined an AEPA conference in 2023. That visit started a conversation. This talk continued it.…
Where Is Aphiwat Bualoi Law Office? Huay Kaew Road, Opposite MAYA
How to find our law office in Chiang Mai Our office is on the third floor of a building on Huay Kaew Road. From the street you cannot see our sign. Most of the people who come to see us are foreigners, and many of them have never been inside a Thai law office before.…
Where to Find an English Speaking Lawyer in Chiang Mai. A 60 Second Tour of Our Office
Where to find an English speaking lawyer in Chiang Mai Most people who need a lawyer in Chiang Mai have never used one here before. They do not know where the office is, what happens when they walk in, or whether anyone will speak English when they get there. So I made a short film…
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