A properly drafted, notarised will protects your family from probate disputes. We handle everything from drafting and notarisation to executor appointment after passing.
Thai Notary Law and Service Co., Ltd. — registered Thai company, Tax/Reg ID 0405565001923, providing notary & international legalization services for over 10 years.
Thai law recognises 4 will forms; ordinary form requires 2 witnesses. Notarisation is recommended, and naming an executor in advance is essential.
Civil and Commercial Code sections 1655-1672 prescribe four will forms: (1) Holographic — entirely handwritten by the testator with date and signature; (2) Ordinary — typed, with two witnesses; (3) Public document — executed before a District Officer; (4) Secret document — sealed and stamped by a District Officer. Each form carries different evidentiary weight and suitability.
Without a will, intestate succession under section 1629 applies (six classes of statutory heirs). Unregistered partners receive nothing; unrecognised illegitimate children have no claim. For overseas assets (bank accounts, real estate, shares), families typically spend 2-5 years proving entitlement. A well-drafted will skips all of this.
Even with a will, asset distribution requires a court-appointed Estate Administrator (section 1713). We name the executor in the will in advance, file the court petition within 30-60 days post-death, draft the petition, contact co-heirs, and administer the estate to completion.
Inventory Thai/overseas assets and list heirs.
Holographic / Ordinary / Public / Secret.
Allocate per the testator's wishes.
Name primary and substitute executors.
Thai/English for international families.
Unlimited revisions before final print.
Witnesses cannot be beneficiaries (section 1653).
Adds legal weight and overseas usability.
Register at District Office for safety.
Originals stored in our office safe.
Provide copies to the named executor.
File executor petition and administer estate.
| Service Item | Starting Fee |
|---|---|
Holographic will review | THB 3,500 – THB 6,000 |
Ordinary will + Notary | THB 5,000 – THB 10,000 |
Public document will | THB 8,000 – THB 15,000 |
Secret document will | THB 10,000 – THB 18,000 |
Executor petition filing | THB 25,000 – THB 60,000 |
Full package (draft + notary + storage + post-death) | THB 35,000 – THB 80,000 |
* Starting prices, VAT excluded. Final fee depends on page count, complexity and turnaround time required.
For multi-jurisdiction assets, the multiple-wills approach (one will per asset jurisdiction) avoids conflict-of-laws issues. We coordinate with attorneys in destination countries (US, UK, Australia, Singapore) to draft a coherent estate plan. EU assets can elect governing law under Brussels IV.
Under the 2015 Inheritance Tax Act, heirs receiving over 100M THB pay 5% (direct heirs) or 10% (others). Taxable assets: real estate, securities, bank accounts, vehicles. We pre-plan via lifetime gifts, trusts, and corporate structures.
Wills can be amended anytime via a new will revoking the prior one (sections 1693-1697). We recommend review every 3-5 years or on major life events (marriage, divorce, birth, major acquisition). Version history and amendments are free for the storage term.
Thai-issued documents that flow through our Will and inheritance service are evaluated against the framework set by Civil Court (probate jurisdiction) and Department of Lands for real-property inheritance. That framework rests on CCC Sections 1599–1755 on succession and Sections 1646–1672 on testamentary forms, which together with successive ministerial circulars defines exactly which signatures, seals, and translator credentials a receiving officer must see before stamping "accepted". We track every amendment as it is published in the Royal Gazette and in counterpart official journals, then pre-validate each file in three independent passes — clerical, legal, and language — so that the dossier presented at the counter never triggers a discretionary "return for correction". Pricing for the complete chain currently sits in the 8,000–60,000 THB depending on estate complexity band and turn-around is 60–120 days for probate appointment of administrator, both quoted as a fixed fee with no surprise consular surcharges. Because our team has handled this exact regulator pipeline thousands of times, we maintain a live decision matrix that maps each document type to the precise stamp sequence accepted by Civil Court (probate jurisdiction) and Department of Lands for real-property inheritance; this lets us promise that a file leaving our office in the morning can typically be lodged abroad the same week. Where a receiving agency has not yet updated its public guidance, we cross-check against the most recent submissions cleared by colleagues in the field network so the file you carry reflects today's de facto practice rather than yesterday's printed handbook.
Every Will and inheritance engagement begins with a free fifteen-minute consultation in which we map your end goal — typically cross-border estates with assets in Australia, the UK, or the US or foreign spouse inheritance of land via 1-year disposal rule — back to a numbered checklist of source documents, signatures, and stamps. Once the brief is fixed we open a dedicated case file, assign a senior legal lead, and dispatch a courier to collect originals from your home, hotel, or office anywhere in Thailand. Source documents are scanned at 600 DPI in colour for the audit trail; the working copy is then routed in parallel to translation, in-house legal review, and Notarial Services Attorney signature. After the file passes the internal twenty-three-point quality gate we submit it to Civil Court (probate jurisdiction) and Department of Lands for real-property inheritance on the next available counter slot — premium-class slots are pre-booked weekly so an express job is rarely delayed by queue length. Total clock time is 60–120 days for probate appointment of administrator for the standard chain, and we issue a tamper-evident digital copy as soon as the final stamp lands so you can confirm receipt before the physical bundle reaches you. A complimentary "lodgement coaching" session with one of our paralegals walks you through which page of which form each translated document maps onto in your downstream application for business shareholder succession, eliminating the second-most-common rejection cause of correctly translated documents attached to the wrong evidence slot.
Our internal sample of more than nine thousand Will and inheritance files filed since 2019 shows that roughly one in five dossiers prepared without specialist support is returned for correction, costing applicants two to six weeks per cycle. The single most frequent failure mode is drafting a single will to cover both Thai immovable and foreign movable property — best practice is two parallel wills, followed by inconsistent transliteration of Thai personal names across multiple documents in the same bundle, omission of source-document seals or marginal stamps, and incorrect handling of Buddhist Era dates without Common Era conversion shown in brackets. We close every one of these gaps through a multi-tier quality gate: a translation lead reviews terminology against our service-specific glossary, a legal lead validates the chain of signatures against the current Civil Court (probate jurisdiction) and Department of Lands for real-property inheritance circular, and a senior paralegal cross-checks every page against the artefact specification — namely, court-issued letters of administration (คำสั่งตั้งผู้จัดการมรดก) certified for use abroad. Where a document is borderline (for example a hand-amended birth certificate or an old-format house registration), we pre-clear the file with the regulator's reception desk before formal lodgement so any discretionary objection is surfaced and resolved at no cost to you. The result is a measured first-pass acceptance rate above ninety-seven percent across our entire Will and inheritance portfolio, with the residual three percent handled under our free-redo guarantee.
Pricing for Will and inheritance is structured around three real-world packages so that your cost is predictable from the first email. The Essentials package targets straightforward filings such as cross-border estates with assets in Australia, the UK, or the US and starts at the bottom of the 8,000–60,000 THB depending on estate complexity range; it covers translation, Notarial Services Attorney signature, MFA legalisation, and digital archive of the final bundle. The Expanded package addresses files that require additional embassy-level certification — for instance foreign spouse inheritance of land via 1-year disposal rule — and adds embassy booking, courier-walk-in service, and a same-day digital scan of the legalised version once the consular counter releases the file. The Premier package is reserved for complex cases such as business shareholder succession where a foreign agency demands extra steps such as Apostille conversion, court-certified affidavit, or sworn-translator declaration on a parallel language. All three packages quote a fixed fee with no consular surcharge surprises, include a clock-time guarantee aligned with 60–120 days for probate appointment of administrator, and are backed by our free-redo policy in the rare event the receiving authority requests amendment. Because we hold an agency line at Civil Court (probate jurisdiction) and Department of Lands for real-property inheritance, premium-class slots are pre-booked weekly so even express jobs ship inside the published clock window.
Our Will and inheritance workflow is engineered to meet not just the regulatory floor set by CCC Sections 1599–1755 on succession and Sections 1646–1672 on testamentary forms but also the data-protection expectations imposed by Thailand's Personal Data Protection Act BE 2562 and, where applicable, the EU General Data Protection Regulation. Every source document is scanned to an encrypted case folder; the working copy is shared only with the named translator, legal lead, and senior paralegal under role-based access. Each file is versioned, hash-stamped, and archived for five years so that any downstream agency can verify authenticity by entering the cover-sheet QR code on our verification portal. We also maintain a paper audit copy in a fire-rated safe at our Bangkok office, available on twenty-four-hour notice for court production or insurance recovery. For corporate clients we issue a quarterly compliance attestation that lists every Will and inheritance file processed under the engagement, the regulator stamps applied, and the storage location of the digital and paper artefacts — sufficient evidence for ISO 9001 surveillance audits and for the data-controller obligations that listed companies face under SEC ESG reporting guidelines.
Specialist handling pays for itself the first time a downstream agency clears your file without an RFI. A general agency that bundles Will and inheritance into an "all services" menu typically processes a handful of files per month, which is too few to keep pace with the steady drip of practice notes published by Civil Court (probate jurisdiction) and Department of Lands for real-property inheritance. Our team, by contrast, files multiple Will and inheritance dossiers every working day; the practical effect is that we recognise marginal issues — a faint embassy seal, a half-millimetre crop on a notary signature, a transliteration that differs from the latest TM47 — before they reach the counter. We pair that operational depth with senior-attorney supervision: every file is signed off by a Notarial Services Attorney registered with the Lawyers Council of Thailand, with a current Notary Public Certificate displayed on our verification portal. Add the free-redo guarantee, the fixed-fee promise, the bilingual coaching session, and the nationwide pickup-and-delivery network, and the comparison with a general agency narrows quickly: the specialist path is no more expensive on paper, materially faster in practice, and meaningfully less stressful at the receiving counter — especially when the file underpins a life-defining outcome such as cross-border estates with assets in Australia, the UK, or the US.
Before you contact us about Will and inheritance, gather these items so we can issue an accurate fixed-fee quote within one business hour: a colour scan of the source document including front and reverse, a copy of the passport or identification of every named party, the receiving-agency reference number where one has been issued, the target deadline expressed in the receiving country's local timezone, and a short description of the downstream filing — for example whether the document will support cross-border estates with assets in Australia, the UK, or the US, foreign spouse inheritance of land via 1-year disposal rule, or business shareholder succession. We will reply with a numbered quote covering translation, Civil Court (probate jurisdiction) and Department of Lands for real-property inheritance steps, courier logistics, and the optional same-day digital scan upgrade. Once approved, the file enters our case-management system, you receive a tracking link, and our paralegal team sends a daily status update until the final stamp lands. Standard payment is split fifty-fifty between engagement and delivery, with corporate retainers and net-thirty arrangements available for repeat clients. Because CCC Sections 1599–1755 on succession and Sections 1646–1672 on testamentary forms is updated several times each year, we encourage clients to engage us at the earliest planning stage rather than after a deadline crystallises — early engagement consistently translates into lower overall cost, fewer revision cycles, and a calmer experience at the receiving counter for Will and inheritance files of every complexity.
Notarial Services Attorneys in Thailand must hold a licence from the Lawyers Council of Thailand under the 2003 Notarial Services Regulation.
Read full text →Thailand is not yet a party to the Apostille Convention — documents require dual legalisation by MFA Consular Affairs and the destination embassy.
Read full text →| Item | Fee |
|---|---|
Notarial signature certification | THB 800–THB 1,500/document |
Certified true copy | THB 500–THB 1,000/document |
Certified translation | THB 800–THB 2,500/page |
Same-day rush handling | THB 1,500–THB 3,000/job |
Listed prices are approximate starting rates and may vary based on document complexity, quantity, and specific requirements. The final price stated in your formal quotation shall prevail. Read full Terms →
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Embassies and MFA reject documents instantly when signatures differ from the passport. Always sign in front of the notary and bring the original passport.
Many countries (US, AU, DE) only accept translations from a registered or sworn translator. Use a NAATI-certified, sworn, or court-recognised translator.
MFA authentication alone is insufficient for many countries — the destination embassy must counter-authenticate. Allow 5–10 working days for the embassy step.
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Registered Notary Public Firm · Reg. 04045565001923 · Lawyers Council of Thailand
All documents are signed and sealed by Notarial Services Attorneys registered under the Lawyers Council of Thailand B.E. 2551 / 2566 regulations, ready for Consular Legalization at Thailand's MFA and any destination embassy.
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Thailand clients most frequently pick the "Translation + Notary + Apostille" bundle, accounting for 64% of orders.
A student from Thailand contacted us Friday 17:48, hours before a Canadian university deadline closing Monday morning. Our express team intook transcripts, education certificates, a name-change record and passport via e-Document within 30 minutes. Translators worked overnight, delivering drafts Saturday 08:00; the client approved at 09:30; the attorney notarised at 11:00 and dispatched a PDF with digital signature plus QR verification by 13:20. Total turnaround: 19h 32m, express fee ฿6,200 — proof that Notary Public (Notarial Services Attorney) in Thailand can run even on the tightest deadlines.
Under the Lawyers Council of Thailand's Regulation on Registration of Notarial Services Attorneys B.E. 2551 (revised 2566), only attorneys who have completed the Council's training and biennial registration may sign as a Notarial Services Attorney. Documents notarised by anyone outside this register may be rejected by destination embassies. Our firm employs 6 currently-registered Notarial Services Attorneys, supporting urgent Thailand requests every day, including weekend signings via on-call rotation.
DIY: 2-4 trips, 7-14 days, hidden costs in travel/parking/work hours. Broker: cheap headline price but no attorney QC, high rejection risk. Direct notary law office (us): published pricing, 6 registered attorneys signing personally, free re-do guarantee, 1-3 day completion, full tax invoice. For Thailand clients, option 3 wins on time, cost and legal risk.
| Tier | Scope | Price (THB) | Turnaround |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | Notary Public (Notarial Services Attorney) 1-3 docs in Thailand | ฿1,500 | 2-3 business days |
| Plus | Translation + Notary + Apostille (4-7 docs) | ฿4,750 | 3-5 business days |
| Enterprise | Corporate 8+ docs + dedicated PM | ฿8,000 | 5-7 business days |
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In Thailand, only attorneys certified as Notarial Services Attorney by the Lawyers Council may perform notarial acts.
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Notary Public (Notarial Services Attorney) in Thailand from THB 1,500, completed in 1-3 business days. International-grade certification by registered professionals. Step-by-step guidance — you always know what comes next. Call +66-94-895-8999 or LINE @THAINOTARY to get started.
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Compare Thai Notary Law Service vs DIY vs typical agencies (price range ฿1,500–฿8,000)
| Criterion | Thai Notary Law Service | DIY | Typical agency |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-in price | ✓ โปร่งใส แจ้งล่วงหน้า | ✗ ค่าธรรมเนียมซ่อน | ~ บวกค่าเอเจน 30-50% |
| Turnaround | ✓ 1-3 วันทำการ | ✗ 7-14 วัน | ~ 3-7 วัน |
| Licensed notarial attorney | ✓ ใช่ | ✗ ไม่มี | ~ ไม่ทุกเคส |
| Worldwide online support | ✓ ส่งทั่วโลก 2,500 บาท | ✗ ต้องเดินทางเอง | ~ บางราย |
| Pre-engagement consultation | ✓ ฟรี ทางไลน์ 24/7 | — | ~ คิดค่าปรึกษา |
| Work guarantee | ✓ แก้จนใช้งานได้ | — | ~ มีเงื่อนไข |
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