Prepare Your Thailand Will Instructions

This guided questionnaire helps you organise the information needed to prepare a Thailand-specific Last Will and Testament covering assets situated in Thailand.

It is primarily intended for foreign nationals who own assets in Thailand and want to identify their beneficiaries, appoint an executor, make specific gifts and determine how the remainder of their Thailand estate should be distributed.

This questionnaire does not itself create or execute a Last Will. It produces a structured summary of your instructions that can be used when completing a Thailand Will template or when requesting a professional document review.
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1. About You

Start with basic information about the person making the Will. Exact identification details can be added later.

Enter your name as you normally use it in official documents.
You do not need to provide an identification number to use this questionnaire.

2. Scope of Your Thailand Will

A Thailand-specific Will can be used for assets situated in Thailand while separate estate planning may apply to assets in another country.

Do you already have another Will dealing with assets outside Thailand?
A general description is sufficient. Exact account numbers or title details are not necessary at this stage.

3. Beneficiaries and Distribution

Add the people or organisations you want to benefit from your Thailand estate. Identification numbers are not required for this questionnaire.

Leave blank if you simply want your Thailand estate distributed between the beneficiaries listed above.
This is the residuary estate: property not otherwise specifically given under the Will.
Is any intended beneficiary under 20 years of age?
Arrangements involving inheritance by a minor may require additional drafting or review.

4. Executor

The executor is the person you nominate to administer your estate and, where required, apply to the Thai court for appointment as estate administrator.

A substitute executor can act if the primary executor dies, cannot act or does not wish to act.

5. Additional Instructions

These questions are optional. Leave them blank if they are not relevant.

6. Review Your Will Instructions

Check the information below. You can go back and change any answer before copying, printing or downloading your instructions.

Prepare the Final Thailand Will

The Thai-English Last Will Pack contains editable Will templates together with practical completion and signing instructions for assets situated in Thailand.

View the Thai-English Last Will Pack

About a Standard Written Will in Thailand

This questionnaire is designed around the ordinary written form of Will under section 1656 of the Thai Civil and Commercial Code.

A Will in this form must be made in writing and dated. The testator must sign the Will in the presence of at least two witnesses who are present at the same time, and the witnesses must sign to attest the testator's signature.

An ordinary written Will under section 1656 does not have to be made or registered at the Amphur. Thai law provides separate formalities for other forms of Will, including a public-document Will and a secret-document Will.

For further legal information see Last Will and Testament in Thailand.

Official source: Department of Provincial Administration (กรมการปกครอง), official guidance on forms of wills and the ordinary written Will under section 1656 of the Civil and Commercial Code.