Business partnerships in Thailand often break down long after the company was registered, and by then the paperwork rarely favours the person who was excluded. A foreign investor discovers the Thai director has transferred a company asset. A minority shareholder is kept out of meetings and never sees the accounts. A board resolution appears that was never actually voted on. Thai company law gives shareholders real remedies in these situations, but those remedies are narrower than most people assume, and several are lost within weeks. This guide explains what directors owe the company, what a shareholder can and cannot sue for, how to challenge an improper resolution, and what to do when a company becomes deadlocked.

Rental disputes are among the most common legal problems foreigners face in Thailand, whether as a tenant who has lost a deposit or been locked out, or as an owner stuck with someone who has stopped paying. Thai lease law is short, old, and unforgiving of assumptions. A thirty-year villa lease can be enforceable for only three. A landlord who evicts too quickly can lose the case. A tenant who signed a clause without reading it may have given away rights the law would otherwise have protected. This guide explains how leases work under Thai law, what each side can and cannot do when things go wrong, and how eviction actually happens.

When a marriage ends, nothing matters more than what happens to the children, and this is the area where Thai law departs most sharply from what foreign parents expect. Thailand does not use the language of joint and sole custody. Instead it works with parental power, a defined bundle of legal rights over a child, and it asks a single question when deciding who should hold it: what serves the welfare and interests of the child. This guide explains how parental power is allocated on divorce, how it can later be changed, the right of contact that survives regardless of who holds it, how child support is fixed, and the special position of children born outside marriage.

Winning a case in Thailand and actually getting paid are two different things. Many creditors discover this the hard way: they obtain a judgment, assume the money will follow, and then find years later that the debtor has moved assets, or worse, that the right to enforce has expired altogether. Thai law gives creditors real teeth, including seizure of property, attachment of bank accounts and salary, and bankruptcy proceedings. But it also regulates how debts may be demanded in the first place, and it imposes a hard deadline on enforcement. This guide explains how debt collection in Thailand works from the first demand letter through to seizure and sale, and the traps that cost creditors their money.

A supplier fails to deliver. A builder abandons a half-finished villa. A business partner simply stops paying. Contracts are broken in Thailand every day, and when it happens the injured party usually has a stronger legal position than they realise, provided they act correctly and quickly. Thai law gives you the right to demand performance, to terminate, and to claim damages, but each remedy has conditions, and some of the most valuable rights are lost by simply waiting. This guide explains what counts as a breach of contract in Thailand, the remedies available to you, how Thai courts calculate damages, why penalty clauses are not always enforced as written, and the time limits that decide whether you can sue at all.

Road accidents, slip-and-falls, and other injuries happen to foreigners in Thailand every day, and Phuket's busy roads make them especially common. When they do, most people have the same two questions: who pays, and how much? Thai law gives an injured person a clear right to compensation from whoever caused the harm, but the amounts, the deadlines, and the evidence required are very different from those in Western countries. This guide explains how personal injury claims in Thailand work for foreigners, what compensation the law allows, the special rules for road accidents, and the strict time limit that decides whether you can claim at all.