Buying, selling, renting, mortgages, law and tax, written so you can decide when you finish reading
This is not decided by the forty million or the one rai, but by a single document signed on transfer day. Here is the personal property certification, the lawful routes for the foreign partner, and what happens on divorce and on death.
Section 1705 makes a will defective in form void, with no way to repair it later. Here are the rules for the two forms people write themselves, the ten most common failures, and the witness trap.
For an ordinary single house the two routes cost much the same, which makes this a decision about control rather than tax. Here is what changes on transfer day, the tools that let you give without losing your home, and how narrow revocation really is.
Lawful where open space and setbacks are met, but the trouble starts the day somebody wants to sell. Here is why a house belongs to the landowner, the two ways to divide, and the partition right that cannot be signed away.
Clause 41 measures the setback from the centre of the road, not its edge, which is where most people go wrong. Here are the figures that actually apply, what follows a shortfall, and the checks to run before the piles go in.
A building lawfully erected before its area was declared a control zone is not retrospectively unlawful, but three things still apply. Here they are, along with what a buyer of an older house should check.
There are three ways this ends: change the drawings, change the building, or demolish. Which applies depends on what the departure was about rather than how large it was. Here are the four levels, the process, and the consequences that arrive anyway.
The Ministry of Finance owns treasury land and the Treasury Department administers it, so private parties may only lease. Here is how leasing works, who owns buildings put up on it, and what to verify if somebody offers to sell you rights.
Section 34 of the Sangha Act allows ownership of temple and monastic land to pass only by an Act of Parliament, and bars prescription against a temple. Here are the three categories, how leasing works, and what to check before buying near a temple.
The dividing line is 1 December 1954. Land occupied and worked before then can be titled, while taking state land afterwards creates no rights at all. Here are the two routes available, the evidence needed to prove possession, and when to walk away.
Sor Por Kor 4-01 is a permit to use the land, not a deed and not ownership, and section 39 bars transfer to others, so a private sale conveys nothing. Here are the restrictions, the permitted uses, what the agricultural title deed changes, and the options if money has been paid.
Section 155 makes the front transaction void and applies the law of the concealed one, but you must prove it, and once the land reaches a buyer in good faith the door closes. Here are the five patterns that occur, the evidence courts weigh, and the lawful alternatives.
