Civil & Commercial Code §1657–1658 wills · executor-ready bilingual rendering · MoJ round-seal

Thai Will & Testament Translation — Probate & Cross-Border Estate Filing

A Thai holographic will drawn under Civil and Commercial Code Section 1657, or a formal will executed at the amphoe under Section 1658, has to travel intact into an overseas probate court before a foreign executor can distribute the Thai estate to heirs abroad. This SKU renders the Thai will into English (or the language of the probate forum) under a Ministry-of-Justice-registered translator's round-seal, preserving the Thai clause numbering, the amphoe witnessing marks and the testator's own handwriting cues so the receiving probate registrar reads a rendering the Thai courts themselves would recognise.

Quick answer: Thai Will & Testament Translation — Probate & Cross-Border Estate Filing — THB 2,500–5,500 · turnaround 5–7 business days. Rendered by a Ministry-of-Justice-registered translator, sealed with the translator's round-seal on every page and delivered with a Statement of Accuracy on the translator's letterhead — the artefact Thai courts and Thai ministries accept under Civil Procedure Code Section 46. Book on LINE @NYCLI or call +66 83 249 4999 (Mon–Sat 09:00–18:00 ICT).

What you receive

Delivery pack: full will rendered into the target language with Thai clause numbering preserved, amphoe witnessing marks and testator handwriting anomalies annotated in the translator's footnotes, MoJ round-seal per-page, Statement of Accuracy identifying the MoJ registration number, a one-page executor's cover memorandum identifying the type of will (Section 1657 holographic vs Section 1658 formal), and a bound hardcopy set couriered to the probate lawyer overseas.

Authority note

Rendered from the Ministry of Justice Rights and Liberties Protection Department registry. Format calibrated against Civil and Commercial Code Sections 1646–1710 (the Thai will regime), Bangkok Central Probate Court practice notes, and the intake conventions of the Grant of Probate registries in England & Wales, New South Wales, Singapore and California. Where the destination probate court also demands a Hague Apostille (Thailand December 2025 accession), we sequence the MFA-then-Apostille pipeline before dispatch.

Probate-court format
Executor/beneficiary term consistency
MoJ stamp + Notary optional

Standards & references

ประมวลกฎหมายแพ่งและพาณิชย์ บรรพ 6 (มรดก)

FAQ

Do you handle a will contested inside Thailand as well?

Yes — a contested Thai will heading into the Central Probate Court sits in the Court Bundle SKU alongside the pleadings and expert reports, with the same translator maintained across every exhibit for terminological consistency.

Can you translate a foreign will into Thai for a Thai probate filing?

Yes, and this is the more common direction. A UK, Australian or Singapore will translated into Thai under the MoJ seal is the artefact the Bangkok Central Probate Court expects when the deceased held Thai assets.

Do you take instructions from the executor overseas without a Thai lawyer in the loop?

Yes for the translation itself. The probate filing must be lodged by Thai-licensed counsel in Bangkok; we coordinate directly with the executor's overseas firm and copy the Bangkok lawyer once retained.

Ready to send the file?

LINE us the source document — we confirm the translator assignment, the per-page rate and the delivery slot inside thirty minutes during Bangkok business hours.

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Related services · internal guide

Document work is a chain: certification, translation and lodgement each have their own authority. These pages explain the neighbouring steps so you can plan the whole file, not just one stamp.

External references · official sources

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