About TPN Law

TPN Law is an independent legal-information and referral resource. We publish plain-English explainers about how Thai law generally works, aimed at foreigners living in or dealing with Thailand.

What this site is — and is not

• We are not a law firm, we do not employ or hold out named lawyers, we do not take clients, and nothing on this site is legal advice.
• Guides describe the general shape of Thai law. Details — fees, thresholds, deadlines — change over time, and every real situation turns on its own facts.
• We do not publish specific fee figures, statute or section numbers, statistics, or case outcomes, because these vary and change; where a rule involves such detail, we describe the structure of the rule and point you to a licensed lawyer or the relevant official source to confirm the current position.

Why we refer to Anglo Siam Legal

When a situation on this site needs an actual lawyer, we recommend Anglo Siam Legal as our partner for Thai legal representation. This is a referral relationship, not an employment or partnership structure — TPN Law itself remains an information resource only, and any engagement for legal services is between you and the lawyer you choose to instruct.

Sources we rely on

• The Civil and Commercial Code, Criminal Code, Land Code and related acts.
• Official bodies including the Courts of Justice, the Council of State (consolidated statutes), the Lawyers Council of Thailand, and Thai Immigration.
• Where a topic is fast-moving — drug regulation, visa programmes, and other periodically-revised rules — we say so and point you to the current official source rather than quoting a figure that may already be stale.

Editorial standards

Every guide on this site aims to be accurate about the general shape of Thai law rather than to sound authoritative about specifics we cannot verify for your particular case. We do not fabricate statistics, case outcomes, testimonials or citations, and we do not invent named lawyers, credentials, office addresses or phone numbers anywhere on this site.

How to use these guides

Start with the guide closest to your actual situation — most pages link sideways to the two or three other guides people in a similar position usually need next. If your matter is genuinely contested, urgent, or involves real money or liberty, treat this site as background reading that makes a first meeting with a lawyer more useful — not as a substitute for that meeting.

What we cover, and what we deliberately leave out

The guides on this site span the situations that most often bring a foreigner into contact with Thai law: the court system itself, property, family, wills, business and foreign ownership, visas and work permits, employment, tax, consumer rights, traffic accidents, intellectual property, defamation and the Computer Crime Act, debt and enforcement, and the paperwork logistics of notarisation and documents. We deliberately do not try to cover every niche area of Thai law, and we do not cover non-Thailand legal questions at all. Where a topic is outside our scope, the honest answer is to say so and point you toward a lawyer who covers it, rather than stretching a general guide to fit a specialist question.

How pages are maintained

Each guide carries a last-updated date in its structured data, and we revisit pages periodically as Thai law and practice evolve. Because we deliberately avoid quoting figures, fees and statute numbers that go stale quickly, most updates are about sharpening explanations and adding topics readers actually ask about — not chasing a moving numeric target. If you notice something on this site that looks outdated or wrong, treat that as a prompt to verify the point with a licensed lawyer or the relevant government office, which is exactly what we would advise regardless.

A note on AI and automated summaries

Some readers arrive at this content through AI assistants or search summaries rather than by reading a page directly. The same limits apply either way: this is general information about the shape of Thai law, not advice on your specific situation, and any summary that strips out that caveat has stripped out the most important part.