Who We Are
Moradok Law — our story and our purpose
Moradok Law was founded in Bangkok with one straightforward intention: to make inheritance and estate matters less daunting for the families and individuals who have to navigate them. The word moradok (มรดก) means inheritance in Thai — it felt like the right name for a practice built entirely around this area of law.
Our founding solicitor spent several years working within a larger commercial firm before deciding to set up a practice focused solely on estates, wills, and the legal steps that follow a bereavement. The decision came after watching too many families spend months confused by paperwork they had never expected to face, often at an already tender time.
From our office on Chaeng Watthana Road, we work with clients across Bangkok and beyond — Thai families, expatriates, and people managing estates that straddle two countries. Many of our clients come to us through a recommendation from someone we have helped before, and we regard that as one of the more meaningful measures of our work.
We deliberately keep the practice focused rather than broad. Estate and inheritance law in Thailand has its own particular characteristics — the relationship between Thai and foreign ownership, the rules governing statutory heirs, the administrative steps involved in probate — and we have built our knowledge around these specifics rather than spreading our attention across every area of law.
The people who come to us are often dealing with more than a legal matter. They are managing grief, family dynamics, property in a country whose laws they may not know well, or a will that turns out to be less clear than the person who wrote it intended. We try to be genuinely useful to them — not just technically correct, but actually helpful.
We work in English and Thai, and we are accustomed to advising clients who are based outside of Thailand and managing an estate here by phone and email.
Our People
The solicitors and staff you will meet
Khunying Thitaporn
Principal Solicitor
Called to the Thai Bar in 2008, Khunying has specialised in estate and inheritance law for more than a decade. She advises on both Thai and cross-border estates with patience and precision.
Pieter Wijnen
Associate Solicitor
Pieter works primarily with expatriate clients and international estates, advising on the intersection of Thai inheritance law and foreign asset arrangements.
Nattaya Sombat
Client Liaison & Paralegal
Nattaya manages client correspondence and document preparation, and is often the first person clients speak with when they reach out to us.
Our Standards
How we conduct our work
Thai Bar Association membership
All solicitors at Moradok Law are registered members of the Lawyers Council of Thailand and hold current practising certificates.
Client confidentiality
Every client matter is treated as strictly private. We do not discuss client affairs outside the context of their case, and all documents are held securely.
Transparent fee agreements
Before any work begins, we provide a written summary of the scope and cost. Changes to scope are discussed and agreed in advance.
Bilingual service
We advise fluently in both English and Thai. Legal documents can be prepared in either language, or bilingual versions where required.
Court-ready documentation
Our document preparation follows the standards required by Thai civil courts, reducing the likelihood of procedural delays or rejections.
Ongoing professional development
Our solicitors attend training on Thai estate law developments and updates to civil and commercial code provisions that affect inheritance matters.
Our Approach
What guides us, day to day
Estate and inheritance cases in Thailand carry particular complexity for families with assets spread across different countries or with beneficiaries who are not Thai nationals. The legal framework under the Thai Civil and Commercial Code governs who qualifies as a statutory heir, how assets are ranked for distribution, and how disputes between beneficiaries are resolved. Navigating this with accuracy requires consistent, current knowledge of the law as it stands — not just a general familiarity with legal process.
Moradok Law focuses on this specific area because depth of knowledge matters. Families dealing with an estate rarely need a generalist; they need someone who has seen this kind of matter before, who knows where the common complications arise, and who can explain the path forward without unnecessary alarm.
We believe that good legal advice for estate matters has to be sensitive to more than the technical side. When someone contacts a solicitor about an inheritance, they are usually in the middle of something difficult. They may be grieving. They may be managing a family that is not fully in agreement. They may be working with limited knowledge of Thai law while handling matters from overseas.
Our role is to make that process more manageable — to handle the formal and procedural parts carefully, to explain things in plain terms, and to keep the people involved informed at each stage. We are not a firm that prioritises speed at the expense of care. We work steadily, and we keep the people we work with close to the process.
Ready to speak with someone?
If you have questions about an estate or would like to understand your options, we are pleased to arrange a conversation at a time that suits you. There is no commitment involved in making contact.
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