Married a Thai fifty years ago and the majority posting here have no idea what goes on in Thai Family Life as they only hang in tourist towns and areas.
Paid from my bank account with PEA and the Water people who debt my account with no problem for a couple decades. BTW I have an account just for that and top it up as required.
great Visa and the Ranking Immigration Officet took great care of me! My point is some staff never read the "memo" So glad I bought the for 50K for 10 years with multiple exit reentry
I used a "New LTR Visa" recently at Nong khai and going in and out there were minor problems with Immagration not understanding how it works and a supervisor had to be called both exiting and entering and that "New Visa " is about two years old. Even Suvarnabhumi took a few months.