Defend your rights

We advise and represent clients in settlements of all types of commercial and personal disputes involving, arbitration and negotiations. We also appear before Courts, Tribunals and Government bodies as advocates. The Department has particular expertise in the following matters: -Family law, including divorce, court agreements and family-rights claims.

The litigation department of the Spanish law firm Puerta Vides is headed by Spanish Lawyer (Abogado) Alvaro Diaz Ballesta. Alvaro specialises in Spanish litigation in all areas of Spanish civil, commercial law and family law. We aim to provide our English speaking clients with a high level of quality service. Providing clients with clearly explained Spanish legal advice in English and with regular updates on the progress of their Spanish Court proceedings.

Examples of areas covered by the Spanish litigation department:

• Lease proceedings: Eviction, claims for rents, contract terminations
• Actions against developers.
• Border disputes between neighbours in relation to land ownership and borders.
• Traffic Accidents.
• Action for payment of contractual Debts.
• Divorce.
• Enforcement of Foreign judgements in the Spanish Courts.
• Property contract actions.

If you have a debtor in Spain and wish to claim the payment of outstanding invoices or any other type of debt resulting from a business relationship, you must take into account that before starting any legal proceedings, you must first follow a certain process in order to make sure that you can recover the claim. Due to the great amount of people that come over to Spain every year and decide to invest in the country, it is becoming increasingly common to see how Solicitors from other countries in Europe and overseas require to enforce sentences that have been passed abroad but concern people with assets in Spain.

Separation between a couple may be ?ede facto?f separation (the spouses decide to live separate and apart from each other, though they are still married); and judicial separation which may be by mutual agreement or a litigious one. u8232 Divorce is legally established in Spain since 1981. Foreigners who have been married in other countries can, if one of the parties is now resident in Spain, obtain a divorce here that will be recognised in their country. u8232 According to the last Civil Code reform, there is no need to ask firstly for the legal separation, you can even ask for the divorce directly. The only requirement is the spouses should have been married for three months, and divorce may be by mutual agreement or litigious one.

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