December 2009

The answer is no in what refers to the relevant and substantial legal aspects of the Probate. The Spanish Civil Code (Código Civil) indicates that the national Law of each person at the time of their death will be the one legally governing their inheritance....

  (From a recent binding official reply to a formal consultation made to the Spanish Central Tax Office)   The legal arrangement of the Trust is not recognized as such by the Spanish legal system. The Convention of The Hague internationally applicable to the Trust and its recognition...

In general terms there is not such a protection’s possibility really. The tenant is legally more protected and the Spanish Law requires that a home contract be renewable for a minimum of five years, just subject to the tenant’s non-resignable right to decide so. However...

Yes, on certain circumstances, such as the devious avoidance of funds after the sale, the operation you refer to could be a criminal offence according to the Spanish Penal Code when it could be demonstrated that you, as the debtor, knew, even in an extrajudicial...