SPANISH REAL ESTATE LAW: Communities of Owners. Owners (bare owners) and Holders of the Usufruct: Who must pay the community fees? and who is entitled to attend and vote at the community meetings?

Consultation: Dear Sirs,My wife and I own an apartment in Javea, in which my mother-in-law kept the usufruct (life interest). I wonder who should pay the community fees, if it should be my mother-in-law who is using the property, or ourselves as the owners. Also, I would like to know who should assist in the […]

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Spanish Banking Law: Cancellation of a CAM Bank’s preference shares sale to a retired women for not having satisfactorily informed her about the consequences of the transaction.

According to Europa Press, a Court of Segorbe (Castellón) has recently granted a court order anulling a sale of preference shares from the CAM bank to a pensioner, condemning CAM bank to return the money invested, plus legal interest and legal costs. According to the press, the judge decided to declare null and void the […]

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Spanish Inheritance Tax Rules and Law. Inheritance Tax and Probate Law in Spain. Inheritance Tax for British same sex couples: Civil Partnership and enforcement of the British Law in Spain.

CONSULTATION: Dear Sir: My partner (we are a same sex couple) is very sick. We went to see an advisor who informed us that since we are not married, although we are civil partners, I shall be considered in Spain for Inheritance Tax purposes as non relative or stranger, (Group IV), and therefore I will […]

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