English Speaking Lawyer required for Debt Enforcement in Spain
Posted: 12 April 2009 08:00 PM  
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Hello,

Please accept my sincere apologies if I am asking in the wrong place.

First thing is I need to check the Real Estate Register to confirm the ownership of a Spanish Property near to Alicante.

Once ownership is confirmed I will need the services of a firm of lawyers to enforce the Judgement of an English Court.

Is it possible to make an application to check the register myself?

Can anyone recommend a bi-lingual lawyer whos experienced in this field and whos charges are reasonable. (Preferably with initial advice free).

Thanking you in advance.

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Posted: 12 April 2009 10:46 PM   [ # 1 ]  
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have pm me you ..... jurdy

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Posted: 13 April 2009 02:32 AM   [ # 2 ]  
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I take it you have an English Court Order that needs to be enforced here in Spain..

If So take note of the following…

When A Court of A European Country makes a “Court Order” to Someone or For Something in another country IE Europe it does not necessarily mean that the country that the “Court Order Issued to”  will carry it out

UNLESS THE FOLLOWING….. (1.2.3 Updated Since the G20 Meeting London 2009)

1) Terrorism
2) Money Laundering
3) “Other Fraud”
4) Murder
5) Paedophile / Risk To Life / or Risk to Others / Risk to Itself.

If its none of the above There will be another Court Case (In The Country The Order was Made too) to review ?The Court Order” and see if there is any Legal issues with there Country’s Laws. (In Other Words another Expense)

If its for “debt” or “Property Repo”  (Secure or Non Secure Debt) I wish you luck as in Spain there is a 10 year back log in over seas Court orders and its high risk nothing happens as a Spanish Judge always Denys the order To that country unless for one of the things above…..

I hope the above makes sense to you I studied EU Law for 5 years and its the most difficult and pain taking task!!!!!

I wish you a lot of luck with your task at hand…

Mac

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Posted: 27 June 2009 03:15 AM   [ # 3 ]  
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Hi Postapart..
I wish you luck in your endeavour.
Mac knows what he is talking about.
I don’t want to rain on your case… but I just had a two year fight (those ‘who know’ say I am lucky I got as far as I did!!!)....
I am just about to start my road to recovery (emotinoally) over the whole experience.
Mine was a ‘simple’ road traffic accident (hardly accident - the boy racer ran us off the road -then legged it!!!)...
but I soon found out - NO ONE TAKES RESPONSIBILITY -
Not the insurance cos, not the lawyers, not the police, not the judge!!!

Please be careful when hiring a lawyer- I think the adage of ‘they will squeeze you for whatever they can get’ is true.
I found a ‘bi-lingual’ lawyer via the British consulate website of ‘approved lawyers’ - and finally he admitted (when everything had gone wrong!!!!) that he didn’t feel up to the bi-lingual bit at all!!!!

Please think long and hard before starting down this road.

I remember there being a website something like ‘Costa Action Group’ who are a group of Ex Pats who lost a lot of money to a dodgy property developer (very familiar story sadly!)...

Take care and good luck…

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