Legal support in Spain

Immigration law

Moving to Spain, obtaining residence, regularising your stay and preparing documents all require knowledge of immigration procedures. AXEN helps you define a possible route and organises the preparation of documents with specialists in the field.

How we can help

• Initial assessment of your immigration situation
• Obtaining and renewing residence permits
• Residence for family members of Spanish and EU citizens
• Family reunification
• Regularisation on arraigo grounds
• Non-lucrative residence (residencia no lucrativa)
• Digital nomad residence
• NIE, TIE and related procedures
• Changing your type of residence
• Support with obtaining citizenship

Outcome for the client: a clear regularisation plan, a prepared set of documents and organised support throughout the procedure.

Employment matters

AXEN helps with employment relationships, dismissal, hiring and protecting the rights of employees and employers, working with employment law specialists.

How we can help

• Reviewing employment contracts
• Support with hiring
• Hiring foreign workers
• Dismissal by the employer
• Unfair dismissal
• Reviewing compensation
• Reviewing the finiquito
• Unpaid wages
• Workplace injuries
• Disputes over working conditions
• Employment mediation
• Representation in employment courts through authorised specialists

Outcome for the client: an assessment of the employment situation, a definition of the claims and support in protecting your rights.

Property law (derecho inmobiliario)

AXEN organises checks of documents and contracts when buying, selling and renting property, helping to reduce legal risks.

How we can help

• Legal checks before buying or renting
• Checking the owner, charges and debts
• Nota Simple and the Registro de la Propiedad
• Contrato de arras
• Purchase and sale contracts
• Transactions before a notary
• Legal aspects of mortgages
• Registering ownership

Outcome for the client: lower legal risks and protection of the interests of the parties to the transaction.

Notarial support

AXEN organises dealings with notaries, document preparation, translations and the international formalisation of notarial deeds.

How we can help

• Notary appointments
• Preparing the document file
• General and special powers of attorney
• Powers of attorney for Spain and other countries
• Powers of attorney for property and business
• Wills
• Notarial property transactions
• Sworn and standard translations
• Apostille
• Bilingual documents, as agreed with the notary
• Coordinating the notary and the translator
• Notarial copies

Outcome for the client: a notarial procedure organised around the purpose of the document and the country where it will be used.

Family law

AXEN organises support for family legal matters, including international situations, with specialist lawyers.

How we can help

• Marriage
• Pareja de hecho (registered partnership)
• Divorce by mutual consent
• Contested divorce
• International divorce
• Recognition of foreign divorce decisions
• Agreements between spouses
• Division of property
• Prenuptial agreements
• Child support arrears
• International recovery of child support
• Establishing and contesting paternity

Outcome for the client: support with the family matter, taking into account the children’s interests and international circumstances.

Inheritance

AXEN organises inheritance procedures in Spain, including for heirs living abroad.

How we can help

• Advice on inheritance law
• Notarial formalisation
• Inheriting property
• Bank accounts and assets
• International inheritance
• Inheritance by foreign nationals
• Asset valuation
• Inheritance tax
• Division of the estate
• Property registration

Outcome for the client: a clear sequence of steps and support in formalising the inheritance.

Appeals and court matters (recursos administrativos)

AXEN helps organise a review of an administrative decision and an assessment of deadlines and possible routes of appeal, helps find a lawyer, and coordinates the documents and communication between the parties to court proceedings.

How we can help

• Disputes with public authorities
• Court appeals through lawyers
• Finding a lawyer
• Civil cases
• Contract disputes
• Debt recovery
• Property disputes
• Real estate and rental disputes
• Employment and family proceedings
• Consumer protection
• Translation of court documents

How AXEN works

1. You describe your situation.
2. AXEN clarifies your request.
3. Agrees the plan with you.
4. Brings in the right specialist.
5. Coordinates the process.

Your legal matter — our job is to organise the solution

There is no need to search for a lawyer, notary and translator on your own or work out the order of steps. AXEN helps define the necessary steps, find the right specialists and organise support for your matter.

AXEN Spain — one point of contact, many solutions.

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