Legal services in Palma de Mallorca
At PK Abogados Palma we work in the areas of law most in demand among individuals, families and businesses in Mallorca. Each matter is studied in detail, and you will receive a clear quotation before we begin.
Property law
Advice on transactions and disputes concerning real property, from the sale and purchase through to entry in the Land Registry.
- Sale and purchase of real property
- Urban and rural leases
- Usufruct, rights of use and easements over property
- Multi-owned property (propiedad horizontal) and division of properties
- Option to purchase and exchange agreements
- Land Registry: registration of acts and rights
- Property due diligence
- Resolution of disputes over boundaries, title or possession (Land Survey Register)
- Rights of first refusal and pre-emption (statutory or contractual)
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Enquire about this service: Property lawInmojudicial
Involvement in court and enforcement proceedings affecting real property.
- Court auctions of real property
- Seizures and preventive annotations in the Land Registry
- Mortgage enforcement (judicial or notarial)
- Evictions (for rent arrears or following mortgage enforcement)
- Court proceedings to divide jointly owned property
- Liquidation of real property in family proceedings (divorce, inheritance)
- Realisation of property assets in insolvency proceedings
- Third-party claims to ownership or priority over properties (tercerías)
- Applications for court-ordered possession of an awarded property (following an auction)
- Court valuation of properties (expert evidence at trial)
- Court award to creditors where an auction attracts no bidders
- Actions for the annulment or rescission of fraudulent property transfers
- Processing and registry monitoring after court proceedings (registration of decisions)
- Challenges to awards and incidents arising in compulsory enforcement
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Enquire about this service: InmojudicialAdministrative law for businesses and commercial activities
Legal support for businesses and commercial activities in their dealings with the town council and other public authorities.
- Municipal inspections of businesses
- Updates and revisions of activity projects
- Noise problems
- Complaints from the owners’ association and/or neighbours
- Municipal licence review proceedings
- Orders suspending building works
- Extensions of activity licences
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Enquire about this service: Administrative law for businesses and commercial activitiesEstate agency (Inmoluxy Real Estate)
Property brokerage services through Inmoluxy Real Estate.
- Sales and purchases
- Lettings
- Business transfers (traspasos)
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Enquire about this service: Estate agency (Inmoluxy Real Estate)Insolvency law
Legal solutions for individuals and companies facing insolvency.
- Personal insolvency (Second Chance Law procedure)
- Discharge of personal debts
- Insolvency proceedings for companies
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Enquire about this service: Insolvency lawInheritance and succession law
Handling of the inheritance at every stage, from opening the succession through to its registration.
- Opening of the succession
- Determining the basis of succession (testate, intestate or mixed)
- Identification of heirs and legatees
- Acceptance or renunciation of the inheritance
- Inventory and valuation of assets
- Partition of the inheritance
- Allocation of assets
- Settlement of taxes
- Entry in the Land Registry (where applicable)
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Enquire about this service: Inheritance and succession lawTown planning law
Representation of owners and developers in licences, proceedings and appeals relating to town planning.
- Planning licences (new build, refurbishment, first occupation, activity)
- Planning enforcement proceedings (penalties, demolition orders)
- Responsible declarations and prior notifications
- Compulsory purchase (in the public interest, with fair compensation)
- Occupation of public land (terraces, installations, rights of way)
- Technical building inspections (ITE) and maintenance orders
- Protection of historic heritage and listed properties
- Liability of the public authorities for damage relating to properties
- Land Survey Register matters and discrepancies between the Land Survey Register and the Land Registry
- Administrative appeals in town planning matters
- Applications for change of use of properties
- Regularisation of building works
- Orders suspending building works
- Habitability certificates (cédulas de habitabilidad) and energy performance certificates
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Enquire about this service: Town planning lawCivil liability
Bringing and defending claims where damage gives rise to an obligation to pay compensation.
- Personal injury claims (road traffic accidents, assaults, negligence)
- Property damage claims (vehicles, homes, belongings, etc.)
- Liability for animals or inanimate objects (falls caused by broken paving, falling branches, etc.)
- Liability for breach of contract with non-contractual effects
- Claims against insurance companies (compulsory and voluntary liability cover)
- Establishing fault and causation
- Quantification of damage and expert assessment (personal, non-pecuniary and financial loss)
- Out-of-court negotiation and pre-action claims
- Civil court proceedings for non-contractual liability
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Enquire about this service: Civil liabilityDebt recovery
Recovery of unpaid sums, from the amicable demand through to enforcement and seizure.
- Prior out-of-court demands (burofax, formal notices, emails)
- Negotiation and payment agreements (with or without acknowledgement of debt)
- Acknowledgement of debt by private or notarial document
- Payment order procedure (procedimiento monitorio, for liquidated, due, payable and documented debts)
- Oral or ordinary proceedings (depending on the amount or type of debt, if the payment order is opposed)
- Enforcement claims based on a title (judgment, settlement, public document)
- Enforcement of non-judicial titles (bills of exchange, promissory notes, cheques)
- Seizure of the debtor’s assets (accounts, salaries, properties, vehicles)
- Court demand for payment addressed to the debtor
- Default interest and penalty clauses
- Limitation and expiry of recovery actions
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Support through relationship breakdown and in matters affecting children and persons in need of protection.
- Separation and divorce (by mutual consent or contested)
- Interim and final measures in relationship breakdown proceedings
- Custody of minor children (sole, shared, etc.)
- Visitation and contact arrangements
- Child maintenance
- Spousal maintenance (pensión compensatoria)
- Division of the matrimonial property regime (community of property, separation of property)
- Variation of measures (following a change in circumstances)
- Enforcement of family judgments (for non-payment of maintenance, breach of contact arrangements, etc.)
- Marriage settlements and prenuptial agreements
- Unmarried couples and regulation of the financial consequences
- Claims to establish and challenges to parentage
- Adoption and fostering of minors
- Emancipation and parental authority
- Guardianship, curatorship and de facto care (persons with disabilities or minors)
- Court authorisation for acts affecting minors or persons lacking capacity (travel, inheritance, etc.)
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