Family Law and Successions

Marval has a team of specialists in complex successions and divorces, family estate planning, and conflicts in family businesses.

 

We provide a wide range of services, including:

  • Marital property regime: analysis of the convenience of opting for the community property or separation of property regimes; planning, drafting, and implementing marital agreements; recommendations for managing assets and/or potential modifications to the property regime during marriage.
  • Negotiation and execution of agreements between former spouses regarding the effects of divorce, including: allocation of the family home, division of assets, economic compensation and/or post-divorce alimony, parental responsibility and communication regime with the children.
  • Acting in divorce and property liquidation trials, incidents of determination of community property extinction date, temporary injunctions, economic compensation, and other complex issues arising from the dissolution of a marriage and its property regime.
  • Rights derived from cohabitation: cohabitation agreements, issues related to assets acquired during the cohabitation, potential economic compensations, protection and attribution of the family home and parental responsibility.
  • Inheritance and estate planning: disposition of gifts during life, drafting and instrumentation of wills, partition of assets during life.
  • Conflict prevention in family businesses and intervention when formalizing agreements and protocols.
  • Intervention in probate and intestate succession proceedings with domestic and foreign components.
  • Participation in processes of determination of capacity, advance directives, and acts of self-protection.
  • Advice in filiation matters.