Family Law

1. Increases: Proceedings that allow requesting a higher amount of alimony.
2. Reductions: Proceedings that allow requesting a lower amount of alimony due to changed circumstances and the impossibility of paying the existing amount.
3. Exoneration: Processes that allow the complete elimination of the alimony obligation.
4. Alimony fixation: Proceedings that allow requesting an amount of alimony, either in favor of minor children, older children, between spouses or other family members with economic dependence.
5. Enforcement: To enforce in court the agreements that were taken by mutual agreement or that were fixed in another judicial venue and that are not being fulfilled.

Processes that allow us to request protection measures in a situation of aggression between family members or elderly people.

1. Contentious: Request for divorce before the family court (when one of the spouses does not wish to sign).
2. Mutual agreement: Fast divorce procedure that is carried out before a notary public, without the need of a confrontation in the courts.
3. Distribution of community property: Advance liquidation of community property or liquidation under the consensual regime or in its absence under the supplementary legal regime (i.e. the judge is the one who indicates how the distribution of the property corresponds).

Processes that allow a couple that is united in marriage to separate legally and with the respective liquidation of their assets but without dissolving their marriage bond.

1. Communication and contact regime: Known as visitation regime, it is necessary to file it when both parents do not agree on the visits and the way in which the non-resident parent (i.e. the one who does not live with the minor children) will interact with his or her children.
2. Permission to leave the country: When either parent does not wish to grant authorization for the minor children to leave the country, this authorization can be requested from the judge.
3. Suspension: When the father or mother is not fit to live with or interfere in the life of their children, the suspension of the attributes of parental responsibility (commonly known as parental authority) can be requested until these causes of risk cease or if they do not cease, it will be maintained permanently.
4. Modification of guardianship of minors: When both parents do not live under the same roof, it is necessary to decide with whom the minor will live, this guardianship can be modified depending on the aptitudes of the parents and the opinion of the minor.

A proceeding to appoint a representative for a minor when his or her parents are no longer living.

Proceedings in which a representative is appointed to a person of legal age who does not have the capacity to represent himself/herself.

1. Domestic
2. International
3. Families (heterosexual and homoparental)
4. Individual
5. Minors
6. Seniors

1. Paternity investigation: when a person has only their maternal surname and wishes to register also their paternal surname.
2. Paternity declaration: Process that allows a presumed father who wishes to confirm that he is indeed the father of the child.
3. Request for authorization for recognition: Process that allows the father to recognize his children with a judicial authorization, because the mother did not allow the recognition.
4. Challenge of recognition: Process that allows a person to remove his paternal surname because the one he has is not that of his biological father.
5. Recognition of a married woman’s child: A process that a biological father raises in order to give his surname to his son or daughter who was registered as the child of a third party because he was presumed to have been born within the mother’s marriage.

Process that allows granting full property rights to a couple who lived together but never married.