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Dear Sir,
You can sign a power of attorney in UK following the instructions from your lawyer , if you sign it in english then it needs to be translated into spanish overhere , it is a good idea to sign it in Spanish even before an english notary public ( if they accept it ) and then apostille it although the ideal is to sign it to sign it at any Spanish Consulate.
The alternative is to sign it when you come to Spain and meet who is going to be your lawyer, lawyers in Spain are reputable professionals and you can trust them absolutely (but don’t take the agencie’s lawyer) , 99% of my colleagues in the Costa del Sol are honest and good professionals so they should be in the Region of Murcia.
Anyway in a power to buy you don’t give so much power to your lawyer, it is mainly buy a property , deal with the Tax Office, sign private documemts prioir or after the deeds and g the NIE for you, it shoulnd’t include any more.
Regards,
Jose María Sánchez Alfonso
Lawyer / Abogado
Málaga
Costa del Sol,
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@Independent wrote:
Dear Sir,
You can sign a power of attorney in UK following the instructions from your lawyer , if you sign it in english then it needs to be translated into spanish overhere , it is a good idea to sign it in Spanish even before an english notary public ( if they accept it ) and then apostille it although the ideal is to sign it to sign it at any Spanish Consulate.
The alternative is to sign it when you come to Spain and meet who is going to be your lawyer, lawyers in Spain are reputable professionals and you can trust them absolutely (but don’t take the agencie’s lawyer) , 99% of my colleagues in the Costa del Sol are honest and good professionals so they should be in the Region of Murcia.
Anyway in a power to buy you don’t give so much power to your lawyer, it is mainly buy a property , deal with the Tax Office, sign private documemts prioir or after the deeds and g the NIE for you, it shoulnd’t include any more.
Regards,
Jose María Sánchez Alfonso
Lawyer / Abogado
Málaga
Costa del Sol,
jmsalfonso@inicia.esI am sorry I cannot agree with your statement “lawyers in Spain are reputable professionals and you can trust them absolutely “. I was unfortunate to use a lawyer upon relocating from one Costa to the other and ended up with a legal “nightmare” which 12 months on is still no nearer to resolving. 🙁
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to the last comment, You probably made a wrong election of lawyer, but this could also happen in UK. I am sorry about the problems you had or have. I wish you good luck and success.
To the main question, to the observations of my colleage Mr Alfonso I would add that the power of attorney should be limited to a certain period of time. However, think that nobody is going to buy a property for another person without receiving sufficient funds for it.
About taking money from bank accounts, I recommend that the power of attorney entitles only to take nominatives bankers draft, but not cash, so you limit the risk if that person was dishonest.
Good Luck
Juan Bertomeu Vallés
Real Estate& Planning Lawyer
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Hello everybody. I am a new member to this group and am in the process of buying propertiers in Spain with a friend.
Something interesting happened when I signed the Power of Attorney (POA). I signed with OTHER people, meaning that I am in a group of people all of whom have given POA to a single lawyer. Apparently the notary protects the business this way because if there are too many POA’s then another office should open.
Does anybody know how I can withdraw from this POA, after completing on the purchase please. Once we are finished, I want to close this down – for myself – BUT NOT AFFECT the other people.
Thanks
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Hello everybody. I am a new member to this group and am in the process of buying propertiers in Spain with a friend.
Something interesting happened when I signed the Power of Attorney (POA). I signed with OTHER people, meaning that I am in a group of people all of whom have given POA to a single lawyer. Apparently the notary protects the business this way because if there are too many POA’s then another office should open.
Does anybody know how I can withdraw from this POA, after completing on the purchase please. Once we are finished, I want to close this down – for myself – BUT NOT AFFECT the other people.
Thanks
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@Anonymous wrote:
@Independent wrote:
Dear Sir,
You can sign a power of attorney in UK following the instructions from your lawyer , if you sign it in english then it needs to be translated into spanish overhere , it is a good idea to sign it in Spanish even before an english notary public ( if they accept it ) and then apostille it although the ideal is to sign it to sign it at any Spanish Consulate.
The alternative is to sign it when you come to Spain and meet who is going to be your lawyer, lawyers in Spain are reputable professionals and you can trust them absolutely (but don’t take the agencie’s lawyer) , 99% of my colleagues in the Costa del Sol are honest and good professionals so they should be in the Region of Murcia.
Anyway in a power to buy you don’t give so much power to your lawyer, it is mainly buy a property , deal with the Tax Office, sign private documemts prioir or after the deeds and g the NIE for you, it shoulnd’t include any more.
Regards,
Jose María Sánchez Alfonso
Lawyer / Abogado
Málaga
Costa del Sol,
jmsalfonso@inicia.esI am sorry I cannot agree with your statement “lawyers in Spain are reputable professionals and you can trust them absolutely “. I was unfortunate to use a lawyer upon relocating from one Costa to the other and ended up with a legal “nightmare” which 12 months on is still no nearer to resolving. 🙁
I agree with my colleague. There are four or five law firms you ought to avoid in the CDS. PM Mark, the web administrator for details on them.
Those 4 or 5 law firms are no more than 40 lawyers in Málaga province. We are nearly 4.000 lawyers in Málaga. As I’ve posted again and again, 1% of bad lawyers(=40) are giving the other 99% a tainted reputation.
POA should always be very restricted to a given property etc.. I would seldomly give general powers to a lawyer. Same as in the UK.
Bottomline is that POA ought to be specific.
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@Anonymous wrote:
@Independent wrote:
Dear Sir,
You can sign a power of attorney in UK following the instructions from your lawyer , if you sign it in english then it needs to be translated into spanish overhere , it is a good idea to sign it in Spanish even before an english notary public ( if they accept it ) and then apostille it although the ideal is to sign it to sign it at any Spanish Consulate.
The alternative is to sign it when you come to Spain and meet who is going to be your lawyer, lawyers in Spain are reputable professionals and you can trust them absolutely (but don’t take the agencie’s lawyer) , 99% of my colleagues in the Costa del Sol are honest and good professionals so they should be in the Region of Murcia.
Anyway in a power to buy you don’t give so much power to your lawyer, it is mainly buy a property , deal with the Tax Office, sign private documemts prioir or after the deeds and g the NIE for you, it shoulnd’t include any more.
Regards,
Jose María Sánchez Alfonso
Lawyer / Abogado
Málaga
Costa del Sol,
jmsalfonso@inicia.esI am sorry I cannot agree with your statement “lawyers in Spain are reputable professionals and you can trust them absolutely “. I was unfortunate to use a lawyer upon relocating from one Costa to the other and ended up with a legal “nightmare” which 12 months on is still no nearer to resolving. 🙁
I agree with my colleague. There are four or five law firms you ought to avoid in the CDS. PM Mark, the web administrator for details on them.
Those 4 or 5 law firms are no more than 40 lawyers in Málaga province. We are nearly 4.000 lawyers in Málaga. As I’ve posted again and again, 1% of bad lawyers(=40) are giving the other 99% a tainted reputation.
POA should always be very restricted to a given property etc.. I would seldomly give general powers to a lawyer. Same as in the UK.
Bottomline is that POA ought to be specific.
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If you use a good Notary in the UK, such as the one I use in Picadilly. London, they are prepared to draw up a simultaneousley translated text. i.e. half the page in English with the Spanish translation at the side. Thus you don’t need to get an official translation since the document is produced by an office with a recognised Spanish Notary in house. It also saves carrying around 2 documents and you can easily check the meaning.
Terry English
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If you use a good Notary in the UK, such as the one I use in Picadilly. London, they are prepared to draw up a simultaneousley translated text. i.e. half the page in English with the Spanish translation at the side. Thus you don’t need to get an official translation since the document is produced by an office with a recognised Spanish Notary in house. It also saves carrying around 2 documents and you can easily check the meaning.
Terry English
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Hi Terry,
This idea of a half english half spanish document has been suggested to me today and seems like a good idea.
Deos anybody know of a site where I can get a list of English based Lawyers/Notarys ??
I am looking for one in the Manchester/North West area.
Stef
Try this link:
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Regarding Spanish Lawyers, I have just spoken to mine even though he is on holiday skiing with his son! He was more than happy to answer my questions, give his advice and time and had even answered my email via an internet cafe near Andorra. I doubt I would get such personal service here in the UK.
Many thanks Juan, I hope you visit this forum soon and that many other people buying in the costa blanca use your excellent service in the future!
Linda
p.s. would recommend him 100% anyone who wants his details can visit http://www.iurisconsulting.net (hope you don’t mind the recommendation on the forum Mark!)
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