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Civil Law

Our firm offers legal services with vast experience in Civil Law, providing complete and tailor-made solutions for individual clients, companies and public entities. With an experienced team and in-depth knowledge of the Portuguese legal system, we provide advice across all areas of Civil Law, from preventive consultancy to court representation. We work with rigour, closeness and efficiency, always aiming to protect our clients’ rights and interests.

Practice Areas

Preventive Consultancy and Advisory

Drafting, analysis and litigation related to various types of contracts, including:

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  • Loan, deposit, mandate, commodatum, service provision, construction, purchase and sale, financial leasing and franchise agreements.

  • Negotiation, review and adaptation of general contractual clauses.

  • Out-of-court resolution of contractual disputes and representation in actions for breach, specific performance, termination and price reduction.

  • Constitution and enforcement of contractual guarantees, penalty clauses and default interest.

Civil Liability

Covering judicial actions for contractual or extra-contractual liability, including insurance matters, with focus on:

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  • Liability arising from high-risk activities.

  • Duty of supervision over minors or incapacitated persons, with consequent imputation of fault.

  • Medical errors or omissions in clinical acts, with claims for professional negligence.

  • Environmental damage, including pollution and ecological degradation.

  • Strict liability of manufacturers or producers for defective products.

  • Specific violations of consumer rights, with cumulative compensation.

  • Compensation for patrimonial and non-patrimonial damages, including actual loss, loss of profits and moral damages.

  • Strict or fault-based liability for injuries caused by animals

  • Road traffic accidents, including assessment of fault, quantification of damages and activation of insurance companies.

  • Consultancy on insurance policies, coverage analysis, claims management and exercise of subrogation rights.

Family and Succession Law

Mediation and resolution of family cases, divorces, inheritance and legacy issues, including:

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  • Mutual-consent or litigious divorce: division of marital property and prenuptial agreements.

  • Regulation of parental responsibilities: maintenance, visitation rights and guardianship of minors.

  • Succession planning: wills, lifetime gifts and early partition of estates.

  • Qualification of heirs, judicial and extrajudicial inventories, challenge of legacies and petition of inheritance.

  • Family mediation and court-approved agreements in separation and divorce proceedings.

  • Declaration of presumptive death due to absence.

Insolvency

Proceedings related to the insolvency of individuals and companies, namely:

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  • Application for insolvency, discharge of remaining liabilities and payment plans.

  • Representation of creditors at creditors’ meetings and verification of claims.

  • Advisory to insolvency administrators and company recovery.

  • Monitoring of special revitalisation proceedings (PER) and debt restructuring.

Consumer Law

Defence of consumer rights in various situations, with intervention in:

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  • Complaints for hidden defects, faults in goods or services and statutory warranties.

  • Urban leasing disputes and conflict management; actions against unfair terms, unfair commercial practices and misleading advertising.

  • Compensation for damages arising from breach of contract or defective products.

  • Representation before consumer arbitration centres and injunction procedures.

Civil Litigation

Representation in civil court proceedings, including:

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  • Declaratory, condemnatory, enforcement and precautionary actions.

  • Procedures for attachment, embargo of new works and conservatory measures.

  • Ordinary and extraordinary appeals in civil matters.

  • Enforcement for payment of a sum certain, delivery of goods or performance of an act.

Civil and Land Registry

Issues of nationality, civil registry and land registry, with services including:

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  • Acquisition of nationality.

  • Registration of birth, marriage, divorce, death and declaration of presumptive death due to absence.

  • Annotations, rectifications and cancellations in civil, land and commercial registries.

  • Entry and stay of foreigners.

Credit Recovery

Management and collection of debts, including:

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  • Collection of debts arising from bills of exchange, cheques or other documents.

  • Extrajudicial and judicial collection of credits based on enforceable titles.

  • Injunction procedures, enforcement actions and attachment of assets.

  • Negotiation of payment plans and agreements of novation or dation in payment.

Other Related Areas

  • Establishment of incapacity by interdiction or limited incapacity.

  • Guardianship, curatorship and administration of assets of minors or interdicted persons.

  • Civil protection of personality rights: honour, image, privacy and personal data.

  • Actions for infringement of copyright and industrial property rights.

  • Institutional mediation and arbitration in civil disputes.

Complementary Support

  • Legalization of documents, notarizations and acknowledgements.

  • Advisory on parental responsibility and proceedings for inhibition of parental powers.

  • Consultancy on insurance matters, claims and strict liability.

  • Assistance with vehicle registration and commercial annotations.

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