This is the blog of ESCOBEDO - SPANISH LAWYERS. A LAW FIRM of Independent English Speaking SPANISH LAWYERS based in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.

We provide comprehensive Spanish legal & litigation services to all our English speaking clients. Leading this service is Jose Escobedo a licensed Spanish lawyer with 19 years practice in the Canary Islands, Spain. He provides these services in association Victor Maldonado, Lawyer.

In our our blog you will find free legal information about many subjects that might affect your life, investments in Spain i.e. (conveyance & business laws, taxes, NIE, residencia, permits, spanish wills, inheritance laws, debt recovery, claims, law enforcement and much more).

New Law 14/2007 - 27th December - From 1st January 2008 parents may gift any property in the Canary Islands to their children and benefit from a 99,9% tax exemption. The said exemption is applicable to all donations (gifts) of real estate property situated in Canary Islands.

Since the publication of Law 7/1995 of 6th April, this matter has aroused a great deal of controversy among apartment owners in tourist areas throughout the Canary Isles.

Questions and answers for the most common queries.

Here you may find usefull advice, hints, tips and lots of info. regarding wills

Essential advice on buying property in Spain. The article that you cannot miss.

Foreign property owners often do not realize that they haven´t got all the right documents for their property until they come to sell ... so why wait until the last minute to check through your papers.

Some of the situations described below may seem pretty obvious for you but you would be surprised of how many foreign investors fall into these common pitfalls

10 simple steps to avoid legal problems in Spain.

New legislation has been passed in the Canary Isles (Decree 13/2006 dated 8th February - B.O.C. 43, 2.3.2006) regarding living wills (testamento vital).