Expertise and Know-How Practice Areas

Practice Areas

Family Law and Succession Law

MAGNA Sociedade de Advogados, S.P., R.L. advises clients in the areas of Family Law and Succession Law, including:

  • Consensual and contentious divorce proceedings;
  • Annulment of Catholic marriages;
  • Legal separation of spouses and separation of assets;
  • Division of assets between divorced spouses or legally separated spouses;
  • Changes to matrimonial regimes and property arrangements;
  • Preventive estate planning in relation to debts incurred by either spouse;
  • Determination of child maintenance and applications for adjustment due to reduced financial capacity;
  • Child custody and visitation arrangements;
  • Determination of spousal maintenance;
  • Assistance throughout child adoption proceedings;
  • De facto unions;
  • Guardianship, curatorship, and incapacity proceedings;
  • Parentage and paternity investigations;
  • Succession planning, including the drafting of wills and testamentary arrangements;
  • Disinheritance;
  • Judicial and consensual estate partitions;
  • Judicial proceedings for the allocation of the right to reside in the family home and rights over household contents;
  • Accounting proceedings;
  • Estate inventories;
  • Annulment of asset partitions;
  • Annulment and revocation of wills;
  • Judicial proceedings for recognition of succession rights and heir status;
  • Donations and gifts.
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