The Queue Is the Contract: Registering a Conventional Mortgage in the Dominican Republic Strip away the paperwork and a mortgage is a claim to a place in line. The conventional mortgage, granted by contract over registered property, entitles its holder, if the debt goes unpaid, to pursue the property and collect from its price with […]
From Shares to Parcels: Registering the Civil Partition of Dominican Property Co-ownership is easy to enter and famously hard to inhabit. Heirs receive a succession and become co-owners of everything in it; a divorced couple’s community dissolves into shares; partners acquire together and later want apart. In each case the law’s starting point is indivision: […]
Giving Property Away, Properly: The Registered Donation of Dominican Real Estate The most common estate plan in the Dominican Republic is not a document; it is a decision parents make at a kitchen table, to give the property to the children now, while everyone is alive to see it. The instinct is sound: donation moves […]
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