Family & Inheritance
Arthur & Castillo cares for the best interests, the confidentiality and tranquility of our clients through personalized attention and discretion.
We have assisted multiple clients with their delicate family legal matters including advisory on succession, probate and inheritance matters, drafting and examining wills, legal processes for transferring assets and real estate property titles, marriage, civil union and prenuptial agreements, mutual consent divorce, separation agreements and related legal advisory, financial settlements, protecting a disabled relative or child, healthcare power of attorney, paternity claims, and family and business trusts.
Our skilled team of advisors can assist you to ensure you have firm plans in place for you and your family’s succession, estate and protection.
Probate, Wills & Inheritance
Arthur & Castillo represents clients in all inheritance matters including legal processes related to the preparation of successions, decedent estates & trusts and sustainable estate planning for the organization and disposition of family assets and businesses in the Dominican Republic.
We prepare decedent estate and intestate succession filings before Dominican Tax, Real Estate and Banking Institutions in relation to legal inheritance and bequests of property. Our team also handles disputes relating to inheritance, contested wills, probate and trusts.
Our advisors assist with determination of heirs, partition agreements, real estate investigations, transfer of properties, inheritance legal opinions, obtaining personal legal documents such as birth, marriage and death certificates, official documents, legalizations, among others.
Inheritance Litigation
Arthur & Castillo can represent you in inheritance, estate, wills & trusts matters, where simple issues can become complicated and difficult to resolve.
We work with heirs, beneficiaries, trustees, as well as private foundations, surety and financial institutions to consider their specific situation and best interests and help them administer estates, determine power of attorney and beneficiary status and rights, issues around beneficiary rights, rectification and interpretation, contested rendered accounts.
Our advisors are skilled in managing estate, wills and trust disputes, including complex, high value, estate private company disputes and international estate, wills and trusts litigation and in moving estate, wills and trust litigation matters through the courts efficiently and can act as mediators and in judicial dispute resolutions, including oppression claims and receiver appointment suits in private company disputes.
Divorce Law
Arthur & Castillo advises on Divorce Law and provides legal representation and assistance when considering or anticipating a divorce, separation agreements, mutual consent or quick divorce, default divorce, fault and contested divorce.
We advise on marital regimes and marriage laws and marital regimes, drafting and registering prenuptial agreements, financial settlements, obtaining personal legal documents such as birth, marriage, divorce and death certificates, official documents, legalizations, among others.
Certificates
Arthur & Castillo provides additional services which may be independent or used to complement other services.
Some cases or personal matters often require Certificates such as Birth, Marriage, Divorce or Death Certificate; or Legalization or Apostille Services where certain documents originating from the Dominican Republic for validity abroad need the assistance of colleagues with special expertise. In such cases, we cooperate with competent partners from the respective areas.
For example, we perform Identity (ID) Verification services for verifying an individual persons’ identity.
Also, we may do Due Diligence services if you need information concerning: a companies’ register, the legitimacy of a company’s representative, a personal, legal and property register.
Finally, international cases might require Translation Services in languages other than Spanish and we provide document translation and legal interpretation to the English language from our accredited legal translators.
