Puerto Rico Law Blog

Otra vez con un nuevo teléfono. Aprovecho esta oportunidad para informarle a todos nuestros clientes y lectores del estado de New York, que ahora tenemos un nuevo número de teléfono en el área de Nueva York:

646.867.3959

Con éste nuevo número, le facilitamos la comunicación a nuestros clientes de esa área que tienen asuntos legales de familia y herencias en Puerto Rico.

Prácticamente nos dedicamos completamente a clientes estadounidenses o residentes fuera de Puerto Rico, y nos enorgullece servirles a todos nuestros hermanos y hermanas que viven en el extranjero.

Aprovecho esta oportunidad para aclarar que nuestras oficinas están en Puerto Rico, y sólo practicamos acá. La información de contacto que proveemos es para facilitar la comunicación con nuestros clientes y brindarle consultoría legal a residentes estadounidenses y extranjeros.

No estamos licenciados para practicar ni proveer consultoría fuera de Puerto Rico.

Pronto tendremos numeros locales en Connecticut, Philadelphia, Chicago y Texas, para facilitarle a nuestros futuros clientes de esas áreas el comunicarse con nosotros en Puerto Rico.

También quisiera agradecerle a nuestro clientes de Nueva York por su contínuo patrocino. Es un verdadero placer servirles y les extendemos nuestro más cálido abrazo a todos.

Well, I decided to divide up my blogging into two: BoricuaLaw for all that is Puerto Rico Law, and MortisCausa just for inheritance law.

Since Estates, Wills and Inheritance Law are my main areas of practice, so much so that I began working with them even before I even considered going to law school, I have come up with a blawg on it’s own. Besides, dont tell anyone, but I have the only blawg about inheritance laws in Puerto Rico!!! Shhhhhhhhhhh!!

“Mortis Causa”, although it sounds like an evil cult, is latin for “after death”, and is how property is transmitted after one passes away. Successions, or Estates in Puerto Rico are transmitted mortis causa.

Perhaps the practice, although fascinating, is a little uncomfortable for some. Regardless of how you may feel about dealing with your own mortality, the truth is that it is always best to be prepared, and the more information we have, the better prepared we are.

So, go on over to www.MortisCausa.com and check it out. Feel free to leave a comment, or two, and add it to your favorite RSS or XML reader.

Of course, questions are always welcome!

Jeez, has it been THAT LONG?!?! It’s been almost 4 months since I last blogged, and I’ve been missing it since.

I was relocating my offices to Ponce, and the whole remodeling/moving/setting up took a little longer than expected. But I’m back to my “normal” routine, and I’ll be blogging much more in the time to come.

Expect a few comments on Puerto Rico’s Supreme Court’s step away from the no-fault divorce, the loosely translated “Irreparable Rupture”, which is as close as we had to “Irreconcilable Differences”. The only option for a fast track divorce is Mutual Consent, and two dissident opinions from the Court’s two women make this opinion from a rather conservative court a landmark in Family Law Jurisprudence.

Now that we’re into the Family Law topic, another hot item I’d love to cover is the jurisdictional problem confronted by ASUME, the PR Child Support Administration when enforcing child support determinations through the UIFSA, given the fact that Puerto Rico is a Mixed Jurisdiction Territory. I’ve come across several unresolved questions when dealing with Child Support across jurisdictions, especially when they come from a Territory, instead of a State. I’ll be adding a little to that topic later.

Last, but not least, I’ll be explaining how successions operate in Puerto Rico. This is probably the most sought after information in my practice, since approximately 75% of it is dedicated to wills, estates and successions. The most important operation in Puertorrican estate matters is the hereditary order, and the birth of the post-mortem (after death) community. The order begins simple, but it starts complicating itself exponentially. The “who-gets-what” question is possibly the hottest topic in my practice, so I’ll be dividing that topic into several posts, because it becomes a fascinating and complex operation of family ties and dates.

Stay tuned, and it’s good to be back.

English:

I’d like to announce that our new website is up and running, and it’s the Spanish version of our original site, www.frankfaslaw.com.

For those of you that don’t know us, we’re a small legal practice in Ponce, Puerto Rico that deal with both Civil and Criminal matters, serving plaintiffs and defendants in areas such as Contracts, Small Business Law, Estates and Wills and Family Law.

In response to our geographic area, which is mainly Spanish-speaking, we’ve set up a new website, www.BoricuaLaw.com, to be able to reach our mainstream market here. Although the main purpose of our web identity is to advertise outside of Puerto Rico to individuals or businesses that may need legal services in our jurisdiction, the undeniable truth is that our society is becoming more Internet dependent. In response to this, and to many requests that we publish a website in Spanish, we decided to create our Spanish language website.

Please visit us at www.BoricuaLaw.com.

Spanish:

Nos complace en anunciar que nuestra nueva página de Internet ya está disponible, y es la versión en español de nuestra página original, www.frankfaslaw.com.

Para aquellos que no nos conozcan, somos un bufete pequeño situado en Ponce, Puerto Rico, que trabaja con casos de índole Civil y Criminal, sirviendo a demandantes y demandados en las áreas de Obligaciones y Contratos, Pequeños Negocios, Herencias y Testamentos y Derecho de Familia.

Respondiendo a nuestra situación geográfica, la cual es mayormente hispanoparlante, hemos preparado una nueva página en la Internet, www.BoricuaLaw.com, para poder llegar hasta nuestro mercado inicial aquí en Puerto Rico. Aún cuando el propósito inicial de publicar una página de Internet era el alcanzar un mercado fuera de Puerto Rico, a individuos y empresas que necesitaran servicios legales en nuestra jurisdiccion, la verdad incuestionable es que nuestra sociedad puertorriqueña utiliza la Internet más cada día. Como respuesta a esto, y a múltiples solicitudes de un portal en español, hemos decidido crear una página en español.

Por favor, visítenos en www.BoricuaLaw.com.