All these links have useful information which meets our area.
Eur-Lex (Jornal Oficial da União Europeia)
Bases Jurídico Documentais do Ministério da Justiça
Procuradoria-Geral Distrital de Lisboa
Gabinete de Documentação e Direito Comparado
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa
Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Coimbra
Direção-Geral do Património Cultural
ADENE - Agência para a Energia
IMPIC - Instituto dos Mercados Públicos do Imobiliário e da Construção
APEMIP – Associação dos Profissionais e Empresas de Mediação Imobiliária de Portugal
DGPJ - Estatísticas Oficiais da Justiça
Presidência do Conselho de Ministros
Portal das Comunidades Portuguesas
Serviço de Estrangeiros e Fronteiras
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These questions are answered under the Portuguese Law.
Who is considered of priority service?
I have a visual handicap. Can I execute a notarial act without an interpreter?
I have a hearing handicap. Can I execute a notarial act without an interpreter?
I have a speech handicap. Can I execute a notarial act without an interpreter?
I have a very close relative who suffers of Alzheimer and cannot express verbally. I need him / her giving me a power to take care of his / her businesses. What shall I do?
I cannot sign. Can I execute a notarial act?
I want to execute a notarial act on the behalf of my minor son. What shall I do?
I want to donate my grandchild who is minor a house. Who must be present?
Must a notary keep confidentiality like a lawyer?
Can I certify a simple copy?
What documents can be reproduced?
Acts and authenticated copies have an expiration date?
What is the advantage of filing a document in the notary’s office?
How do I know where is the document I am looking for?
How can I access a document filed in a notary’s office?
How can I have immediate access to a document?
Which documents do I need to execute a notarial act?
I do not understand Portuguese. Shall I find an interpreter?
Any person can be considered a sponsor, an interpreter, an expert, a translator, a reader or a witness?
The document I want to translate must be an original document?
Can you find me a translator?
I need to use a power of attorney issued in Spain to execute a deed. Do I have to translate it? Do I have to certify it?
I have been insulted by SMS. Can I certify that fact?
I have bought a house having many construction problems. Can the notary help me?
I need to give a person the power to execute a house sale deed on my behalf. Who must present to make the power?
I want to authorize my husband to sell a property, but I cannot be present for the deed. Who shall I give the power to?
I need to make a power of attorney. Shall I take it written to the notary’s office?
I gave a power to someone many years ago and I want now to revoke that power. What shall I do?
I need to certify a signature. What shall I do?
My minor child is going to travel alone, and he / she is under my responsibility. What shall I do? Shall I take the authorization to the notary’s office already written?
My minor child is going to travel alone, and I need to authorize him/ her. At home, I already have an authorization. Can I use it?
My minor child travels a lot. Alone. Do I have to authorize him/ her each time?
I am married under the separation of assets regime. My husband is heir, or shall I make a testament for him?
I have a child. Can I leave all my assets to a friend?
At present, I live in Portugal, but I am French. Which law will be applied to my succession when I die?
I am sick, and I want to make a document to establish the health cares I want and the ones I do not in case I cannot speak. What shall I do?
I made a testament and I want to revoke it, but I do not remember where it is. What shall I do?
I want to have access to a testament of a death person. What shall I do?
I made a purchase agreement to buy a house, but the other part did not schedule the deed when due. What shall I do?
I want to sell a house I have inherited. Must my husband be present?
I want to buy a house. Must my husband be present?
I must share my parents’ assets with my siblings. Must my husband be present?
Me and my brother, we are going to buy a rustic building to a couple. Is there any formality?
Is there a difference between buying a rustic building and an allotment?
I want to sell a house to my child. Can I?
To donate a property to one of my children, do I need an authorization from the others?
Can I sell my spouse a property?
Can I donate my spouse a property?
I am going to buy a property. How shall I pay for the price?
I am going to buy a property. How can I be sure no public entity will prosecute the preference right?
I am going to sell a property. Can I make the deed without having an energetic certificate?
I am going to sell a property. Must I have its technical report?
I want to sell a property which was built before 1951. Do I need a license?
I want to sell a property which was built before 1964. Do I need a license?
I want to transmit a property, but it is not legalized. Is it possible?
Can I sell or share a mortgage property?
I have made a purchase promise agreement. Shall I register it?
I want to make a share by divorce, but a friend told me my loan interests will raise. Is that true?
I have lived non-matrimonially united, but we have separated, and now we want to share a common thing. We were informed that loan interests will raise. Is that true?
I have divorced, and I want to make a share to keep the house and take on the loan. Shall the bank interfere?
I have lived non-matrimonially united, but we have separated, and now we want to share a common thing, and I want to make a share to keep the house and take on the loan. Shall the bank interfere?
I own a property for many years, but I have never made a deed. How can I legalize the situation?
I have an allotment with two houses built during the sixties. My parents died, and I want to keep one of the houses and my brother wants to keep the other. How can we share?
I need a document to certify someone’s heirs. What shall I do?
I am a head of a household, and I want to make a waiver of succession. What shall I do?
I have made a waiver of succession. Can I turn back on my decision?
I want to make a waiver of succession. Do I need my husband’s consent?
My father made a testament, and left a property to a cousin of mine, but he has not identified it correctly. How can we solve the problem?
My mother died, and I have shared her assets with my siblings, and I have registered them. The, we found out she had already sold one of the properties. How can we solve the problem?
As a manager, I need to certify a signature. What shall I do?
I am a partner in a society which holds a property and is going to sell it. Who must sign?
I am a partner in a society which holds a car and is going to sell it. Who must sign?
I am the manager, but I want to renounce. What shall I do?
I am the managing partner in a society having another partner who has resigned. The society is obliged by our two signatures. I have an urgent agreement to make. What shall I do?
I am married. My matrimonial regime if the community of after-acquired goods, and already married, I have made a society with my brother. Who is the partner of the society, me, my husband or both?
I was partner in a society already dissolved, and I have found now that there are still some goods in its name. what shall I do?
When I was still single, I bought a house with my mate. Then, we got married and we have bought another house. Now, we got divorced. Must we make two deeds?
My husband is dead, and I want to put all my assets in my children’s name ang getting nothing in exchange. I must make a share, right?
I have a child, but I divorced his father and the house where we live has not yet been shared with my ex-husband. I want to keep its usufruct and the rest turns to my child. What shall I do?
Can I contact the notary’s office to find out what taxes I must pay?