Solicitor in London
Sito Italiano
APPLICATIONS
WHAT I CAN DO FOR YOU
Power of Attorney for Italy
A power of Attorney (in italian Procura), grants the power to legally represent you acting on your behalf in one or more affair.
It's a very sensitive document because you are untrusting your rights and affairs to a lawyer. Therefore is advisable you seek help of a professional when drawing up the document in Italian. The document needs to be signed in front of a public Notary and legalized with apostille
for the use in Italy.
You can appoint an Italian lawyer or any other person you trust the power to represent you in matters such as to buy or sell Italian properties in order to carry out Italian inheritance claims, to incorporate Italian companies or to start a dispute in Italy.
Through the Procura
you can handle any matter in Italy, without being present in Italy.
Santa advices and assists the Client to validate the Power of Attorney for use in Italy. She also handles the matter in a way to be in contact with the Italian Notary or Organism who will receive the Procura to check if its content is suitable for the use it is drafted.
Litigations
There are four levels of jurisdiction in Italy :
• Giudice di Pace
(Judge of Peace);
• Tribunali Civile e Penale
(Civil and Penal Tribunals);
• Corte D’Appello
(Court of Appeals);
• Corte di Cassazione
(Supreme Judicial Court);
Any judgement held of first grade ,may be appealed in front of the next higher Court ,until Supreme Court.
The Paintiff and the sued party must be mainly represented in front of the Courts by an Attorney acting with a proxy.
Assisting clients involved in disputes in Italy and dealing with counterpart lawyers involved in the cases, is
one of the key area handled by Santa Vitolo.
Conveyancing Italy / UK
Santa assisting and representing Italian e non Italians clients in Italian Property legal matters is one of the key areas handled by her.
She assists clients throughout Italy in all aspects of conveyance, purchase and sale throughout the whole process.
She mediates with the notary, the vendor, owner and estate agent to collect all needed information pertaining to vendor and development.
Santa’s work consisting in reviewing property details , owner’s title, seller’s power to sell, estimating transaction costs and, finally, drafting an accurate transaction report for buyer before to completion with all detailed transaction terms, effect and recommended action up the completion.
Will & Inheritance Successions for Italy
The succession starts at the time of death, it transfers economic and real estate rights and duties of a person to his/her heirs.
Succession Law in Italy is based on the principle of unity of inheritance and this principle differs substantially from common law. Italian Law rules in different way property and non-property assets: the law of the last domicile/citizenship of the deceased party is applicable to non-property assets, while the law of the country where the property is located is applied to property assets.
Therefore, if the hereditary assets include properties located in different countries, the succession rights to each single property will be regulated by the law of the country in which each property is located.
It's important considering that whether the deceased is intestate or has, through an Italian Will, determined testamentary succession, submission of a Dichiarazione di Successione(Statement of Succession) is required within one year of death.
The death of a family member implies the need to undertake a series of actions, such as searching for a Will, making an inventory of the deceased’s assets, ascertaining the presence of a safety deposit box and bank accounts and establishing contact with the relevant competent authorities to complete the whole succession procedure.
