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Legal advice in the authorization of documents such as:

• public deeds
• notarial acts
• records in general

with their respective registrations and effects in Guatemala.

Document with which a person empowers another person to carry out one or several acts on his behalf. Or in general, it entrusts the management or administration of any of its affairs, representing it before public or private entities in Guatemala.
A mandate may be:

• Special or general: according to the powers delegated.
• Free or onerous: according to the remuneration.
• With representation: the agent acts on behalf of the principal. The responsibility for the acts executed corresponds to both of them.
• Without representation: The agent acts in his own name
• Judicial: for representation in court
• Extra-judicial: For representation in any matter.
• Express acceptance: the agent accepts in the document the powers conferred.
• Tacit acceptance: the appointed agent, without accepting in the document, executes the actions entrusted to him/her in the mandate.

A document, less formal than a mandate, by which a person authorizes another person to perform certain acts on his behalf. The signature of the person or persons appearing must be authenticated by a notary public.

The notary attests that a signature or a document is authentic because:

• The signature has been placed in his presence by the person requiring his services;
• The documents presented to him are authentic, because they were reproduced from the respective originals, and he must confirm this.

Advice and assistance in Switzerland and in Guatemala in the processing of the different matters that are handled extrajudicially and their implications in any type of registry of the country. Such as

• National Registry of Persons (RENAP),
• Ministry of the Interior,
• General Property Registry,
• Commercial Registry
• Guatemalan Institute of Migration or Directorate General of Migration

and other public, private or administrative institutions.

Authorization of contracts of any nature that must have legal effects in Guatemala. By means of the written contract, the notary gives form to the will of two or more persons with legal capacity, regulating the conditions, relations and obligations of both parties.

Prior authorization of compliance with the requirements established by law. The legal union through the legal bond of marriage between Guatemalans or Guatemalans with foreigners, to be registered in Guatemala.

To confer by means of the granting of a Mandate, the faculties that according to the law are necessary to process in the voluntary or litigious way a divorce in Guatemala.

Authorize and register before the National Registry of Persons (RENAP) and before any other entity in Guatemala, the identification of a person. The identification of a person is understood as the legal procedure followed to register the names with which a person is constantly and publicly identified in social and family relations and which are different from those with which he/she was registered at birth.

Authorizing notarial acts. The notarial act is the original public instrument in which the notary, at the request of the interested party, relates, in order to record under his faith, one or several facts that he witnesses or that are known to him. They are authorized with his signature and seal.

Formalization of a declaration made under oath by a person. With this public document, the notary who authorizes the act warns the declarant that he/she is swearing before the law and warns him/her of the penalties that the criminal law regulates for the crime of perjury.

Procedures before the National Registry of Persons (RENAP)

• Request for certification of birth certificate
• Obtaining the Single Identification Number (CUI)
• Request for marriage certificate
• Request for death certificate
• Legal process to obtain the rectification of a birth certificate
• Legal process to obtain the reinstatement of a marriage or death certificate
• Amendment of birth certificate, when it is a minor error as provided by law.
• Extemporaneous registration of birth certificate
• Legal process to obtain a name change
• Registration of Person Identification
• Marriage registration
• Request for divorce registrations

Any other matter concerning that Registry

Advice and diligence in Guatemala of all matters related to real estate registered before the Property Registries, among others:

• Registry investigation. Study carried out before the General Property Registries or before the General Directorate of Cadastre and Appraisal of Real Estate (DICABI), to establish the status and other conditions and information related to the registered real estate.
• Requests for registration and obtaining certifications of registered real estate.
• Immobilization of real estate to guarantee the protection of property and legal certainty in the registration of real estate.
• Cancellation of the annotation of immobilization of immovable properties
• Request for registration of identification of a person in the registration of real estate (frequent cases)
• Requests for cancellation of annotations, encumbrances or limitations weighing on the registered real estate property.

Any other type of request that has to do with the legitimization of properties and inscriptions of real estate.

Any type of matters or requests before the Superintendence of Tax Administration (SAT) and before any other public or private institution in Guatemala.
Any type of professional advice related to the legal and notary profession.