No, you can’t.
You must use one of the above-mentioned documents.

Having two witnesses.

Yes, you can.
People executing notarial acts do not read them, they just hear when it is read and then sign it.
If you do not know how to sign, you just use your fingerprint or, in case it is an authentication or a certification, you take someone who will sign on your behalf.

Yes, people who cannot hear the reading of the acts must read them aloud before signing.
If they cannot read, they should choose someone who, before the present, reads a second time and explains the contents of the act.
The Federação Portuguesa das Associações de Surdos provides free interpreters. Find more in http://www.fpasurdos.pt/fpas/contatos/

Yes, mutes who can read and write, must declare by writing before the signatures that they have read the act and that it expresses their will.
If they cannot write, they must show by gestures to the notary and to the other present their will.
However, whenever this is not possible, the person will need an interpreter.
The Federação Portuguesa das Associações de Surdos provides free interpreters. Find more inhttp://www.fpasurdos.pt/fpas/contatos/

First, you must request a court for his/her interdiction or disabling and to nominate a person to represent him / her.

Yes.
If you wish to make a certification or an authentication, you must be with someone who will sign on your behalf.
If you want to take a part in a notarial instrument, a deed or a testament, you use your fingerprint.

Parents, being their children’s representatives, cannot alienate or grant property they hold without a court authorization (unless it is an onerous alienation of things likely to be lost or destroyed.
This regime is applied to shares and other situations. If the act is urgent, it can be executed, but it will be nulled by the minor when he becomes major.
The act can be checked by the court after being executed.

No.
We just certify copies made from original documents.

You can ask for documents which are kept in the notary’s office or an authenticated copy of an original document.

No.

Except for closed documents deposited, a filed document cannot be taken, and only copies can be made.
This document is filed, but easily researched and accessed.
For example, a person gives a power to someone else and files it in a notary’s office. Later, if that person wants to revoke the power, that endorsement will not be done unless the original is filed.

The document may be filled in the documental collection of an extinct notary’s office; if that is the case, you must access http://www.notarios.pt/OrdemNotarios/PT/PrecisoNotario/Antigos+Arquivos/to find that file.
The document may also have been included on a national file; in case it is in Torre do Tombo you can ask and request for its act by accessinghttp://digitarq.arquivos.pt/oservices

Filed documents can be reproduced and certified as originals (certificates).
Certificates can be requested to the offices where the file has been deposited (see the previous paragraph) or you can ask us to do that.
You can pick it up in person or receive it by mail.

If you are for example in Lisbon, your document is in a notary’s office in Faro and you need it today in Lisbon, you can ask the notary’s office in Faro to send it by fax to a notary’s office nearby where you are.
In case it is not filed, you can ask it to be filed before it is sent to you.

No.
There are some exceptions and incapacities.
If one person is not mentally fit, does not understand the Portuguese language, does not know or cannot sign, the not emancipated minors, the death, dumbs and blinds, those working in the notary’s office, the spouse, the great-great-parents, the great parents, the parents, the children, the grand-children, the grand-grand-children, the brothers, the sisters, the brothers and sisters in law of the notary issuing the act, of the applicants, their representatives or represented, both husband and wife and anyone who, due to the act has acquired a patrimonial advantage, cannot be a sponsor, an interpreter, an expert, a translator, a reader nor a witness.

No.

Yes.

Sim.
The notary can even visit the place with an expert to certify those problems even if you make the necessary works.
It is the same to participate floods to the insurance company.

Just the person who gives the power, although we need the identification data of the person receiving the power to be insert in the document.

You do not need to give the power to anybody. You just come to the notary’s office and we will write the conjugal consent to identify the act you are authorizing.

No. We will do that for you.

You must come to the notary’s office with a copy of that power, if possible, and your identification valid. Later, you must send a copy of the revoked power to the person using a registered letter and a notice of receipt.

You must come to the notary’s office with your identification valid. If the document is written in English, French or Spanish, you do not need to translate it, otherwise, contact us previously.

No. We will do that for you. You just come to the notary’s office with your identification valid and a copy of your child identification document as well the person’s he is travelling with.

If there is a date in the document, that must be respected.
If there is no date, the delay is six months from the date it has been certified.

No. according to the law, there is a part that must be kept for your child, unless he has been convicted by a serious crime against you. In that case, contact us.

The Portuguese one. Unless you make a testament declaring you prefer the French law to be applied.

You can come to the notary’s office to make a vital testament. We will give you a form with some questions you must answer before and that will help you making decisions.
You can also choose a health care attorney who will decide on your behalf and whom you can give orientation to for the future.

You can ask us to do that, you can identify yourself with your citizen card by accessing http://www.irn.mj.pt/IRN/sections/irn/a_registral/registos-centrais/existencia-de-testamento and ask for that information or you can go in person to the Conservatória dos Registos Centrais.

It depends.
If you are married under the matrimonial regime of separation of property, no, he must not, unless it is the house where you both presently live.
If you are married under the matrimonial regime of community after-acquired property, your husband must authorize the act or go to the notary’s office to make a previous conjugal consent before the deed.
If you are married under the matrimonial regime of community property, your husband must take part in the act or go to the notary’s office to make a previous power of attorney before the deed.

It depends.
If you are married under the matrimonial regime of separation of property, you buy for yourself; your husband must be present only if you want to buy for both of you.
If you are married under the matrimonial regime of community property, you buy for both of you, your husband does not have to be present.
If you are married under the matrimonial regime of community after-acquired property, you can buy alone for both, but if you want the property to be exclusively yours, your husband must confirm the money you used is only yours and not the couple’s.
If you are going to make a loan and execute a mortgage next to the bank, your husband must always be present, unless you buy a property for secondary residence and you are married under the matrimonial regime of separation of property.

It depends.
If you are married under the matrimonial regime of separation of property, no, he must not, unless it is the house where you both presently live.
If you are married under the matrimonial regime of community after-acquired property, your husband must authorize the act or go to the notary’s office to make a previous conjugal consent before the deed.
If you are married under the matrimonial regime of community property, your husband must take part in the act or go to the notary’s office to make a previous power of attorney before the deed.

As there will be an increase in the number of co-owners (a couple is considered one owner, but the buyers are two), you need a document issued by the Câmara Municipal of the council where the property is located to authorize the increase of the number of co-owners.

If you buy a rustic building and there is no approved project for construction, it does not have a definite edification capacity.
An allotment which results from a permit issuing has a previous fixed edification capacity, and you will know exactly what you can build.

Yes, you can, but you must have the others’ consent and if they are married under the matrimonial regime of community after-acquired property or under the matrimonial regime of community property, you must also have their spouses’ consent.
In case you don’t, the sale will be nulled by the others who did not give their consent.

No, you don’t.

No, you don’t.
But, if there is a debt between you two, you can formalize a dation in payment.
Contact us.

Yes, you can, if you are not married under the matrimonial imperative regime of separation of property.
If you are married under the matrimonial regime of community property, community after-acquired property or separation of property because you have done a prenuptial agreement, you can make the donation, but it is revocable and expires if your spouse dies before you do, unless you confirm it again within three months after his / her dead.
The donation also expires if you get divorced or judicially separated.

Usually, the payment cannot be done in cash (Law no. 92/2017, 22nd August).
The deed must identify the number of the check issued, the withdrawn entity or, in case of a bank transfer, the account number of the payer, the beneficiary’s and the name of the bank.
If the payment has been done previously, the date must be written.
You must talk to the seller to find out if he wants a certified or a bank check.
If there is a mortgage, you need a certified or a bank check issued on the behalf of the bank and whose amount will be the debt on the deed’s day. The seller can also explain you these details.

You do not need to worry. You give us all the necessary elements and we will publish it. You can freely make your contract after 10 days.

Having no energetic certificate does not prevent the deed to be done.
However, in case of sale, dation in payment and renting, you must ask for the energetic certificate and deliver it to the acquiring person under the penalty of paying a fine.
There are some exceptions for the energetic certification (see articles 3rd and 4th DL no. 118/2013, 20th August).

If you are going to sell the property, you are a professional and the utilization permit is dated later than 29/03/2004, you must exhibit it and give it to the buyer.
If you are going to sell the property, you are a private and the utilization permit is dated later than 29/03/2004, you have to exhibit it and give it to the buyer only if it has been given to you when you had bought the house (check your deed).

No, but you must prove that by the property registration document or an act issued by the Câmara.

It depends on the date the Regulamento Geral das Edificações Urbanas (REGEU) has been applied for that area. Contact the local authority.

Yes, it is. Contact us.

Yes, you can, if the buyer accepts, but the bank can demand for the immediate payment of the debt.

Definitely.
Only then will it be protected. If you want stronger guaranties, you can make a promise agreement with real efficacity and have it registered.
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No, it is not, if the buyer proves his / her household income corresponds to a rate tax lower than 55%.
In case the household has two or more dependents, he must prove proves his / her household income corresponds to a rate tax lower than 60%.
The answer will be same for the judicial separation.

No, it is not. See the previous answer.

No, it hall not. However, for your spouse to be exempted for that assumption of the debt, the bank must give its consent, when the deed is done or after.

The same answer for the previous question.

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No, you cannot.

Yes, you do if you are married under the matrimonial regime of community property or community of after-acquired property.

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If the object of the society is the property purchase and sell, the managers who oblige the society. If the object is another one, the partners (unless the social agreement has given power to the managers to do that).

The managers who oblige the society.

You must send a registered letter with notice of receipt for the society’s headquarters and contact the notary’s office to ask for the manager’s duties cession registration.

All actual partners must sign the contract, or a second manager must be nominated.

Partner is the spouse who has made the society, although the coupe holds the quota.

That may not be the best fiscal solution.
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Contact the notary’s office because we have several answers and you can find the best for you. Contact us.