Our services in family law are mainly oriented to international aspects of divorce, custody, alimony and child support involving foreign citizens or foreign jurisdictions that include a Chilean citizens, marriage, children, or Chilean jurisdictional elements. We also provide expert counsel to foreigners in Chile with regards to their rights in family matters and mixed Chilean marriages.

We provide legal counsel to clients on a wide variety of family law issues, including divorce, legal separation, and Hague convention child custody issues. Our services range from short-term and emergency matters such as custodial and child support agreements under Chilean Law, through the process of recognition of a foreign divorce decrees obtained in other jurisdictions so as to be enforceable in Chile. We are also frequently called on to assist our clients' other legal council in foreign jurisdictions with understanding Chilean law, or providing expert witness support to foreign courts and authorities when international divorce and child custody issues span multiple jurisdictions.

We offer personalized support through periods that can be highly emotional and traumatic for all concerned, and clearly explain what Chilean Law recognizes as rights in matters of family relations.

Chilean divorce trials Legal separations Powers of attorney for trial representation Mediation in family matters Child support Alimony and maintenance Child custody agreements

Supreme Court Exequátur proceedings Pre-nuptial agreements and marriage property regimes Legal counsel in international adoption Expert Legal reports in Chilean family law matters Hague Child Custody Legal Translations Enforcement of rulings from foreign Courts in Chile

Divorce in Chile

Chile Family Law

If you were married anywhere in the World, got divorced anywhere in the World, and now live in Chile there are many good reasons to have that divorce legally recognized in Chile. For example, your former “spouse” may still need to sign for you to sell real estate in Chile, if you bought property in Chile while you were married. Another situation might be your former spouse may still have rights over an inheritance in Chile. This may even extend to family members of your former spouse under Chile's forced inheritance laws. Chilean Attorney Zandra Valenzuela gives a brief overview of the options for having a foreign divorce recognized in Chile and the recent changes to the laws in 2009 that make it easier for the Chilean Supreme Court to accept previously rejected foreign divorces.

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