Recognition or dissolution of a stable union in Brazil, with effect on property, inheritance and pension rights. We prepare, file and follow the whole procedure, without you leaving the United States.
If you recognize yourself in any of these scenarios, we run the whole procedure in Brazil, with no need to travel.
Living together does not create automatic rights in Brazil. Without a recorded deed or a court ruling, the surviving partner may be left out of the inheritance, excluded from the survivor's pension and unable to prove any share in property bought together.
Service in your own time zone in the United States (in Portuguese, English or Spanish) and execution in person at registries and courts in any Brazilian state.
Start date, assets involved and purpose: we define whether the case is recognition or dissolution.
We draft the deed with the regime you want, not the one the law imposes by default.
Consulate, power of attorney or video call with the registry: you pick whichever works there.
We take the deed to registration and deliver the documents digitally.
Each route carries different requirements and costs. Reviewing your documents we determine which applies — and the estimated timeline goes in writing in the proposal, before any payment.
The couple is together and wants the union documented, with a start date and regime.
The relationship ended by agreement: we dissolve it and split the assets.
No agreement, or the union must be proven after a death — then it is judicial.
A simplified list of the documents usually required to start the procedure.
The exact list for your case comes with the initial review — we ask only for what is needed, with no pointless paperwork.
Service in your own time zone in the United States — and execution in person at registries and courts in any Brazilian state.
14 years in Private International Law and more than 2,000 Brazilian and foreign clients served. Law degree from PUC Minas, MBA from FGV, international training in Belgium (Louvain) and Australia (Newcastle). Former professor at PUC Minas.
19 years of practice and more than 2,500 cases in Brazil, in civil, contract and real estate law. Former court-appointed defender for the Bar of Santa Catarina, a Brazilian and American citizen, he has lived in Florida since 2016 and serves clients in three languages.
Law graduate with advanced training in International Family Law. She is the one who receives and organizes your case in the United States: document review, case follow-up, liaison with the team in Brazil and service in your own time zone.
Brazilian law sets no minimum period. What characterizes a stable union is a public, continuous and lasting relationship with the intent to build a family — proven by documents, joint accounts, children or witnesses. In the case review we say what counts as proof in your situation.
Not automatically. A relationship acknowledged abroad still needs its own instrument in Brazil to produce effects on property, inheritance and pension there.
No. The procedure is conducted by our team in Brazil, and a public power of attorney drawn up from abroad covers the acts that require your signature.
Yes. The deed may set the regime that applies to the union. With no instrument, the default statutory regime applies, which is not always what the couple wants.
The dissolution can be consensual, before a registry, when there is agreement. Without agreement, the route is judicial — and the division follows the regime in force during the union.
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