No hiding place?
When community fee debts from Spain come knocking on your door in Britain...
Tax residency cases in Spain: The devil is in the detail
Three cautionary tales about tax avoidance
Big defeat for Marbella mayor
Lawyer Antonio Flores, of Lawbird, on a wrangle with Munoz
Only fit for ‘chicken thieves’
Spain is the conman’s paradise and it doesn’t look like that will change anytime soon, writes Antonio Flores
Spanish bureaucracy and tax loopholes
Antonio Flores, of Marbella-based Lawbird, explores Spain’s paperwork forests
Time for a divorce in Spain?
Antonio Flores, of Lawbird, tackles the tricky questions about ending a marriage
The winding road to Spanish residency
Antonio Flores examines the route to residency
Drunk behind the wheel in Spain
Legal expert Antonio Flores explains the obvious and not-so-obvious dangers of drink-driving
Questioning lawyer’s fees in Spain
Antonio Flores offers advice on how best to deal with the tricky situation of lawyers’ fees
Lawyers suing lawyers
Our regular Olive Press legal column by lawyer Antonio Flores
Balancing privacy with press freedom
Columnist Antonio Flores, of Lawbird in Marbella, on how to keep the balance
What if Jimmy Savile had found his prey in Torremolinos?
Legal columnist Antonio Flores explains how criminals can slip through the cracks in Spain
Behind bars in Spain
Antonio Flores of Marbella law firm, Lawbird, explores the controversies of a night in a cell
Spanish public notary wins bank mis-selling case
A public notary - supposedly an expert - wins case with plea of ignorance
Spanish police protocols
Olive Press columnist Antonio Flores, of Lawbird, explores Spanish police warrants
The invisible man
Columnist Antonio Flores, of Lawbird, on the intricacies of tax-residency in Spain
The trouble with aggressive advertising
Antonio Flores discusses which advertising clauses you can and can’t get away with
Mind your language!
Mouthing off in Spain is putting your foot in it big-style when the law intervenes, writes Antonio Flores
Determining the legality of a business in a residential complex
Columnist Antonio Flores explores the ins and outs of running a business from your home
The costly experience of using a phony driver’s licence writes Antonio Flores
IT is a well-documented fact that the Spanish Costas’ rich variety of foreign residents increases the complexity of legal issues and driving licenses -...
Financial experts blast Spain’s tax office as a ‘bully’ which turns taxpayers into ‘tax servants’
Many see in the Spanish Tax Office a tyrannical entity intent on extorting wealth from law-abiding citizens
New squatting rules in Spain drastically speed up the eviction process
THE Senate has approved specific measures against illegal occupiers of private property.
Under the new bill, squatters will be served with an eviction notice...
How the EU has ordered Spanish Courts to review compensation for wrongful imprisonment
THE Spanish Constitutional Tribunal has had to accept that people wrongly held in custody should be entitled to state compensation.
It comes after it was...
Chaos ensues with new laws on Spanish mortgage loans, writes Lawbird’s Antonio Flores
Now imagine a foreign buyer who speaks no Spanish and a notary who speaks only Spanish and you have a deal-breaker
Lawbird’s Antonio Flores reveals what you may not know about €500 ‘BinLaden’ notes and cash payments in Spain
Up to €100,000 if travelling within Spain and €10,000 if entering or departing the country, without notifying the authorities
Antonio Flores explains the legal ins and outs of using WhatsApp messages as evidence in court
Life is full of surprises as we know, and the law is no exception.