Author: Newton Mesquita
Author: Ascânio MMM
Author: Newton Mesquita
Author: Ascânio MMM
For over 14 years, we have focused on Family and Succession Law with superior technical quality of legal advice, professional ethics, and good lawyer-client rapport. Our practice is underpinned by our artisanal law style, our careful treatment of every item in every case, our confidentiality policy, and our pursuit of the best legal solutions.
We have extensive experience in both contentious and advising areas. These long years working on contentious cases and succession planning have raised our standards and developed our legal expertise in successfully dealing with family legal disputes and succession planning.
We are committed to transparency, partnership, and rapport with our clients. We build long-term lawyer-client relationships, value internal governance, and promote a continuous learning environment seeking legal excellence.
Our lawyers are carefully selected, with a special attention to their background. We promote inclusion, cooperation, and respect.
Due to the complexity of our practice, we employ professionals with diverse experience in order to boost knowledge exchange and enrich law practice discussions. We foster continuous learning, care in working relations, and professional development.
At Guimarães Bastos Advogados, our lawyers have wide experience as trial attorneys in contentious family and succession cases dealing with estate inventory, divorce, family property division, annulment demand, child custody and visitation dispute, among others. In this field, our experience encompasses litigation involving partnership agreement, issues in Private International Law and complex disputes involving other law fields, even creating precedent.
We also assist our clients in amicable dispute settlements. We offer client support, mediate negotiations, prepare required documentation, and swiftly work on pacifying, satisfying solutions.
In the advising area, we have been pioneers in family and succession planning, acquiring comprehensive knowledge and great expertise – over 30 years, as for one of our founders. Thus, we are fully capable of dealing with complex and legally challenging issues, offering suggestions and solutions that combine creativity, responsibility, and legal certainty.
In Succession, besides preparing usual instruments (wills, prenuptial agreements, common-law marriage, gifts with life interest, and deeds to be in effect in case of incapacity), we offer to check the estate organization which precedes planning, even working with professionals from other fields, so as to help identify the best alternatives. We also offer support and advice in external planning and in international law issues. For that matter, in order to best assist our clients, we have established a network with law firms in several jurisdictions.
