The FOREIGN RESIDENTS ADVICE BUREAU was established in Fuengirola in 1995. Our original objective was to provide a full range of personal and legal services for the English speaking community throughout the Costa del Sol (Malaga to Gibraltar)

Since then, we have accumulated a great amount of experience representing international clients with their legal & personal affairs in Spain.

No matter what advice & help you require, you will find us near you, accessible, approachable and efficient.

Our aim is to establish a personal relationship with you, so that, we can offer you a tailored made personal, legal and fiscal service to suit your particular needs and requirements.

Our team of professional in various fields offer you a full range of personal, legal and fiscal services in Málaga, Torremolinos, Benalmádena, Fuengirola, Mijas, Marbella, Estepona, Sabinillas, Algeciras and Gibraltar.

Our main aim is to make processes as transparent as possible, helping our clients to overcome the difficulties of dealing with other legal systems (sometimes unfamiliar and also in a foreign language).

Most common services we carry out are:

  • Transfer of Spanish properties titles under inheritance of British citizens who died in Spain or England.
  • Transfer of Spanish properties due to British divorce settlements.
  • Ratification of Spanish Deeds.
  • English and Spanish Probate.
  • Legal opinions of Spanish Law specially concerning matters of Probate and Wills.
  • Spanish legal procedures to buy, sell or litigate properties or companies interests.
  • Bilingual Powers of Attorney/Litigations.
  • Attestation of signatures.
  • Obtain the Spanish N.I.E.
  • Debt recovery.
  • Certified copies of original Spanish documents.
  • English/Spanish Wills.
  • Searches at Land Registries and Companies House whether in Spain, England or other jurisdictions.
  • Obtaining, translating and legalisation of Spanish Certificates (Birth, Marriage and Death certificates).
  • Legal and Sworn translations from and into English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, German, Romanian, Russian and Ukrainian and reverse.
  • Legalisations at UK Foreign Office and Foreign Consulates.