Others

1. The act
The notary act testifies certain facts whose incontrovertible recording may prove very useful. Remember that the Notary's assertion that in a specific moment certain circumstances took place, can only be destroyed in a legal action by very conclusive proof.

The same utility as these acts of presence mentioned above, are those of notification, whereby it is set on record for all effects that a person has received a specific information from another, marginal to the efficacy specifically marked by the Law in certain cases.

2. Marriage articles
Most Legal Systems allow spouses to regularise their economic marriage relations as they deem appropriate. The Notary will advise you about the possibilities most widely used, advising you which one best suits your specific situation, according to your National Law. Remember that the most suitable system for a marriage where one of the spouses is a civil servant and the other does not work, need not necessarily coincide with the one preferred by two entrepreneurs or professionals. When this is a question of changing from a community marital property system to another of separate estate, the Notary will proceed to make the respective settlement and distribution, after drawing up an inventory of the communal assets.

It is particularly advisable to execute marriage articles when it is a marriage between persons of different nationalities.

Also do not forget that a couple need not necessarily be married in order to regulate their estate relations. In addition, by means of agreements that regulate estate relations of persons united de facto, two people in this status may, through the instruments granted by civil and mercantile law, establish a regulatory scheme that is very similar to the legally established community systems. The fact that the legislator has not regulated these situations completely is no impediment, for those who find themselves included here, to take advantage of the rules of our Estate Law set out in a general way.