Our son died in August 2025 and left his entire Spanish Estate to a girlfriend. This was offensive to the family who had gifted nearly all of his estate to him 3 years before he died. Esther confirmed... See more
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Advocate Abroad consists of English-speaking lawyers, accountants, property professionals and financial service providers to protect your rights abroad. Our professionals can be found in more than 20 countries.
Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 613, 08007, Barcelona, Spain
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I hired Elsa Melancia through AdvocateAbroad to clarify a demand letter from a company in Portugal. Initially, she was polite and responsive, which gave me confidence in her ability to handle my case. However, my experience after paying the fee was extremely disappointing.
Communication became painfully slow, with emails often ignored. Responses only came when I threatened to escalate the matter with AdvocateAbroad or requested a refund. Even after more than two months, Elsa has not made any significant progress on my case.
This lack of professionalism and accountability is deeply frustrating, especially when dealing with time-sensitive legal matters like ours. I chose AdvocateAbroad expecting reliable and efficient legal assistance, but this experience has left me feeling angry and let down. I would not recommend this lawyer and AdvocateAbroad to others based on my experience.

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Top lawyer,very competent and fast. Top experiance and professional. The best lawyer I had ever. Help me in a short time and always available...
I am ever so grateful to Advocate Abroad for helping me engage the legal services of Francisco. His performance over the years has been extremely admirable. He is honest, transparent, and ethical in his dealings. He demonstrates an excellent grasp of the Spanish legal system, which has been very reassuring to me. I have tremendous confidence in his capabilities. He does not hesitate to go the extra mile to gain the best possible result for his client.
Advocate Abroad is truly fortunate to have such a well-informed, qualified, committed, and honourable member in their network.
I would also like to thank Advocate Abroad for providing us with a safe, affordable, and extensive choice of sound legal services - all under one roof.
Saved me from making some classic mistakes on the real estate market. Clear pricing.
Excellent service. Miguel was very helpful and informative. Me made the transactions very easy for us.
I am very thankfull to Šarūnas for helping me out with my case. I had issues with the notary in my case and I needed some legal assistance and mediating. So Šarūnas stepped in and solved everything easy and fast, very professional and responsive. If I would need again some legal help, I know where to get it now. Thank you very much!
Maria was fantastic. I was silly and was caught drink driving. She negotiated with the prosecution and got me a very much reduced fine and ban. She is also now looking after my wife's re-unification residencia application.
The speed with which Oscar replied was a complete surprise and allowed me the confidence to think that the document would be returned in time. The service was polite, punctual and efficient.
I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Rosa for her exceptional support in resolving my situation. She was incredibly responsive, addressing all my questions and doubts promptly and thoroughly. I truly appreciated her professionalism and efficiency.
What impressed me the most was how smoothly we managed to handle everything remotely, thanks to her expertise. I highly recommend her services to anyone in need of assistance.
Thank you so much, Rosa!
Very professional service from start to finish. We found the advice and approach extremely useful and highly professional. Thank you!
Great service. Very prompt responses. Queries explained well. Kept informed of the process
Miguel was fluent in multiple languages and he was INSANELY proficient in local case law as it applied to divorce. He coordinated seamlessly with my US lawyer, developed very effective strategies and was familiar with all the lawyers my ex wife was hiring in the area in addition to having litigated against them multiple times. What should have been a disaster (personally and financially), Miguel turned in to a winning situation for us. The entire case took 3 years and he never missed a beat. Anyone facing a divorce in the EU, and in particular Spain or anyone that also has to deal through multiple jurisdictions as I did (the US and Spain) should hire Miguel. If you're just in Spain having a Spanish divorce, hire Miguel. Thinking about marrying a Spaniard...talk. to. Miguel.
After a terrible experience with another law firm in Porto. I decided to research diligently for a new immigration lawyer. I found Tiago Gomes online and after reading all the excellent reviews about him, I reached out to Tiago. He responded immediately, listened patiently to my inquiry and offered professional, concise advise. I felt immediate confidence in instructing him to act on our behalf in obtaining citizen status for myself and my children.
From beginning to end Tiago’s communications were outstanding, he worked professionally and intently on our applications. At times it wasn’t straightforward, but he never wavered.
I cannot recommend Tiago Gomes enough, he is an exceptional lawyer!
Esther is a very friendly and capable lawyer. Communication went fast and smoothly. I am very happy and when I am in need of a lawyer in Gran Canaria again, I will contact Esther immediately.
Despina was a pleasure to work with and was very professional. We are so grateful for her expertise and ability to clearly lay out a well articulated plan of action. She took the time to understand our situation and and was always available to answer any questions. We had unfortunately needed her services because our wedding venue sent us additional "overages" charges after our wedding and was holding our wedding photos as collateral. Despina was able to get to the bottom of this and resolved our case.
Contacted them to ask for qualified lawyer to deal with property dispute in Greece.
I was given written confirmation, along with first name and initial, of a Greek lawyer who would call me at 14:30hrs local time.
This came and went with no call. I then rang the AdvocateAbroad.com phone given on the email confirming appointment. The person who answered spoke native standard English and said I could "cancel the appointment" if I wished.
This was the only solution he kept on proposing when I explained that I wanted the call to happen since I had set aside the time and prepared for it.
When I said I wasn't impressed, he hung up the phone.
When I tried to call again, the number went straight to voicemail.
Really astonishingly bad and unprofessional. Not only can't they keep time but they 'offer' a cancellation of a first contact phone call scheduled by them as though it was a gift.
I suggest: don't bother

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After entering my contact details on advocate abroad page within 2 days I was contacted via WhatsApp as I reside in Australia. Maria who attended me was informative and accurate on how long it would take to obtain my police clearance certificate she also knew about the laws of the country I needed it for and how to proceed. Overall it was a very smooth process.
Hiring Sabela was the best decision we made in the process of buying our Spanish home. No stone was left unturned, every T crossed ,every I dotted. Brilliant communication with Nanda and Translated for myself. Nothing but confidence in her.
I then flew over to sign and she met me and she took me through the whole process, even witnessed her take the Bank Manager to bare as he tried to over charge on fees,
I couldn't recommend her services highly enough.if buying a home in Spain,Do not go it alone, hire this lady/ firm , you won't regret it.
Rgds Nanda/Eoghan
In seeking my Spanish green card Inma was very efficient, professional and she reassured me time and time again when I had doubts regarding the process.
As a foreigner with limited knowledge of the language she was a breeze to deal with in English.
All forms were submitted on time and I hardly had to do anything but trust her experience and guidance.
I’m more than happy with the results.
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