I opened my first office in 1999 in Jerez de la Frontera and, at the same time, in San José del Valle (Cádiz). In 2007, after completing the Advanced Course in Real Estate Management at Deusto and the Expert Course in Financial Products, I opened on the Costa del Sol, first in Fuengirola and later in Torremolinos. Throughout these years my work has centred on civil, family and property law, the fields in which I have specialised and which make up most of my practice. My current location, and the large number of foreign residents in the area, made immigration law a necessary further specialisation.

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The areas of law in which I have the deepest experience, gained above all through practice, have something in common: they arrive at a delicate moment in people’s lives, and in all of them a deadline or a missing document matters as much as the law itself. That is why I always work the same way: first understand what is happening to the person in front of me, tell them clearly what can and cannot be done, and never let a case stall over something that could have been foreseen.

For many years now, more than half of my clients have been foreign nationals, whom I assist in Spanish and in English: people buying a home on the Costa del Sol or in the province of Cádiz from abroad, families relocating to Spain, heirs living in another country. Many of them are American, a good number from Florida, and they know that here they find someone who understands both sides of the Atlantic.

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One more thing worth knowing about me: besides practising law, I am a businesswoman in the property and yachting sectors. I buy, renovate and manage homes myself, and I know the sea from the inside. That changes how I advise: when I review a purchase I look beyond the contract, at the building, the licence, the figures and what happens after completion, because I have sat on the other side of the table too.

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I hold a law degree from the University of Cádiz and completed the Advanced Course in Legal Practice at the Jerez de la Frontera Bar Association. I completed the Advanced Course in Family Law and, in 2007, the Advanced Course in Real Estate Management, and I am a member of the Bar Associations of Jerez de la Frontera and Málaga. In 2015 I obtained the University Expert Diploma in Family and Civil Mediation from the International University of Andalusia and I am a registered mediator with the Spanish Ministry of Justice, which allows me to offer, where the matter permits, a negotiated solution before litigation. I am a member of the Spanish Association of Family Lawyers (AEAFA) and of the National Association of Civil Liability Lawyers.