Services for individuals
- Land legal relationship
- Real estate and construction
- Inheritance
- Marriage contracts
- Divorce suits and severance
- Commitment law
- Traffic accidents
- Participation in criminal suits
Land legal relationship
Due to the introduction of private ownership of land and sharing lands of former collective farms, more and more people are becoming owners of areas which are intended either for building or for agriculture upkeep. As a result, many issues and problems connected with buying land arise. These include acquiring plots of land, registration of state acts on the right of ownership of land, privatization or buying/selling of land, rent etc.
People’s ignorance of Ukrainian land law very often leads to the appearance of difficult situations and even the loss of the right to land. Our lawyers will help you to prevent possible problems, minimize negative consequences of existing situations and to confirm your right to land in court.
Providing legal consultancy
At the Syutkin and Partners law firm you can receive professional, qualified consultancy on any issues connected with the land legal relationship, for example: receiving a plot of land, registration of ownership to land, land farming, land buying/selling, privatization, etc.
Our lawyers can also provide consultancy about actions in the event of illegal land seizure or attempts to violate your property rights on the part of other persons or organizations.
We have considerable practical experience in solving difficult arguments and conflicts in this sphere of law.
Legal auditing in the land legal relationship
In issues regarding adjudgement and confirmation of rights to land our lawyers shall examine in detail various ways of their purchase and defence. We study and analyse normative documentation regulating the legal relationship in the sphere of land tenure in Ukraine as well documents establishing rights and contracts concerning land objects. It is on the basis of this analysis that we provide consultancy on the possibility or impossibility of purchasing or renting land facilities, and about any possible negative consequences of a deal and ways in which such consequences can be prevented.
Drawing up of various types of contracts connected with land
Our lawyers will help you to draw up any contract in the sphere of land legal relationship. The various types of contracts, in the network of which we can provide you qualified juridical support, are mentioned below:
- Contract on bargain and sale of land facilities;
- Contract on land rent;
- Contract on land security;
- Contract of trust management of land;
- Contract on donation of land;
(See also point «Commitment law»).
Registration and legal support of contracts
We provide full juridical support during the conducting of deals on buying, selling and renting land objects.
Our lawyers will give you the legal rationale for bargaining, will help you to draw up commercial contracts aimed at lapse of rights to land objects in the present and future (contracts of selling/buying, renting, security, other operations in the sphere of land tenure). In addition, they will control the process of bargaining, its notarization and state registration. They will also check the form and content of documents which establish rights.
Representation at juridical bodies concerning agrarian issues
In the event of breach of land ownership rights (such as illegal land acquisition, depriving of land by decision of state bodies or legal authorities, unilateral breach of contract of tenancy, etc.) and appearance of juridical contests we provide services to defend the interests of people in courts of all instances.
Our lawyers audit all documents which establish rights, contracts, court decisions (if an argument has already been adjudicated) and develop an optimum defence scheme which then remains property of our client.
Our lawyers provide support in disputes:
- connected with admission and defence of land property rights;
- connected with ownership, use and disposal of land;
- incidental from land rent contracts;
- connected with land privatization and buying/selling of land.
Real estate and construction
More and more Ukrainian citizens are investing their money into real state. At the same time, the number of situations of unfair actions coming from people willing to enrich themselves at the expense of trusting investors is becoming more and more frequent. Thus, “phantom” construction companies, acting on a perfectly legal foundation, quite often fraudulently take possession of considerable amounts of money and leave individual investors without their money and without their promised apartment. This type of threat can await you during the selling/buying of real estate property on the secondary housing market.
The reason for the appearance of such situations is usually ignorance of the law and the fact that officials, making use of loopholes in the legal system, can be bought.
Our firm’s specialists are able to offer you their services on working out contracts and schemes to buy real estate facilities and on the auditing and maintenance of deals. They can also help you by consulting on the reasonability of buying different types of object.
Providing juridical consultancy
At the Syutkin and Partners law firm you can receive qualified, professional consultancy on any questions connected with real estate and construction.
Furthermore, our lawyers can provide you with consultancy on how to proceed in the event of illegal land acquisition or encroachment on your property rights on the part of other people or organizations.
We have considerable practical experience of solving complicated arguments and conflicts in this sphere of law.
Legal auditing in the sphere of construction and real estate
If you planning to buy or build any real estate objects, our lawyers can examine in detail the various ways in which you can carry out your intentions. We study and analyse normative documentation regulating legal relationship in the sphere of real estate and construction in Ukraine, and also documents establishing rights, contracts concerning facilities which you may want to purchase or build.
Out firms attorneys shall, on the basis of valid arbitration practice, provide you with consultancy on the weak points of any deal and any potential risks therein, which could provide a basis for a challenge in future against a client’s rights. During their work on a deal, our firm’s attorneys minimize such potential risks.
Drawing up all types of contracts connected with real estate and building
Our lawyers will help you to draw up any contract in the sphere of real estate and construction. All the types of contracts, in the network of which we can provide you with qualified juridical support, are mentioned below:
- contract on bargain and sale of real estate facilities;
- contract on renting of real estate objects;
- contract of bailment, building (designing, capital construction and reconstruction);
- contract of wadset;
- contract on real estate insurance;
- contract of property trust management;
- contract on donation of real estate;
- contract on inheritance of real estate.
(See also point «Commitment law»)
Representation of a client’s interests at juridical bodies
Our firm’s attorneys can also provide effective defence of your rights in the sphere of real estate and construction at courts of all instances on the following categories of deals:
- disputes connected with admission of property rights to real estate objects, including unauthorized structures;
- disputes connected with ownership, use and disposal of real estate facilities, including unfinished building;
- disputes arising from contracts on renting buildings, structures etc.;
- disputes arising from construction contracts;
- disputes arising from contracts on investing and sharing in capital in the construction of real estate objects;
- appeal against activity (inactivity) of a public authority or a body of local self-government.
Our practice in this sphere allows us, in the event of breach of covenant by the contractors, to carry out the necessary actions for juridical recourse, juridically implement denunciation, recover a debt, penalty or losses caused by the unfair actions of a contractor and to also fulfill a court ruling.
Inheritance
The process of accedence in heirship often entails various difficulties connected either with the heir's ignorance of all laws, norms and rules, which are essential in right accedence, or with intended counteraction on the part of other interested sides. This leads to various pecuniary disputes and lengthy suits. Sometimes a situation appears whereby an heir is illegally disinherited and mention of him/her in the will is forgotten. Juridical recourse makes the correction of such mistakes possible. Our company’s lawyers can support you in the fight for your rights.
Our lawyers can also help you to simplify the process of accedence in heirship and to shorten the terms of this procedure as much as possible. You can use this service either as part of a comprehensive approach which can be offered by our lawyers, or separately.
Marriage contracts
Contractual relations in the field of marriage are becoming more and more popular in Ukraine. Entering into a marriage contract helps to avoid many unpleasant points connected with any pecuniary claims by spouses, and guarantees preservation of their rights to property objects in the event of cessation of marriage relations. Furthermore, such a contract can regulate other, non-pecuniary, relations, concerning rights and obligations of spouses, etc., which can prevent the appearance of certain conflict situations within a family.
A covenant of marriage can be drawn up before a marriage takes place or after its registration.
Our company’s attorneys advise not to defy execution of such document, because with its help it is possible to avoid difficult pecuniary disputes in the event of a divorce suit and to save time and money too. We can help you to draw up a marriage contract taking into consideration the individual characteristics of your family, which guarantees maximum defence of your rights in the future.
In addition, our lawyers have worked out a program called “Marriage contract on-line”, which enables you to receive an individual draft of a marriage contract by e-mail even without coming to our office. You can order this service anonymously. You send us all the necessary information, including the completed form, in which you can mention any points, even those which are not discussed out loud.
Divorce suits and severance
Cessation of marriage relations and divorce suits - these are always stressful situations for all the members of a family. Some of the most acute points are sharing property and finance acquired together and also the making of a decision on parental rights to children after the divorce.
The existence of a marriage contract considerably simplifies implementation of a divorce suit. But if you do not have such a document and this issue then needs to be resolved in court, our lawyers are ready to provide their services and help to determine this difficult situation in the shortest time possible.
Road accidents. Our lawyers successfully represent the interests of clients in cases related to compensation of moral and financial damages caused to them as a result of road accidents.
Our company takes on itself all work connected with preparation of statements or claims, ensures payment of state duty, submits all necessary documents to court and provides legal support to a case directly in courts.
Commitment law
The essence of the work of experts in commitment law consists of developing and preparing all documents necessary documents for the implementation of different actions with you property, also for the fulfillment and confirmation of your rights and relations with other individuals and legal entities.
The timely examination of a document can save keep you from serious legal risks in the future and save you considerable expense connected with execution of a contract or with negative consequences arising from its non-execution.
In the sphere of commitment law we provide our clients with the following services:
- Drawing up different contracts and discussion of their clauses with contractors;
- Juridical examination of contracts;
- Consultancy on questions of different forms of security of obligations;
- Adjustment of disagreements arising during a contract’s implementation;
- Minimization of losses during a denunciation;
- Drawing up claims connected with non-execution of a contract’s terms by the parties involved;
- Denunciation in juridical way.
- Participation in criminal suits.
Traffic accident
Our lawyers successfully represent interests of clients in cases related to moral and a material damage harmed by road accident.
Our company takes all the efforts connected with preparation of statements or claims, provides payment of a State Tax, submits all necessary documents to the court and implements the legal support of the case, directly in courts.
