Q: Can a Real Estate lawyer represent my father in PR for the whole process of selling a property? He's 87 yo.
My father is 87yo and would like to avoid going anywhere to sign documents etc. Related to a sale of a property he owns. How much +/- it will cost?
A:
An attorney in Puerto Rico can represent your father for the purposes of selling real estate property, so long as your father is in full possession of his mental faculties and grants a power-of-attorney to authorize the Puerto Rico attorney to represent him in the sale. The power-of-attorney must specify the property registry description and lot number of the real estate to be sold, as well as the cadaster number of the real estate as filed in the Center for Municipal Incomes collections (CRIM, by its Spanish acronym), and the sale price.
If your father lives outside Puerto Rico, the notarized power-of-attorney must be certified with an apostille issued by the state government agency that oversees notary public commissions, stating that the notary's commission is active at the time of notarizing the power-of-attorney. Once the power of attorney arrives in Puerto Rico, a Puerto Rico attorney-notary (different than the attorney to be empowered) must protocolize the power-of-attorney by way of a deed poll and file it with the Powers-of-attorney Registry of the Office of Notary Inspections. The cost will depend upon the Puerto Rico notary retained for this purpose and may be provided privately to a client. Costs are not published through this forum.
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