Judicial intervention is often necessary to validate or enforce property rights. This need gives rise to litigation, whether to secure a contested property right, to reclaim a lost right or to enforce, through eviction, the property right and the property occupied irregularly by third parties. Having a reliable and competent law firm, such as Ulises Cabrera, Abogados, is a way of guaranteeing the full exercise of the right to property.

Our trajectory of more than 50 years offering uninterrupted legal services in the Dominican Republic has been characterised by a continuous presence in the courts. Likewise, we have vast experience in claims for payment of securities, contract termination, damages, referrals, forced and voluntary interventions, injunctions, among others.

Some decisions that have set important precedents in national jurisprudence have been adopted on the occasion of proceedings brought by our firm in the areas of forced execution, distribution agreements under Law 173 and contractual civil liability, among others.

Our legal services in this area include effective advice and technical assistance in legal proceedings arising from the application of criminal sanctions as a consequence of economic criminal offences, high-tech crime cases, safeguarding of fundamental rights, traffic accidents, as well as any other criminal disputes arising from laws involving criminal sanctions.

Our experience in this area of law guarantees our clients high quality representation, committed to the best outcome at any stage of the process, and before any competent authority.

Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) is understood as a way of resolving disputes outside the conventional means of litigation. For ADR to be effective, it is necessary to identify the client’s potential liability and carry out a careful risk analysis.

Our conciliatory vocation and our team’s proven reputation for seriousness and professional competence have been decisive in bringing about out-of-court settlements favourable to the interests of our clients, with the consequent reduction in costs that this entails for their benefit.

Labour Law in the Dominican Republic aims to regulate the rights and obligations of employers and workers in the private sector, and to provide the means to reconcile their respective interests. In this regard, we offer the following services:

• Representing national and international companies in recruitment processes.
• Employer counselling.
• Worker counselling.
• Conflict resolution.
• Drafting of Employment Contracts.
• Drafting of the Collective Agreement.
• Temporary suspension of the effects of employment contracts.
• Termination of employment contracts under special conditions.
• Advice in cases of eviction and dismissal of workers.
• Advice on the Dominican Social Security System.
• Representation before labour courts.

Our vast experience in the Contentious Administrative Jurisdiction, allows our clients and national and foreign investors, to have a team of lawyers that will provide advice and technical assistance in the different modalities that govern the relations of citizens and private companies with the Public Administration. In this sense, we offer the following services:

• Conduct of legal proceedings;
• Challenging administrative acts before the public authorities and before the Contentious Administrative Jurisdiction;
• Contracts with the Dominican State in the construction, energy and real estate sectors;
• Registration in the National Register of State Suppliers;
• Advice and discussion in the conclusion of contracts with the State in the construction sectors.

We assist our clients in the processing and obtaining of permits, licences and all types of procedures relating to compliance with the legal regulations in force in the Dominican Republic in the field of maritime law.

We have experience in representing national shipping companies and foreign insurers in legal proceedings before the Dominican courts for civil liability claims and damages arising from the provision of maritime transport services.

We have provided legal advice to international shipping companies in the hiring of local agents in the Dominican Republic, through representation contracts.

Family Law in the Dominican Republic is made up of a set of legal provisions aimed at regulating the relations between members of the same family nucleus, derived from kinship and a common patrimony.

In this regard, we have extensive experience in handling inheritance matters, mainly in highly complex partition processes. Our skills in conducting negotiations and a traditionally conciliatory philosophy in the handling of this type of cases have enabled us to reach harmonious and extrajudicial agreements between conflicting successors, with the consequent reduction of legal costs and time that this entails, to the benefit of our clients. We also offer legal advice to foreign clients who must exhaust the corresponding procedures to achieve the transfer to their name of the patrimony established in the territory of the Dominican Republic. We also offer the following services:

• Divorce for Incompatibility of Character.
• Divorce by Mutual Consent.
• Divorce on Steam.
• Adoption.
• Guardianship of minors.
• Family Council.
• Survey of family property.
• Interdiction proceedings.
• Separation of Property Agreement.
• Rectification of civil status certificates.
• Paternity Acknowledgment and Acknowledgment of Paternity.
• Claim in Partition of Estates.
• Claim in Partition of Community Property.

We provide legal assistance in the regularisation of the immigration status of foreign immigrants who decide to settle in the Dominican Republic. We offer the following services:

• Management and obtaining of residence, work and study visas.
• Management and obtaining of provisional and definitive residence permits.
• Management and obtaining of provisional and definitive residence renewals.
• Naturalisation processes.
• Authorisation for the departure of a minor.