Condominium law concentrates the most everyday urban disputes: leaks between units, modifications affecting the façade, contested assemblies, unpaid expenses, and disputes over common spaces. The firm advises consortia, administrators, and individual owners — combining knowledge of the Civil and Commercial Code regime with the technical reading of the building and the work.
Common condominium disputes
Most condominium claims arise from three fronts: the building (physical issues), coexistence (use and prohibitions), and administration (assemblies, expenses, management). Identifying the right front determines the procedural path.
- Leaks, moisture, and damage between functional units.
- Unauthorized modifications: enclosures, extensions, interventions on structure or façade.
- Improper use of common areas and shared parts.
- Disputes over destination, prohibitions, and internal regulations.
- Assemblies with formal defects: notice, quorum, challenge of decisions.
- Unpaid expenses, enforcement, and disputes over liquidated items.
- Disputes with the administrator: management, accountability, removal.
Who is liable and why
Liability varies depending on the source of the problem. The consortium answers for common areas; the individual owner, for their unit and for the consequences of any work executed within it. The administrator answers for their management, for staff acts, and for the conservation of common property — and must render accounts at the frequency the regulation requires.
How we work a condominium case
Every case begins by reading the condominium regulation. It is the contract that governs the building's coexistence and resolves more questions than the untrained eye notices. From there, the firm accompanies the client — consortium or owner — through the procedural path that best serves the matter.
- Analysis of the condominium regulation and construction documentation.
- Technical determination of the source of the problem when there is physical damage (leaks, fissures, modifications).
- Pre-trial negotiation, extraordinary assemblies, and mandatory mediation.
- Judicial claim or defense when negotiation fails.
- Ongoing advice to the consortium on prevention policy and planned works.
Assemblies, expenses, and challenges
The assembly is the consortium's sovereign body. A resolution adopted with a formal defect — defective notice, lack of quorum, insufficient majority, omission from the agenda — can be challenged judicially. Unpaid expenses, in turn, are an enforceable instrument: disputing their amount requires its own procedural path, distinct from opposition to enforcement.
- Challenges of assemblies for defects in notice, quorum, or majority.
- Defense against expense enforcements and disputes over liquidated items.
- Claims for unauthorized modifications affecting common parts.
- Mediation and litigation over leaks between units.
- Advice to the consortium on major works affecting the building.
Why the technical view matters
Many condominium disputes escalate because they are argued in legal terms before anyone has diagnosed what happened technically. When the team reads the regulation, the building plan, and the on-site pathology, the case is resolved where it should be — without piling on cross-claims or stretching the litigation.