09.11.2020
02.04.2020
Checklist for Buying a Detached House
The law obliges the buyer to inspect the property carefully. After the sale one may not invoke a defect that should have been detected during the inspection. The buyer should take enough time to inspect the property and visit the site more than once. The parts of a...
27.09.2019
Declining Inheritance
How to decline an inheritance and its consequences When declining an inheritance the beneficiary gives up their legal or bequeathed right to the inherited property. This means the beneficiary is no longer a shareholder in the decedent’s estate. When a...
27.09.2019
Renting Out – Real Estate Law
Renting Out a House Real Estate Law December 29, 2015 This article has been published in the Omakoti Magazine Usually residential rental properties are apartments rather than entire houses. A property owner however, is free to rent out an entire single family home as...
27.09.2019
Equality of Shareholders
This article has been published in Asunto & Kiinteistö Magazine As per Chapter 1, § 9 of Limited Liability Housing Companies Act all the shares of the housing co-operation establish same rights unless provided otherwise in the articles of association. General...
27.09.2019
Why Estate Inventory Must Include Surviving Spouse’s Assets and Debts
Family and Inheritance Law If the decedent was married at the time of death, an estate inventory deed must include the surviving spouse’s assets and debts in addition to the decedent’s assets and debts. Also, an ex-spouses assets and debts must be...
18.06.2019
News about Building Contracts – Final Accounts with Construction Contracts and Collection of Claims
The General Terms and Conditions (GTC) of building contracts are wide and complicated in scope and challenging to interpret. The GTC means a standard form contract, whose clauses are the same within the entire construction industry. They are meant to help parties to...
17.06.2019
Ending a Civil Service Employment Contract
Ending a civil service employment contract – that is an employment contract governed by legi specialii, namely the Civil Service Act and the Act on Municipical Civil Servants – must be ended as per the aforementioned acts, for the Employment Contract Act does not...
14.06.2019
Changes to Zero-Hour Contracts
Previously, both the Employment Contract Act and the Working Hours Act have allowed employing workers under so-called zero-hour contracts, meaning contracts where the employer is not obliged to provide minimum weekly working hours to the employee and the employee is...
13.06.2019