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How Cataluña's art. 58 bis bonificación works: a flat 99 percent for spouses, a sliding scale from 99 percent down to 20 percent for the rest of Grupo I and II, and the rule that trades other reducciones for the bonificación.
Andalucía's 99 percent bonificación for Grupo I and II heirs and donees, mortis causa and inter vivos, the documento público condition on gifts over 5,000 euros, and how it fits into the state calculation.
The impuesto de sucesiones step by step: the six-month deadline, state reductions, the 7.65% to 34% scale, multiplier coefficients, and the regional bonificaciones that can cut the bill by 99%.
Art. 94 CC's visitation rules: how a judge sets time, manner and place, and the Ley 8/2021 bar that suspends or blocks visitation entirely when a parent faces a criminal process or is imprisoned for violence.
How a Spanish mutual-agreement divorce actually runs: the judicial route when there are minor children, the notarial alternative when there are not, and what happens when a judge rejects part of the convenio regulador.
Art. 92 CC in full: when shared custody follows automatically from parental agreement, when a judge can order it at one parent's request, and the criminal-process and violence bar that closes it off entirely.
Separacion de bienes under art. 1435 CC, how spouses set it up with capitulaciones before a Notario, and why it is the default marital regime, not the exception, in Cataluna and Baleares.
The map of Spanish family law: the notarial mutuo-acuerdo divorce, custodia compartida, child support and the offline CGPJ tables, the gananciales default, and protection orders.
The difference between a cautelar alejamiento and a full orden de proteccion, who can request one, the 72-hour hearing, and the mandatory prison term for breaching one against a protected victim.
What Spaniards call divorcio express is the notarial or LAJ divorce under art. 87 CC: no minor non-emancipated children, a three-month wait from the wedding, and a convenio regulador instead of a courtroom.
How sociedad de gananciales works under arts. 1315, 1316 and 1344 CC: what falls inside it, how it dissolves on divorce, and how capitulaciones let spouses opt out of it.
The proportionality rule behind Spanish child support, what alimentos legally cover, when the amount can change, and why the CGPJ's online tablas orientadoras tool is currently offline.