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For an employee in Spain who needs a few days or weeks off without pay. The request asks the employer for unpaid leave on stated dates, under the collective agreement or as an agreement, because the Spanish Workers' Statute gives no general right to it, and asks for a written answer. It is handed over against a receipt, sent by certified letter or by burofax. In Spanish.

For a consumer in Spain who already asked for a faulty product to be repaired or replaced and did not get it: the company did not do it within a reasonable time, refused, the fault came back or it is serious. The letter requires the seller to reduce the price in proportion or to end the contract and refund the money (arts. 119 to 119 ter of the Spanish Consumer Protection Act, TRLGDCU), and includes the invitation to negotiate that Spanish Organic Law 1/2025 requires before suing. Send it by burofax with certified content. In Spanish.

For a family or person in Spain hiring a household employee on an open-ended contract: cleaning, cooking, childcare or care of an older person, living in or out. It sets out the tasks, the trial period, the hours and rest of Spanish Royal Decree 1620/2011, pay by the month or by the hour, pay in kind, the extra payments, holidays and the termination rules as they stand since Royal Decree-Law 16/2022. Both sides sign it before work starts. In Spanish.

For an employer in Spain that wants to set down in writing what information an employee must keep secret, during the contract and afterwards. It defines confidential information, what is excluded, permitted use, the return of documents and equipment at the end and the period after termination, in line with the duty of good faith in the Spanish Workers' Statute and Spanish Law 1/2019 on Trade Secrets. It is not a non-compete clause: it does not stop the employee working for another business later. Both sides sign it. In Spanish.

For the members of a Spanish limited company who decide to close it: Spanish minutes of the general meeting that resolves the voluntary dissolution (art. 368 of the Spanish Companies Act), opens the liquidation and appoints a liquidator, with a certificate of the minutes and the liquidator's acceptance. It is the private part of the closure: the resolution is put into a public deed before a notary and entered in the Registro Mercantil, and the liquidation ends with another deed, of extinction. In Spanish.

For the tenant and the landlord of a home in Spain when the lease ends: the record both sign when the keys are handed back, with the date of return, the meter readings, the keys returned, the state of each room, the damage the landlord points out and the tenant's comments, the deposit paid, what they agree about it and the account for its return. That date starts the month after which an unreturned deposit bears interest (article 36.4 of the Spanish Urban Leases Act). Signed in two copies, in person. In Spanish.

For a person in Spain who lends a home free of charge to a relative or someone else, and for the person receiving it: the comodato agreement (articles 1740 to 1752 of the Spanish Civil Code) recording that no rent is paid and setting the use, the term — until a date, or until the home is reclaimed with the agreed notice — each party's costs, upkeep and return. It helps prove the loan is free and avoids disputes when the home is taken back. Signed by both parties in two copies. In Spanish.