Life situations
Dismissal, unpaid wages, divorce, a car accident, inheritance, a residence permit: step-by-step actions, deadlines and the Georgian statutes in force.
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Public authorities and fines
- Appealing a government body's decision or a municipal act
- Court hearing on an administrative offence with risk of arrest
- Administrative detention: your rights at the police station
- Fine / administrative offence
- Apostille and legalisation of documents
- Camera fine, but someone else was driving or the car was sold
- Building permit / illegal construction
- Criminal record certificate
- Positive drug test: administrative liability for use
- Drunk driving: licence suspension and refusing a breath test
- Free lawyer and legal advice from the state
- Driving licence points exhausted
- Lost passport or ID card: replacement
- First ID card for a minor
- Challenging a building permit issued for a neighbouring project
- Municipal parking fine (Tbilisi, Batumi)
- Contesting an on-the-spot patrol police fine
- Charged with petty hooliganism
- Charged with disobeying a lawful police order
- Power of attorney from abroad for use in Georgia
- Blocking a road at a protest: arrest or fine
- I sold the car, but it is still registered in my name
Contracts and debts
- Bank account, salary or pension has been seized
- I transferred money to scammers myself: will the bank refund it?
- Collecting receivables from a counterparty company
- Bank, loan, microfinance, card debit
- Bank froze an account or transfer and asks for the source of funds
- A bank or MFO sued me over a loan
- Debt collectors call, threaten and write to my relatives
- Terminate a contract because the other party breached it
- Renovation or construction: contractor missed deadlines, defective work, advance payment
- Error in credit history, Creditinfo 'blacklist'
- Recovering a debt or loan
- Judgment in hand, but the debtor 'has nothing'
- Listed in the debtors' registry: consequences and how to get off it
- Won in court, debtor won't pay: enforcement through the NBE
- Complaint about an enforcement officer's actions or inaction
- Client won't pay a freelancer or sole trader for services
- Renting housing or premises
- Has the limitation period on a debt expired?
- Loan taken out in my name by fraudsters
- Cannot pay the loan: restructuring or deferral
- Lent money by bank transfer, no written receipt
- Creditor got an enforcement writ from a notary without a court
- Reduce a disproportionate contractual penalty
- Can debts stop me from leaving Georgia?
Fundamental rights
Consumer rights
- Car service did a poor repair or damaged the car
- Warranty repair refused as “not covered”
- Defective goods / poor-quality service
- Online purchase, delivery, subscription
- Custom-made furniture, kitchen or windows: missed deadline or defective work
- Flight cancelled or delayed, denied boarding: compensation
- How to file a complaint with the Competition and Consumer Protection Agency (GCCA)
- Returning or exchanging a non-defective item bought in a shop (didn’t fit)
- Marketplace: who is liable — the platform or the seller
- Insurer refused to pay out for an apartment or other property
- Bought from an Instagram/Facebook shop: prepayment, nothing delivered or wrong item
- Dispute with a telecom or internet provider: wrong bill, roaming, unexpected charges
- Tour cancelled or travel agency not refunding the money
- Huge electricity, gas or water bill: wrong meter readings, recalculation
- Electricity, gas or water cut off over unpaid bills
- Warranty repair dragging on or the defect keeps recurring
Business
- Contract of a sole entrepreneur or LLC with a foreign client
- Bank blocked a sole entrepreneur’s or LLC’s account and asks for documents
- Open a sole entrepreneur’s or LLC’s account at a Georgian bank
- Starting a business: sole trader, LLC, tax regime
- Closing a sole trader (IE) in Georgia
- Changing the director of an LLC
- Selling or transferring a share in an LLC
- Voluntary liquidation of an LLC
Criminal cases
- I was beaten up
- I have become a victim of a crime
- Appealing a criminal verdict
- Detention, charges, defence
- Caught with drugs for personal use
- Charged with domestic violence
- Domestic violence criminal case — the victim’s position
- Police call it a civil dispute, not fraud
- Invested in a fake exchange or broker
- Teenager charged with a crime
- Paid for goods or rent — the seller disappeared
- Entered card details on a link — money was debited
- The prosecutor offers a plea bargain — should I accept?
- Charged with theft
- Charged with making threats
- I am threatened with murder or violence
- I knocked someone down: criminal case against the driver
- The offender was convicted: how to get the money
- “Bank security service” persuaded me to transfer money
- I am summoned to the police for questioning as a witness
Personal data
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Family
- Unpaid Child Support: Enforcement and Arrears
- Child Support, the Child's Residence and Contact
- Child Support When the Payer Has Undeclared Income, Runs a Sole Proprietorship or Has No Formal Job
- Increasing or Reducing Child Support
- Child Support from a Parent Living Abroad
- Child's Passport Without the Other Parent's Consent
- Selling an Apartment with a Child's Share: Court Consent
- The Other Parent Objects to the Child's Trip Abroad
- Consent for a child's travel abroad: how to issue it and what is needed at the border
- Divorce and division of property
- Divorce of foreigners in Georgia
- Uncontested divorce at the Public Service Hall, without court
- Divorce when the spouse is abroad or whereabouts are unknown
- Domestic violence
- Mortgage and joint loans in divorce
- Whose property it is: pre-marital, gifted, inherited or joint
- Marriage of foreigners in Georgia
- Contact with the child obstructed despite a court decision
Health and medicine
- Appealing a disability assessment decision: status denied or degree lowered
- Obtaining disability status (medical-social assessment)
- Child with disability status: social package and services
- Russian or other foreign pension while living in Georgia
- Withdrawing funded pension savings when leaving Georgia (foreigners and emigrants)
- Medical malpractice / patient rights
- Pension and social assistance
- Recognition as a support recipient (instead of legal incapacity)
- How to apply for targeted social assistance (database of socially vulnerable families)
- Score raised and benefit stopped: reassessment and appeal
- Universal Healthcare Programme: what it covers and for whom
- Whether a medicine is covered by the State reimbursement programme
- Foreigners in Georgia: entitlement to State healthcare and need for insurance
- Refusal of State-funded treatment: how to appeal
Immigration and citizenship
- Obtaining Georgian citizenship
- Refused entry to Georgia at the border
- Foreign driving licence in Georgia: how long it can be used and how to exchange it
- Georgian citizen acquires foreign citizenship: how to keep Georgian citizenship
- Residence permit for IT specialists and IT entrepreneurs
- Overstayed in Georgia: fine and consequences
- Recruitment agency for work abroad: how to check it
- Remote worker for a foreign employer: is a right to work required?
- Residence permit refused: appeal or reapply
- Renewing a residence permit: when to apply and what to do if it expires
- Residence permit and the right to work
- Right to work for a foreign employee
- Right to work for self-employed foreigners and freelancers
- Short-term residence permit for property purchase
- How long you can stay in Georgia visa-free and how the period is counted
- Work residence permit: income and company turnover requirements
Inheritance
- Court division of an estate among co-heirs
- Accepting an inheritance
- Accepted the inheritance in fact, without going to a notary
- Withdrawing money from the deceased's bank accounts and deposits
- Missed the inheritance acceptance deadline for a valid reason
- Heir living abroad: accepting a Georgian inheritance remotely
- A relative registered the whole inheritance in his or her own name, concealing other heirs
- Establishing kinship in court for an inheritance
- Renouncing an inheritance
- Property document issued with an error in the deceased's name
- Deceased's property not registered in the Public Registry
- Am I liable for the deceased's debts (loans, microfinance)
- Contesting a will
- Making a will: notarial or holographic
Copyright and IP
Employment
- Dismissed for gross or repeated misconduct
- Dismissal of an employee
- Request written reasons for dismissal and do not miss the deadline
- Employer wants to dismiss an employee lawfully
- Employer (individual entrepreneur or LLC) hires an employee: contract and mandatory terms
- “Grey” salary: one amount on paper, another in hand
- Pressured into writing a resignation “at own request”
- Employer hires a foreign national: what it must do
- Working without a written contract: how to prove the employment relationship
- Working conditions: leave, overtime, maternity, discrimination
- Complaint to the Labour Inspection Service
- Maternity leave: how long it lasts and how much the state pays
- Overtime is not being paid
- Dismissed while pregnant or not reinstated after maternity leave
- Dismissed during probation
- Redundancy for economic or organisational reasons
- Remote work: terms, working time, monitoring and return to office
- Resignation at own request
- Sick leave: who pays and how it is issued
- Employer unilaterally changes pay, position or schedule
- Unpaid wages
- Discrimination at work
- Workplace injury: compensation from the employer
Property and housing
- Partition of co-owned property; buying out a share
- Developer missed the completion date
- Developer insolvent, building frozen
- Keys handed over but ownership not registered
- Can a foreigner buy an apartment in Georgia, and how
- Evicting a relative or former partner living in my apartment without a right
- Neighbour does not pay apartment owners' association contributions (lift, staircase, repairs)
- Boundary dispute with a neighbour
- Obtaining ownership of unlawfully occupied or used land
- Buying a land plot: what to check
- Registering a flat or house on old (Soviet-era) documents
- Public Registry suspended or refused registration
- Error in the registry extract: area, name, address
- Dispute with neighbours
- Defects in a new flat from the developer
- Noise from a bar, club or night-time construction
- Buying a flat from a developer during construction
- Recognising ownership through the court
- Gifting a flat to a relative: formalities and taxes
- Buying and selling real estate
- Selling or buying property in Georgia remotely by power of attorney
- Drafting a flat lease with inventory and deposit
- Tenant does not pay and will not leave: how to evict
- Legalising an unauthorised building
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Taxes
- Customs clearance of an imported car
- Car with foreign plates in Georgia: time limits and fines
- Is my income from abroad taxed in Georgia
- Tax on selling a flat, house or car
- Working remotely from Georgia for a foreign employer
- Tax on renting out a flat
- Is my activity eligible for small business status
- Loss of small business status: exceeding the limit or violations
- Tax dispute
- Obtaining a Georgian tax residency certificate
- Whether I have become a Georgian tax resident
Compensation for harm
- Claim against the at-fault driver’s liability insurer
- Bodily injury: what can be claimed and how to calculate it
- Road accident and compensation for damage
- CASCO: insurer refused or is delaying the repair payment
- Recovering damages from the at-fault driver beyond insurance
- Bitten by a dog that has an owner
- Flooded by the neighbours upstairs: recording and recovering damage
- Accident involving a foreign-registered car: compulsory insurance
- Moral damages in Georgia: when compensation is available and how much
- Car damaged by a pothole, open manhole or fallen tree on the road
- Bitten by a stray dog: is the city hall liable