Buying Czech property has a gap in it that catches foreign buyers out. You sign the contract. You pay. And then you wait — because ownership does not pass on signature or on payment, but on registration in the Land Register (katastr nemovitostí), and that takes weeks. The question nobody wants to face is the […]

Medical treatment abroad is stressful even when it goes well. When it does not — a complication nobody warned you about, a procedure that made things worse, a discharge that came too early — you are left trying to work out what happened in a language you may not read, under a system whose rules […]

The goods were delivered. The invoice fell due months ago. The emails have gone from polite to formal to unanswered, and you are now weighing whether a Czech debt is worth chasing from abroad at all. It usually is. What matters is picking the right route at the start, because the wrong one costs a […]

A car is the most expensive thing most people buy after their home, and the one where a defect is hardest to prove. The dealer says it is normal wear. The garage “fixes” the same fault three times and it comes back. On an imported car, the mileage turns out to be wrong six months […]

If you own a flat in Prague, a cottage in Bohemia or a share in a Czech company, one question decides almost everything about what happens to it when you die: which country’s law governs your estate. Most foreign owners assume it is the law of their nationality. Since 2015, that assumption is usually wrong. […]