Family and Children’s Law
Are you facing family law or children’s issues?
At GSM Law Chambers, our Hotline is equipped to answer many tough family and children’s questions. If you seek legal advice regarding any of the following issues and qualify for services, you may be able to get free legal advice on our Hotline:
* Adoption
* Foster care
* Custody
* Divorce
* Education Access
* Guardianship
* Limited Conservatorship of a disabled adult
* Paternity
* Child or Spousal Support, and more..
Health Law
Health Law At GSM Law Chambers we assists health consumers, including low-income, underrepresented consumers, in accessing the health care system in Zimbabwe. As the only program of its kind in Harare, we provide legal advocacy and expertise to help health care consumers obtain the coverage and benefits they need. Without assistance from health care advocates, many consumers continue to be denied essential health care and face barriers to healthcare services, even when such care is guaranteed under the law. To learn more about Health Consumer Alliance, visit www.gsmlaw.co.zw.
GSM Law Chambers engages in advocacy to increase health consumers’ access to health care and to navigate the health care system:
Facilitate consumers’ understanding of rights and responsibilities under private insurance, the Affordable Care & any Medical Care there is in the country and abroad.
We therefore assist with medical bill and health care access issues.
* Represent consumers in health plan grievance processes and at administrative hearings.
* Provide educational materials and outreach presentation to community-based agencies and health consumers.
* Refer cases to other appropriate agencies.
GSM Law Chambers assists in resolving issues below mentioned:
* Individual advocacy services such as conducting impartial, systematic analysis and investigation of enrollee complaints
* Issues of Disenrollment
* Assistance with filing appeals and complaints
* Empower enrollees with appropriate information and resources
* Placement in clinics
* Appointments, or other services lies at the discretion of GSM Law Chambers staff.
Services are offered based on a variety of factors, including need, availability, and evaluation of each legal matter’s independent facts.
Protection From Abuse
* Child Abuse
* Elder Abuse
* Domestic Violence
* Harassment
* Limited Conservatorship of a disabled adult, restraining orders, and more.
GSM Law Chambers also offers the following services and resources in the area of protection from abuse:
* Domestic Violence Prevention Program
* CalWorks Domestic Violence appointment
* Limited Conservatorship Callback appointment
* Harare Seniors Legal Advocacy Program Callback
* Office appointments
* Referrals to partnering agencies
* Referrals to self-help services
* Community help agencies database
**Placement in clinics, appointments, or other services lies at the discretion of GSM Law Chambers staff. Services are offered based on a variety of factors, including need, availability, and evaluation of each legal matter’s independent facts.
Other Services
Insolvency Law
According to Insolvency Law a company that has illiquid assets and thus a positive balance sheet, but is unable to pay the short term debts is thus in a cash flow insolvency state. When a company’s assets fall into a negative state where the liabilities become more than the assets, the company can still have enough cash flow for day to day running, but not to pay off the long term debt.
One should understand that bankruptcy is not the same as insolvency. According to the law, bankruptcy occurs when a court determines that the insolvent state cannot be resolved without legal actions and thus declares a company bankrupt.
With the numerous insolvencies that have occurred over the past few years, the focus has shifted from liquidation of assets to assistance of businesses in financial trouble. The reason is simple. Not only the business, but its suppliers, clients, shareholders, and employees are all affected. To minimize the effect is better and as such debt restructuring steps can be taken to help rehabilitate a company. GSM Law Chambers can assist you with all your Insolvency Law needs.
Property Law
• Advising on and drafting of commercial and residential leases
• Commercial and residential developments, including township establishment and sectional title developments.
• Conventional transfers of properties, as well as transfers as a result of or in terms of liquidations, auctions, court orders, foreclosures, divorces, donations and deceased and insolvent estates.
• Financial planning and structuring of share block and time share schemes.
• Financial structuring of property transactions
• Miscellaneous applications, consents and endorsements required in the conveyancing process.
• Negotiating and drafting agreements relating to the sale of properties, both residential and commercial.
• Project and commercial property development finance
• Property finance
• Registration and cancellation of all types of bonds, including mortgage, surety, collateral and notarial bonds.
• Registration of all types of servitudes; Subdivision and consolidation properties.
Commercial Practice
We assist clients with all commercial and corporate aspects of their business. Commercial transactions are the heartbeat of the firm and the majority of our lawyers are primarily involved in assisting clients with a wide variety of commercial transactions. Our services are not limited to the draft and settlement of a composite range of commercial contracts but also include advising on the tax and other implications of commercial transactions, conducting due diligence investigations, advising on the implication of Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment and assisting with the implementation of commercial transactions.
Especially Black Economic Empowerment transactions, which have been the main catalyst for a number of merger and acquisitions activities within Zimbabwe, have played a major role in transactions in which we as a firm are involved. We are further involved in a number of private equity transactions dealing mostly with the BEE side of the transaction.
Closely connected to our success in mergers and acquisitions and Black Economic Empowerment activity has been our success in banking and finance transactions related to BEE transactions. As a result of our ability to conclude complex BEE transactions, we represent most of the banks in Zimbabwe in BEE transactions on a regular basis.
