Legal guides
Practical guides to Dutch law, arranged by area of law: from employment and corporate law to family law, immigration, criminal law and real estate. Written by the lawyers of Law & More in Eindhoven and Amsterdam.
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Copying general terms and conditions: the legal risks in the Netherlands
Copying another company’s general terms and conditions (algemene voorwaarden) is risky under Dutch law on three separate grounds: copyright, unlawful act and the validity of the terms themselves. The exception is short standard phrasing, which is too generic for copyright
A power purchase agreement is now the ordinary way for a company to buy renewable
- Reading time: 12 min
If you are buying a house in the Netherlands, the transfer must be executed by
- Reading time: 8 min
You can apply for Dutch nationality through naturalisation after five years of uninterrupted lawful residence
- Reading time: 8 min
Without a will, Dutch law gives the surviving spouse or registered partner all the assets
- Reading time: 9 min
The Dutch civic integration exam (inburgeringsexamen) is at level B1 if your integration requirement started
- Reading time: 8 min
If your rent is too high, your service charge statement looks wrong, or your landlord
- Reading time: 8 min
The highly skilled migrant scheme (kennismigrantenregeling) lets a Dutch employer hire a non-EU professional on
- Reading time: 14 min
A landlord in the Netherlands can only evict a tenant with a court judgment, enforced
- Reading time: 8 min
If the particulars for a Dutch home say it is op erfpacht, you are not
- Reading time: 11 min
A Dutch registered partnership (geregistreerd partnerschap) is close to marriage in almost every legal respect,
- Reading time: 7 min
When an employee of a Dutch employer works partly from home in another EU country,
- Reading time: 7 min
If you are a non-EU national and want to live in the Netherlands for more
- Reading time: 11 min
