Brazilian judges curb abusive real‑estate contracts and discipline lawyer

In Santa Catarina, Judge Elaine Veloso Marraschi voided a private sale contract that a lawyer had allegedly forced an illiterate elderly couple to sign, ruling the agreement null for lack of form, simulation and ethical breach. She ordered the lawyer to pay R$15,000 in moral damages to the heirs and referred the case to the state Bar Association for disciplinary action.

In Goiás, Judge Karine Unes Spinelli granted an urgent injunction for a pair of buyers who sought to terminate a R$2.4 million lot purchase, citing abusive clauses and compounded‑interest calculations under the Price table. She suspended all pending and future payments, barred the developer from registering the buyers in credit‑negative databases, and halted any fiduciary consolidation of the property.