In the article by Raymundo Larrian Nesbitt dated 26/6/99 entitled "Comunidad de Propietarios: avoid problems with your neighbours in spain", it advises that "this legal procedure in spain works surprisingly eficiently" and there is a link to "legal procedure". This link takes you to an article on community fees not a description of the legal procedure. Also my experience of the legal procedure for the recovery of community fees is that it is far from "surprisingly efficient". I accept that this may be due to the inefficiency of the lawyers that we have employed.

Can you please provide me with details of the legal procedure that can be followed to get recovery of outstanding community fees? How long should it take to get a court order for the public sale of an apartment owned by a non-paying owner in a community?