Setting up your life in Spain: work, home and the kids' school
Now you build daily life: a job or registering as self-employed (autónomo), a stable home and enrolling the children in school — the core moves to settle in.
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Build your daily life
Contracts, payslips and your rights as a worker in Spain.
Open guide → Register as self-employed (autónomo)Register as self-employed, understand the monthly Social Security contribution (cuota) and the flat-rate starter discount (tarifa plana).
Open guide → School for the kidsEnrolling children: admission, municipal registration (padrón), scoring scale (baremo) points and documents.
Open guide → Work contract typesCDI vs CDD, part-time, fijo discontinuo — your rights from day one.
Open guide → Exchange your licenceCanjear or get a Spanish driving licence to keep moving.
Open guide → Social Security contributionsWho pays, how much, and what rights (unemployment, sick pay, pension) each cotización builds.
Open guide →Explore the other hubs
Informational guide. Rules and deadlines change — check your case with NAVI.
This guide is general information about Spanish law, not a legal opinion on your case. Rules change and outcomes depend on your own facts and documents — check your situation before you act on it.
Need everyday protection, not just a one-off check?
Included: checks of Spanish documents, letters, requests and contracts before signing, Action Plans, consultation and sending your claims by burofax.