Questions about hiring a lawyer in Pokhara

At Mustang Chowk, Pokhara-7, Kaski, Gandaki Province, Nepal — central Pokhara, close to the courts and government offices most matters involve. Phone and WhatsApp: +977 9856032228. Directions are on the contact page.

Advocate Gita Acharya, the firm's founder, registered with the Nepal Bar Council under number 9058, with over 20 years of practice in Pokhara. She takes consultations personally and appears before Kaski District Court, High Court Pokhara and the Supreme Court of Nepal.

Sunday to Thursday 10:00–17:00 and Friday 10:00–15:00; the office is closed on Saturday. Because court hearings occupy part of most working days, call or WhatsApp +977 9856032228 first so the advocate is in chambers when you arrive. Urgent matters — an arrest, a bail hearing, an imminent land transfer — are dealt with as they arise.

Kaski District Court hears first-instance civil and criminal cases from Pokhara and the rest of Kaski district. Appeals, writ petitions and challenges to bail or custody decisions go to High Court Pokhara, which serves all eleven districts of Gandaki Province. Final appeals go to the Supreme Court of Nepal in Kathmandu.

Yes. With an authorised power of attorney (अधिकृत वारेसनामा) executed and attested at the Nepali embassy or consulate in your country, we can file or defend a case, appear at hearings, register a land transfer, or apply to freeze a plot at risk. Clients instruct us this way from the Gulf, Malaysia, Korea, Japan, Australia, Europe and North America, with updates by WhatsApp.

It depends on the type of case and whether it is contested. Uncontested administrative work — a registration, a transfer where all parties cooperate — is a matter of days or weeks. A mutual-consent divorce is measured in court appearances rather than months. Contested litigation over land, partition or a criminal charge is realistically measured in months, sometimes longer, depending on evidence and the court's calendar. We give you a range based on your documents rather than a promise.

Yes. Everything you tell your advocate is confidential and protected by professional duty. Nothing is filed and no family member is contacted without your instruction — which matters in divorce, domestic violence and partition matters, where the other side is usually a relative.

Your citizenship certificate; any court, police or government notice you have received; land ownership certificate (लालपुर्जा) and tax receipt for property matters; marriage, birth and relationship certificates for family matters; agreements, receipts, cheques and bank records for money disputes; and a short written timeline of what happened in date order. Come even if something is missing — deadlines do not wait for paperwork.

Yes. Consultations are held in Nepali, English or Hindi, and documents for use abroad — for immigration authorities, foreign courts or overseas lawyers — are prepared in English.

No. No advocate in Nepal can guarantee a judgement, and anyone who does — or who suggests they have influence over a judge — is a risk to you and to your case. What a competent advocate can give you is an honest assessment of the strength of your evidence, the realistic range of outcomes, and what each stage will cost.

Yes — matters from Tanahun, Syangja, Parbat, Baglung, Myagdi, Gorkha, Lamjung, Nawalpur, Manang and Mustang, and appeals at High Court Pokhara for the whole of Gandaki Province. Many of these instructions come from families now living in Pokhara or abroad whose property remains in their home district.

Yes — Advocate Gita Acharya is a woman advocate, and she personally takes divorce, maintenance, custody, domestic violence and women's property rights consultations. Clients who prefer to explain a marital or domestic violence situation to a woman lawyer can ask for her directly.