Disputing a Dominican Customs Assessment: Deadlines and Appeals Under Customs Law 168-21 An importer clears a container, pays the declared duties, and months later receives a reassessment from Dominican Customs (DGA) claiming a different tariff classification and a much larger bill. The claim is not necessarily final. Dominican law gives importers a structured, deadline-driven path […]
The Law That Keeps a Dominican Company from Closing Over a Bad Year: Corporate Restructuring in the DR A hotel chain ends the season with payroll in arrears and suppliers unpaid. The instinct is to close. But since 2015, Dominican law has offered an alternative that many companies, and their lawyers, still do not know […]
The Queue Is the Contract: Registering a Conventional Mortgage in the Dominican Republic Strip away the paperwork and a mortgage is a claim to a place in line. The conventional mortgage, granted by contract over registered property, entitles its holder, if the debt goes unpaid, to pursue the property and collect from its price with […]
Paying With the Property Itself: The Dation in Payment at the Dominican Title Registry Every debt is a promise of money, but not every debtor ends up with money. When the cash is gone and the creditor is real, Dominican practice reaches for one of the oldest instruments of honorable exit: the dación en pago, […]
Customs Reviewed Your Import Declaration in the DR Years Later: How the Appeal Works An importing company declares, pays its duties, and considers the matter closed. Months, or even two years, later, it receives a notice: the General Directorate of Customs (Dirección General de Aduanas, DGA) reviewed the file and found a discrepancy. The initial […]
What to Do When a Client in the Dominican Republic Stops Paying: The Action for Collection of a Sum of Money A supplier invoices two million pesos to a distributor in Santo Domingo. Sixty days pass. Then ninety. The phone stops ringing on the other end. It is at that moment, not before, that most […]
Buying the Loan, Not the Property: Registering an Assignment of Credit in the Dominican Republic There is a second market beneath the Dominican property market: the market for the debts secured by it. Banks sell loan portfolios, investors buy distressed credits at a discount, private lenders exit positions, and estates liquidate the mortgage credits a […]
The Long Road: The Ordinary Real Estate Foreclosure in the Dominican Republic Every legal system has a default, and in Dominican real estate execution the default is the ordinary foreclosure of the Civil Procedure Code: the full-dress procedure, inherited from the French tradition, through which a creditor armed with an enforceable title seizes, advertises and […]
Neutral Hands: The Judicial Sequestration of Disputed Dominican Property Some property disputes have a problem more urgent than who is right: who holds the asset while the question is decided. The co-heir occupying the estate’s best property and collecting its rents through years of partition litigation; the contested company premises run by one faction; the […]
The Provisional Note: How to Put the World on Notice Over Dominican Real Estate Property, Before It Is Too Late Litigation is slow; property moves fast. Between the day a claim over Dominican real estate arises and the day a court resolves it, the property can be sold, mortgaged or encumbered, and in a registration […]
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