From Auction to Ownership: Registering an Adjudication of Dominican Real Estate The gavel falls, the price is paid, and the winning bidder at a Dominican judicial auction walks out with a court decision declaring the property theirs. It is a powerful document, and, until registered, an incomplete victory. In the Dominican Torrens-style system, real rights […]
Updating a Mortgage Creditor’s Registration Certificate in the Dominican Republic: Why Lenders Should Not Hold Old Paper. When a mortgage or other secured right is recorded at the Dominican Title Registry, the creditor receives its own official evidence of the registration, today, a certification of registration of creditors. But the format and content of that […]
Law 544-14: The Rulebook for Cross-Border Legal Disputes in the Dominican Republic Before 2014, a foreign investor litigating a cross-border contract in Santo Domingo faced a patchwork: scattered Civil Code provisions, case law, and guesswork. Law 544-14 on Private International Law replaced that patchwork with a single, modern rulebook, one now regarded among the most […]
Going to File a Translated Document Before a Dominican Court? Demand a Certified Judicial Interpreter A foreign investor arrives to sign a contract in Santo Domingo with a translation done by a bilingual friend. The notary, or the court, rejects it. This is not capricious bureaucracy: in the Dominican Republic, certain documents and certain proceedings […]
On January 3th of 2017, The Judicial Branch Council (CPJ acronym in Spanish) of the Dominican Republic issued an Act which establishes the halls for the liquidation and restructuring courts for companies and individuals traders. The First Hall of the Civil and Commercial Chamber of First Instances of the National District and second Hall of […]
Dominican Customs Law established that the Dominican Customs Administration is responsible for preventing illegal tax acts and to apply administrative sanctions, collect tax debt, whether voluntarily or by exercising its powers of tax fiscal enforcement, being able in that aspect, to re- liquidate and collect duties and taxes that for any concept are owed to […]
On December 8 of 2014, the Judiciary Council (CPJ) of the Dominican Republic issued Resolution 13-2014, thereby appointing 115 new judicial interpreters in different languages, who may provide legal translation of documents as well as language interpretation services in different courts of the country, within the corresponding powers granted in their role as auxiliaries of […]
Data Protection in the Dominican Republic: What Law 172-13 Covers and the Reform Waiting in Congress Every business that holds customer data in the Dominican Republic operates under a statute written in 2013, largely with credit bureaus in mind. That gap between what companies actually do with data and what the law was built to […]
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