How Evidence Won a Guanacaste Traffic Case

How Evidence Won a Guanacaste Traffic Case

On November 14, 2023, near a gas station in Filadelfia de Carrillo, two vehicles collided. Nothing unusual for a public road in Guanacaste, until weeks later our client, a foreign resident of the area, learned that simply having been involved in the crash...
A Family Farm Dispute in Nicoya

A Family Farm Dispute in Nicoya

On a small farm in Nicoya, a group of siblings — all of them now older adults — had spent their entire lives growing corn, plantains, and fruit trees, raising cattle, and living in the four houses they had built on that same land decades earlier. None of them held a...
40 Years on the Land, Finally on the Title

40 Years on the Land, Finally on the Title

Five years ago, in Playas del Coco, a couple was living in the house they had built on family land. He is Costa Rican; she is American, married to him and settled in Guanacaste. The land had never, not for a single day, carried a registered title at the National...
Breach of Contract: Paid $25,000 for Nothing

Breach of Contract: Paid $25,000 for Nothing

In June 2021, a U.S. citizen signed a reciprocal purchase-option agreement with a seller in Guanacaste for a lot of roughly two thousand square meters, to be carved out of a larger property in Sardinal, Carrillo. The seller was acting as executor...
Contractor Fraud in Costa Rica

Contractor Fraud in Costa Rica

One of the phrases we hear most often from foreigners who have been defrauded in Costa Rica is: “why bother reporting it, nothing happens here.” That is exactly the belief that repeat offenders count on. This is the story of a case that proves otherwise. A...
Debt Collection Lawsuits in Costa Rica

Debt Collection Lawsuits in Costa Rica

In Costa Rica, a debt collection lawsuit — a cobro judicial — is the legal process a creditor (a bank, a lender, or a private party) uses to collect a debt through the courts when a payment hasn’t been made as agreed. It can stem from credit cards, personal...