by admin | Sep 7, 2026 | Litigation
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...
by admin | Sep 1, 2026 | Litigation
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...
by admin | Aug 25, 2026 | Litigation
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...
by admin | Aug 17, 2026 | Litigation
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...
by admin | Oct 29, 2025 | Litigation
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...
by admin | Nov 8, 2024 | Litigation
Litigation is, quite simply, the process of resolving conflicts or disputes through the courts. Imagine two people who disagree about something important: a contract that wasn’t honored, a dispute over a piece of land, or a divorce. If they can’t resolve...
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