Ciudad Quesada, San Carlos, Costa Rica · Barrio San Martín (Gamonales), across from the EBAIS (public health clinic) Phone +506 2460-7226 WhatsApp +506 8394-0706

Our team

Attorneys admitted to the Costa Rican Bar Association (Colegio de Abogados y Abogadas de Costa Rica). We serve clients in Spanish and in English.

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Dowglas Dayán Murillo Murillo

Attorney at Law and Notary Public (Civil-Law Notary) · Partner

Costa Rican Bar Association membership No.
7816
Languages
Spanish · English

Attorney admitted to the Costa Rican Bar Association (Colegio de Abogados y Abogadas de Costa Rica) since November 26, 1996, and a notary public since 1997. Before earning his law degree, he worked for four years as a legal assistant at a San José law firm specializing in banking and commercial law, where he built a solid practical foundation. In 1999 he opened his office in Ciudad Quesada, where he handles debt collection, notarial matters, public procurement, and civil, commercial, criminal and contentious-administrative litigation. He holds specializations in Notarial and Registry Law and in Public Procurement.

Debt collectionNotarial servicesPublic procurementCriminal lawCivil and commercial law

Education

  • Licenciatura en Derecho (Licentiate Degree in Law)University of Costa Rica
  • Notary Public (civil-law notary) qualificationUniversity of Costa Rica · 1997
  • Specialization in Notarial and Registry LawUniversidad de San José · 2015
  • Specialist in Public Procurement (117-instructional-hour program)Universidad Fundepos · 2026
Continuing legal education (24 courses)
  • Oral advocacy in debt-collection proceedingsUNEBAN · INEPÓS · 2026
  • Alternative dispute resolution in debt-collection mattersUNEBAN · INEPÓS · 2026
  • The Judicial Notifications Act, mortgage and pledge foreclosure, and the Civil Procedure CodeUNEBAN · INEPÓS · 2026
  • Debt collection: foreclosure proceedings, payment-order (monitorio) proceedings and oral hearingsUNEBAN · INEPÓS · 2026
  • Case-law workshop on debt-collection litigationCosta Rican Bar Association · 2024
  • Case-law workshop on evictions and possessory actions (interdictos)Costa Rican Bar Association · 2024
  • Civil Procedure, Volume 3Costa Rican Bar Association · 2024
  • Commercial contracts and notarial considerationsUniversidad Fundepos · 2024
  • Case-law workshop on probate proceedingsCosta Rican Bar Association · Ibero-American Federation of Lawyers · 2024
  • Notarial law: current issues in notarial practice and the mandatory use of the Digital Window (Ventanilla Digital)Universidad Fundepos · ID Legal · 2024
  • Probate proceedings before a notary (sucesorio notarial)Costa Rican Bar Association · 2023
  • Security interests in movable property (garantías mobiliarias)Costa Rican Bar Association · 2023
  • Notarial Roundtables 2023Costa Rican Institute of Notarial Law · Costa Rican Bar Association · 2023
  • More efficient payment-order (monitorio) proceedingsCartularium · 2022
  • Update on debt-collection proceedingsCosta Rican Bar Association · 2022
  • Debt-collection litigationCosta Rican Bar Association, San Carlos chapter · 2022
  • 31st Notarial Law ConferenceCosta Rican Institute of Notarial Law · National Notarial Council (Consejo Superior Notarial) · Costa Rican Bar Association · 2022
  • Notarial due care in real security interests (garantías reales)Cartularium · 2022
  • Notarial and Registry Law, Workshop III: digital platform, registry objections (ocurso), priority reservations, tax on legal entities, transfers and liquidation of companiesID Legal · Costa Rican Bar Association · Costa Rican Institute of Notarial Law · 2022
  • Notarial and Registry Law, Workshop II: easements, security interests in movable property, wills and inheritance, notarial liability and family homestead (habitación familiar)ID Legal · Costa Rican Bar Association · Costa Rican Institute of Notarial Law · 2022
  • Notarial and Registry Law workshopID Legal · Costa Rican Bar Association · Costa Rican Institute of Notarial Law · 2021
  • Applying the Debt Collection Act in light of the new Civil Procedure CodeINEPÓS · Costa Rican Bar Association · 2019
  • Payment-order (monitorio) proceedings under the new Civil Procedure CodeCosta Rican Bar Association · 2018
  • First Registry Law CongressCosta Rican Bar Association · National Registry · 2018
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María del Milagro Guzmán Chaves

Attorney at Law · Partner

Costa Rican Bar Association membership No.
19529
Languages
Spanish · English

Attorney at law and a partner of the firm. For more than ten years she has been a specialist in employment law recognized by the Costa Rican Bar Association, and she also has more than a decade of experience in debt collection litigation. At the firm she handles employment matters for both employees and employers, and debt collection proceedings.

Employment lawDebt collection

Education

  • Specialist in Employment LawCosta Rican Bar Association

Support staff

Dayana Murillo Guzmán

Law student · Office support

Languages: Spanish · English

Daniela Murillo Morera

Law student · Administrative assistant

Languages: Spanish · English

About the title “notary public” in Costa Rica. Costa Rica follows the civil-law (Latin) notarial system. A Costa Rican notary public is an attorney who holds an additional notarial qualification and is authorized by the State to vest documents with public faith (fe pública): the notary drafts, authorizes and keeps the official record of public deeds, which have full evidentiary value and are filed with the National Registry. This differs from a notary public in the United States, who is generally not an attorney and whose role is limited mainly to witnessing signatures and administering oaths.

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