Guide · Costa Rica 2026
Legal software for lawyers in Costa Rica in 2026
What Custodio Legal checks in Costa Rica's Judiciary, what it finds in La Gaceta, and what is still out of scope.
Custodio Legal operates in seven countries today, each behind its own plugin — what a plugin declares it supports is the only thing the platform promises there. Within the product, Costa Rica is the country with the most active capabilities: this page states which ones, with its source, and which it still doesn't have.
What Custodio watches in Costa Rica
- Gestión en Línea, every day. Custodio checks the registered case with the system's own public token and compares it against the previous check.
- The Boletín Judicial, inside La Gaceta. Custodio downloads the daily edition — a PDF up to 10 MB — and isolates the notices that name a case you're already watching.
- The number format. Before saving a case, Custodio validates the
AA-NNNNNN-NNNN-MMform against real judicial offices. - Costa Rica's calendar. The twelve holidays of article 148 of the Labour Code, plus the collective closure the Judiciary sets each year.
- Eighteen procedural terms, cross-checked against the national legislation system, under legal review.
- Resolved legal citations. A curated table of twenty-one SINALEVI records that Custodio recognizes and links.
- The Ley N.° 8968 deadline. Five business days for the five rights of access, rectification, cancellation, opposition and portability.
- The Colegio de Abogados y Abogadas roll, as an informative badge.
What is still out of scope
- A live party-name search. The party lookup only reaches the Archivo Judicial — already-filed cases — not a case still in progress.
- A distance increase. No Costa Rican rule adds days for distance; claiming otherwise would invent a rule that doesn't exist.
- A signed-off deadline catalogue. The eighteen terms exist and are cross-checked against the law, but still await a Costa Rican lawyer's review before being treated as final.
How to try it before deciding
- Create the free account, no card, and add a real case with its full number.
- Wait for the first automatic check and see whether it brought back anything from the case's history, not only what happens from now on.
- Check whether a Boletín Judicial notice showed up for that same case.
- Compare the published price against how many open cases you carry today: the free plan includes 15 open matters.
Frequently asked questions about legal software in Costa Rica
Which official system does Custodio watch in Costa Rica?
The Judiciary's Sistema de Gestión en Línea, by case number. Custodio also downloads La Gaceta's daily edition and isolates the Boletín Judicial notices that name a case you're watching.
Is the party-name search in Costa Rica live?
No. The name search runs against the Archivo Judicial, a historical archive of already-filed cases, not a case still in progress. For a specific case's current status, the way in is its number.
Does Custodio show whether I'm in good standing as a lawyer in Costa Rica?
Yes. Custodio reads the public roll of the Colegio de Abogados y Abogadas de Costa Rica and shows it as an informative badge — it's not a gate and doesn't condition sign-up on the platform.
Ready to stop checking Gestión en Línea by hand?
Create your free account, add your first case with its number, and see what the system finds. No card.