Guide · Dominican Republic 2026
Legal software for lawyers in the Dominican Republic in 2026
What Custodio Legal checks in the Dominican Judiciary, what the country actually publishes as a public notice, 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. The Dominican Republic has a quirk worth stating before you compare software: it publishes no edicts. What its Judiciary makes public is something else, and this page states exactly what.
What Custodio watches in the Dominican Republic
- The Consulta Pública de Casos, by NUC. Custodio checks the registered case and compares it against the previous check to flag only what's new.
- The Rol Nacional de Audiencias. This is the channel that does exist in the DR: the roll of scheduled hearings, with date, court and courtroom. Custodio checks it by the NUC of every case you watch.
- Three ways to search a party. Name, national ID number, and representative's name — the last one isn't offered by every country in the product.
- The Dominican calendar. The twelve holidays of Ley núm. 139-97, with its transfer rule.
- The distance increase. Article 1033 adds one day per 30 km; the DR is one of the few countries in the product where this figure actually applies.
- The Ley 172-13 deadline. Five business days for access, ten business days for rectification and cancellation — Custodio computes them against that same law.
What is still out of scope
- Edicts. They don't exist in the Dominican Republic as a separate channel: what exists is the Rol Nacional de Audiencias, already covered above.
- Legal citations resolved to text. The citation map for Dominican norms hasn't been built yet.
- A verified bar registry. The Dominican Bar Association doesn't publish a roll Custodio can read today.
How to try it before deciding
- Create the free account, no card, and add a real case with its full NUC.
- 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 scheduled hearing shows up in the Rol Nacional de Audiencias 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 the Dominican Republic
Which official search does Custodio watch in the Dominican Republic?
The Consulta Pública de Casos, by the case's NUC. Custodio also checks the Rol Nacional de Audiencias, a separate channel with the hearings scheduled.
Does the Dominican Republic publish judicial notices (edicts)?
No. The only thing the Dominican Judiciary publishes as a public notice is the Rol Nacional de Audiencias — the hearing roll — and that is exactly what Custodio watches; there is no edicts channel to monitor in the DR.
Does Custodio compute procedural deadlines in the Dominican Republic?
Yes. Dominican terms are computed by field — civil, criminal, labour, administrative, cassation and constitutional —, with the plazo franco, the one-day-per-30-km increase of article 1033 and the norm cited. Each deadline arrives as a proposal a person at the firm confirms: no Dominican lawyer has signed off the catalogue yet. The same computation is open, with no account, in the Dominican Republic deadline calculator.
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