Practical library
Guides to finding and following court cases
Looking up the case is the door; what follows is the AI reading the file for you. Practical answers, official sources and each country's own terminology.
All guides
Every guide states its sources and review date. We publish only guides for countries served by this deployment.
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AI with approval
An AI agent that creates or changes things on its own leaves the firm liable for what nobody decided. Meet an AI that prepares and waits for you.
Reviewed on November 6, 2026Read the guide - Verified guide
AI without invented citations
Why general-purpose AI invents rulings and case numbers, what it cost lawyers who cited them, and how Custodio ties every fact and every answer to the passage in your document.
Reviewed on November 6, 2026Read the guide - Verified guide
AI for case files
Why a general chatbot doesn't know what the court published today or what your case file says, and how an AI that reads the matter answers instead.
Reviewed on November 6, 2026Read the guide - Verified guide
AI and confidentiality
What happens when a client's case file is pasted into a general-purpose chat, why it collides with professional secrecy, and what Custodio Legal puts in writing about that same text.
Reviewed on November 6, 2026Read the guide - Verified guide
Search by ID in TYBA
Search Colombian court cases by national ID in TYBA. Use the Citizen tab and learn why no results do not prove that no case exists.
Reviewed on October 1, 2026Read the guide - Verified guide
Procedural deadlines
How procedural deadlines are counted in Argentina under articles 155 to 158 of the CPCCN: business days, holidays, judicial recesses, the distance increase and when they expire, with examples and a free calculator.
Reviewed on September 22, 2026Read the guide - Verified guide
Procedural deadlines
How procedural deadlines are counted in Brazil under articles 219 to 231 of the CPC: business days, holidays, the 20 December to 20 January suspension, doubled terms and when they expire, with examples and a free calculator.
Reviewed on September 22, 2026Read the guide - Verified guide
Procedural deadlines
How procedural deadlines are counted in Costa Rica: business days, the Labour Code holidays, the Judiciary's collective closure and electronic notification, with examples and a free calculator.
Reviewed on September 22, 2026Read the guide - Verified guide
Procedural deadlines
How procedural deadlines are counted in the Dominican Republic: the plazo franco and the distance rule of article 1033, business or calendar days by field, holidays and examples, with a free calculator.
Reviewed on September 22, 2026Read the guide - Verified guide
Procedural deadlines
How procedural deadlines are counted in Uruguay under article 94 of the CGP: business or calendar days, holidays, judicial recesses and when they expire, with examples and a free calculator.
Reviewed on September 22, 2026Read the guide - Verified guide
Procedural terms
How court terms are counted in Colombia: business days under article 118 of the CGP, the holidays of Ley 51 de 1983 and the judicial recess, with examples and a free calculator.
Reviewed on September 22, 2026Read the guide - Verified guide
Alternatives and comparison
What Magnar, CaseTracking, RuleX, Veredicta, Monolegal and LegalSuite publish on their own sites, verified 16-Sep-2026, against Custodio Legal.
Reviewed on October 10, 2026Read the guide - Verified guide
Search hearings
How to search Uruguay's criminal hearing schedule: subject matter, venue and a date window under a month.
Reviewed on September 16, 2026Read the guide - Verified guide
Search by national ID
How to search your judicial cases in Ecuador by national ID in the eSATJE, with the three search criteria and their limits.
Reviewed on September 16, 2026Read the guide - Verified guide
Search by name
Search Colombian court cases by a person or company name in the CPNU. Learn how to narrow similar names, read matches and try another search criterion.
Reviewed on October 1, 2026Read the guide - Verified guide
Search on the e-SAJ
The three Brazilian courts that open their anonymous search on the e-SAJ, and how to read each case's page, in Portuguese.
Reviewed on October 14, 2026Read the guide - Verified guide
AI that doesn't train
What zero data retention means, since when it applies, what happens to your uploaded file, and where the promise stops — with the published clause.
Reviewed on September 24, 2026Read the guide - Verified guide
Iurix by jurisdiction
The four Argentine judicial portals that run iurix with a public search, and which one to ask based on the CUIJ code.
Reviewed on September 16, 2026Read the guide - Verified guide
The Portal de Acceso Digital
What the Dominican Judiciary’s Portal de Acceso Digital is, why it requires registration, and which public lookups sit outside it.
Reviewed on September 16, 2026Read the guide - Verified guide
The National Hearing Schedule
How to find a set hearing in the Dominican Republic by NUC, name, document or legal representative, with no account.
Reviewed on September 16, 2026Read the guide - Verified guide
Multiple countries
Custodio Legal operates in seven Latin American countries, each behind its own plugin — not the same generic promise repeated seven times.
Reviewed on October 14, 2026Read the guide - Verified guide
Software in Argentina
Which Argentine jurisdictions Custodio Legal watches, which it doesn't and why, and how it costs against local monitors.
Reviewed on September 16, 2026Read the guide - Verified guide
Software in Brazil
Which Brazilian courts Custodio Legal watches over e-SAJ, which it doesn't and why, and what the AI does with the CNJ number as its input.
Reviewed on October 14, 2026Read the guide - Verified guide
Software in Costa Rica
What Custodio Legal watches in Costa Rica's Gestión en Línea and La Gaceta, what it computes, and what the Costa Rica plugin doesn't cover yet.
Reviewed on September 16, 2026Read the guide - Verified guide
Software in Ecuador
What Custodio Legal watches in Ecuador's eSATJE, what it computes and what it still doesn't cover, before you pick a case-management tool.
Reviewed on September 16, 2026Read the guide - Verified guide
Software in the DR
What Custodio Legal watches in the Dominican Judiciary's public case search, what the country actually publishes, and what the DR plugin doesn't cover yet.
Reviewed on October 14, 2026Read the guide - Verified guide
Software in Uruguay
What Custodio Legal watches in Uruguay's Judiciary web services, what it covers, and what the Uruguay plugin doesn't cover yet.
Reviewed on September 16, 2026Read the guide - Verified guide
The token and the edicts
Why Costa Rica's Gestión en Línea lookup expires after ten minutes, and where judicial edicts are published today.
Reviewed on September 16, 2026Read the guide - Verified guide
Colombia filing-number lookup
Learn how to read the 23-digit filing number and look up a case in the Colombian Judiciary's official CPNU.
Reviewed on October 13, 2026Read the guide - Verified guide
The CUIJ
A practical guide to the Argentine CUIJ: its two written forms, what each group of digits means and how a case file is checked with no password.
Reviewed on September 16, 2026Read the guide - Verified guide
The CNJ number
A practical guide to the Brazilian unified case number: what each group of digits means and how a case is looked up on the court's portal, with no account.
Reviewed on September 16, 2026Read the guide - Verified guide
Looking up a case
The official eSATJE link and how to look up a court case in Ecuador by case number, ID card (cédula) or name, step by step. Free, no account.
Reviewed on October 12, 2026Read the guide - Verified guide
Gestión en Línea
A practical guide to the public lookup of the Judiciary of Costa Rica: how the case number is read and what the status and the rulings return.
Reviewed on September 16, 2026Read the guide - Verified guide
Case file lookup
Direct link to the Judiciary of Uruguay's case file lookup and how to search by IUE, step by step. The portal does not search by name.
Reviewed on October 12, 2026Read the guide - Verified guide
Case lookup by NUC
A practical guide to the Dominican judiciary's public case search: what the NUC is, how to read it and what each proceeding of a case file returns.
Reviewed on September 16, 2026Read the guide - Verified guide
What watching costs
The arithmetic for 30, 60 and 100 case numbers across the Colombian court-docket monitors that publish a price, with a source and a date per figure.
Reviewed on September 14, 2026Read the guide - Verified guide
Choosing software
Eight criteria for choosing judicial case management software as a solo lawyer in Colombia: judicial monitoring, deadlines, security and published pricing.
Reviewed on September 14, 2026Read the guide