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
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The people behind every case

Attorneys and notaries admitted to the Costa Rican Bar Association (Colegio de Abogados y Abogadas de Costa Rica), supported by a team committed to serving every client.

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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 (15 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
  • Probate proceedings before a notary (sucesorio notarial)Costa Rican Bar Association · 2023
  • Security interests in movable property (garantías mobiliarias)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
  • 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
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María del Milagro Guzmán Chaves

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

Costa Rican Bar Association membership No. 19529

Attorney at law and notary public, partner of the firm.

Notarial services

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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