Tools
Custodio Legal
Video tutorials in Spanish
These walkthroughs show the complete flow in the Spanish interface.
Read or build a filing number, and count business days — without opening any matter.
Before you start
- Be signed in to your practice. No special plan is required: what decides what you see here is your practice’s country.
Step by step
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Go to Tools from the menu.
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Choose what you want to do: Read a filing number, Build a filing number, or Business days.
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To read a filing number, paste it exactly as it appears on the order or notice and press Read it.
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To build one, pick from the official lists (department, city, court…) and fill in what you know: the system handles the order and the joining.
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To count business days, check the starting date —initially today— and the number of days, or use a shortcut (3, 5, 10 or 15 days). The event date is excluded: counting starts on the next business day.
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If the result has a date, press Put it in my agenda, select an open matter and describe what needs to happen. Save it.
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The date becomes a milestone, not a legal deadline. Verify it from the matter’s Timeline → Manage milestones. The agenda displays it when its date falls within the agenda’s window.
The milestone picker offers up to 50 open matters, not a search of every file. Reading or building a filing number only interprets its structure: it does not query the court portal or verify that the proceeding exists.
How you know it worked
You see the filing number’s segments, or the exact date with the days it skipped and the rule that declares each one. This count isn’t a legal deadline: it doesn’t say when a term starts running, it only counts days.
If something goes wrong
| What you see | What happened | What to do |
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| “We are still loading this catalogue” | That city or court’s catalogue hasn’t been seeded yet | Try again later |
| It asks for a year that’s missing | That year’s calendar isn’t loaded yet | Try another year, or reach out through support |
| It rejects your number of days | You asked for something outside the allowed range (1 to 260) | Ask for a number within that range |
Differences by country
Colombia builds a 23-digit filing number in eight segments — department, city, entity, specialty, and court; Ecuador builds one with three segments separated by dashes — province, canton and judicial unit together; then the year; and the sequential number last. The Dominican Republic builds a Número Único de Caso (NUC) with two segments — the year and the national sequential number — to which a procedural step adds a third. Costa Rica builds a case-file number with four segments — the year, the sequential number, the judicial office and the subject matter — and is registered without being offered yet. All four count business days, each with its own country’s calendar.