The crossing takes generations. We prepare yours.
Foreign judgment recognition in Portugal. One service, done whole — so what you settled abroad holds here, and the right reaches those who come next.
The divorce is the past. Your children's citizenship is the future.
A divorce from years ago sits quietly filed away — until the day the next generation needs it settled here. That is how this process almost always begins.
The lineage
For children and grandchildren to have the path to citizenship open, the civil record in Portugal must be right. Recognition is that correction.
The new chapter
Divorce concluded in Brazil, a wedding planned in Portugal. Before the next chapter, the previous one must hold here.
The estate
A division of assets decided abroad only takes effect in Portugal once recognised. What belongs to the family stays in the family — on both sides of the ocean.
Foreign judgment recognition: divorce, property division, succession, adoption — the decision issued abroad, reviewed and confirmed by the Portuguese Court of Appeal, valid in Portugal. A documentary process, 100% remote.
And whatever else the path requires — marriage transcription, certified translations, the citizenship filings of those who inherit the right — is folded into the same engagement, when it makes sense. Not as separate services: as parts of the same path.
It came from China. It became the name of Portugal.
Portuguese ships carried it west — and across half the world, from Istanbul to Tehran, the word for “orange” is still a form of “Portugal”: portakal, burtuqal, portokali. No one asks where it came from anymore.
That is what recognition is: what crossed over comes to hold here — without ceasing to be what it was.
One service. Made to your measure.
We do a single thing — the recognition of your judgment. But if your case calls for more, we take it all into the same engagement: you don't end up piecing the process together across several lawyers.
Judgment recognition
The complete recognition of your judgment: case analysis, the court filing, docketing at the Court of Appeal and portal follow-up through to final judgment.
- Divorce, property division, succession or adoption
- 100% remote and documentary
- Contract, payment and documents inside the portal
- The real state of your case, no phone calls needed
Need more than the recognition? Add only what your path calls for — in any combination, within the same engagement:
Marriage transcription
Your marriage entered into the Portuguese civil registry — with or without translation, as your case requires.
Certified translations
The translations the Court and registries require, done and included — no hunting for a translator.
Administrative citizenship
Citizenship for those who inherit the right, handled inside the same process, when it makes sense.
Or hand over everything at once: the recognition and all it unlocks — transcription, translations and citizenship — handled end to end, in a single engagement. One international office takes care of the whole path; you don't stitch it together lawyer by lawyer.
Get your quoteNo list price: every case has its own. Send us the essentials through the form and we return the exact figure — with the path and the timeline alongside.
An international office, entirely inside the site.
Client portal
Every case has its private area: documents, contract and the real state of the process in one place.
Contract signed on the site
You read and accept the contract inside the portal, in writing, before any payment.
Everything 100% remote
Documents and the entire process online: from first contact to final judgment, with no mail, no notary and without coming to Portugal.
A comprehensive international office
Recognition, transcription, translation and citizenship under one roof — no stitching it together lawyer by lawyer.
Four steps, all inside this site
No meetings, no notary queues, no trip to Portugal. You send the documents; the case moves — and you watch it move.
Assessment
Send the essentials through the form. We reply with the path, the timeline and the fee.
Contract
Received and accepted inside the portal — everything in writing before any payment.
Payment
Made on this site, with a receipt. No blind transfers.
Follow-up
Documents uploaded in the portal and the real state of the case, from filing to final judgment.
Dra. Nina Dourado
A lawyer trained in Portugal and Brazil, dedicated to the recognition and review of foreign judgments. I know both sides of the border — the system that issued your decision and the one that must confirm it.
The process runs remotely and transparently: every stage recorded in the portal, every movement visible. Each case is handled with the clarity of someone who explains, not someone who complicates.
Assess my caseStart with the stretch that is yours.
Tell us the essentials: which decision you hold and in which country it was issued. We reply with the path, the timeline and the fee — and with candor about what is (or isn't) necessary.