You came for citizenship. You discovered your divorce must be “recognised”.
It almost always starts like this: in the middle of a citizenship process — yours or your children’s — the Portuguese civil registry requires your marital status to be correct. If there was a divorce abroad, it must be valid here first. That step has a name: recognition of a foreign judgment. It is exactly — and only — what we do.
Citizenship requires registering the marriage at the consulate or the registry office.
Registering the marriage requires annotating the divorce.
Annotating the divorce requires recognising the foreign judgment.
Citizenship is not our product. It is the reason recognition exists in your life.
It crossed two continents every year. One day, it no longer needed to leave.
For centuries the white stork crossed the strait between Europe and Africa twice a year to survive. Today, thousands no longer migrate at all: they nested on the chimneys and poles of Portugal — and stayed. The country became home all year round.
That is what recognition does: what came from abroad becomes local — without ceasing to be what it was.
Fluxia Law does one thing, and does it to the end: making decisions issued abroad valid in Portugal — divorce, estate division, adoption, custody, unions.
It is a deliberate choice. A single service, travelled hundreds of times, means your case enters a known path — not a generalist desk that does a bit of everything.
Inside the same contractAnd whatever else the path requires — marriage transcription, certified translations, the citizenship of those who inherit the right — comes inside the same recognition contract, when it makes sense. Not as separate services: as parts of the same path.
Divorce
How it almost always begins: the children's citizenship, or a new marriage in Portugal.
Estate & inheritance
Assets crossing borders and generations — continuity, decided once, holding on both sides.
Adoption and filiation
A bond recognised abroad must appear in the Portuguese record to take effect here.
Other civil decisions
Foreign civil judgments in general — the assessment tells you whether your case fits.
Like the monarch butterfly that never makes the whole crossing alone, the right crosses generations. A parent settles one stretch; a child or grandchild completes the path.
Recognising the judgment today opens the door that those who come after will walk through — inherited citizenship, correct civil status, the family line in order on both sides.
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.
Portuguese 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.
No. The whole process is remote and documentary — no hearing, no testimony, no travel. You send the documents through the portal and follow every movement there.
It varies with the competent Court of Appeal and the complexity of the case. We promise no magic timeline: the real state of the case stays visible in the portal, movement by movement.
As a rule, the foreign judgment and the certificate of finality, apostilled (Hague Convention) and, where required, translated. The assessment lists exactly what your specific case needs.
It is often the missing step: the Portuguese civil record must show the correct marital status before citizenship. See the Citizenship page to understand why recognition comes first.
Yes, from any country, with certified translation where required. Review and confirmation by the Court of Appeal applies to foreign civil judgments in general.
Inside the portal, by card or transfer, always with a signed contract first. No blind transfers.