Employment
Dismissals, severance calculated short, benefits never paid, workplace injury claims and reinstatement. Employees and employers alike.
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ALL OF COSTA RICA · OFFICE IN GOLFITO · 32 YEARS IN PRACTICE
Fifteen years on the bench. Seventeen at the bar.
Geovanny Montero Chacón sat as a judge in eight areas of Costa Rican law before going into private practice as an attorney and notary public. He now litigates nationwide, with the judgment of someone who decided cases like yours from the bench.
Office in Golfito, across from Banco Nacional · cases anywhere in Costa Rica
32 yearsin continuous practice
15 yearson the bench in Costa Rican courts
8 areas of lawhe heard as a judge
Bar no. 6506Costa Rican Bar Association
01BACKGROUND
Fifteen years deciding cases like yours, across eight areas of law
A judge reads hundreds of files and sees exactly where they fall apart: the evidence offered too late, the deadline left to run, the argument that convinces no one. Years of practice alone do not teach that. It goes into every matter this firm takes on.
AREA 01Employment
AREA 02Civil
AREA 03Family
AREA 04Juvenile justice
AREA 05Traffic
AREA 06Petty offenses
AREA 07Agrarian
AREA 08Administrative law
After the bench came seventeen years in private practice as an attorney and notary public. The firm litigates throughout Costa Rica and handles filings before public institutions, out of its office in Golfito. Thirty-two years in all, with the same attorney on your matter from start to finish.
02PRACTICE
What the firm handles
Every matter is handled personally, with no intermediaries, in courts anywhere in the country. If yours is not on the list, ask anyway: the first conversation is about whether you have a case at all.
Civil
Debt collection, breach of contract, damages, probate and property disputes.
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Child support, divorce, custody, visitation, paternity and the division of marital property.
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Protective orders and the follow-up they need, and defense for anyone facing a complaint. Handled discreetly, without putting you through more than the case requires.
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Boundary disputes, possession, adverse possession, farm leases and land conflicts. An area he also presided over as a judge.
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When the one getting it wrong is a public body: municipalities, state agencies, denied permits, administrative decisions that harm a person, a business or an association.
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Collisions, fault determination, challenging citations and recovering vehicle damages.
Ask about a traffic matterMisdemeanors and petty offenses
Minor offenses, slander, libel, disorderly conduct and similar charges.
Ask about a minor offense03FILINGS
Filings before public institutions
A good share of this work happens at a counter rather than in a courtroom: a municipality, the immigration service, the Civil Registry, the social security fund. One requirement filed wrong costs months, and knowing how these files move from the inside changes the outcome.
Municipalities and the coastal zone (ZMT)
- Use permits in the maritime-terrestrial zone
- Maritime-terrestrial zone concessions
- Ordinary appeals against municipal decisions
- Extraordinary petitions for review (recurso extraordinario de revisión)
- Property tax exemption applications
- Time-barred municipal service charges
- and other filings before the municipality
Immigration and Civil Registry
- Residency applications in every category
- Naturalization
- Civil Registry petitions (ocursos)
- Corrections to birth, marriage and civil status records
- and other immigration and Civil Registry filings
Social security (CCSS)
- Survivor's (widow or widower) pension claims
- Disability pension claims
- Appeals against CCSS rulings
- Disputed payroll assessments (planillas adicionales)
- and other claims before the CCSS
STRAIGHT ANSWERS
You are told plainly whether your case holds up.
And you are not billed for filings that lead nowhere.
04NOTARY
Notarial work: documents no one argues about later
Most of the disputes that end up in court began with a badly drafted document: a transfer signed without checking the registry, a power of attorney worded loosely, a company set up without deciding who would actually run it.
- Real estate purchases and transfers
- Vehicle transfers
- Mortgages and releases
- Powers of attorney: special, general and unlimited (poder generalísimo)
- Company formation and amendments
- Wills
- Signature authentications
- Notarial certificates and protocolizations
- and other acts within a Costa Rican notary's authority
Checked before you sign
Every matter starts with a registry search on the property and on the parties. If something is off in the registry, you hear about it before you sign, not after.
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05HOW IT WORKS
From your first message to a clear plan
Three steps, with no runaround and no promises that cannot be kept.
What the consultation costs
A consultation costs ₡20,000. If it leads to a case the firm takes on, there is no charge for it.
FIRST
You explain what happened
By WhatsApp, by phone or at the office, with whatever documents you have on hand, even if they are incomplete.
SECOND
You hear whether you have a case
Straight: what can be achieved, what cannot, which deadlines are already running, and what evidence has to be gathered before anything is filed.
THIRD
The plan and the fee are set
Fees agreed up front, and the same attorney on the matter the whole way through.
06CLIENTS
What clients say after the fact
Three clients agreed to be quoted by name. Their words are translated from Spanish.
At the hardest moments he helped me make the right decisions. I cannot thank him enough for the advice and for the peace of mind he gave me then. I recommend him 100%.
He has been my trusted lawyer, and every piece of work he has done for me, in court and as a notary, has been excellent. He is a man of sound moral and spiritual principles. I recommend him without hesitation.
An excellent professional. He has served the Golfito Water Utility Association across several areas of law and his work has been excellent. He is honest and responsible with his clients.
07THE FIRM
Centro Jurídico Cristiano Montero
The office sits in Golfito, across from Banco Nacional de Costa Rica, and the work travels: to whichever court, municipality or agency is handling the matter. It is run by Geovanny Montero Chacón, attorney and notary public with thirty-two years in practice, fifteen of them on the bench and seventeen in private practice.
The name is not decoration: it sets how the work is done. That is where the judgment behind every matter comes from, and the rule that what was agreed on timing and fees is what stands.
Much of the firm's work has been with community water associations, on governance, administration and legal representation. Foreign clients are handled in English through the firm's assistant, most often on residency, naturalization and coastal-zone matters.
VERIFIABLE MEMBERSHIPS
- Golfito Water Utility Association
- Rural Water Utility Association of Villa Briceño, Río Claro de Golfito
- Kilómetro Veinte Water Utility Association
CENTRO JURÍDICO CRISTIANO MONTERO
08OFFICE
Where the office is and how to start
It starts when you tell us what happened, wherever you are. Message on WhatsApp or call the office directly.
- WHATSAPP+506 8811-4543
- OFFICE PHONE+506 2775-2108
- EMAILgmontero_ch@msn.com
- ADDRESSGolfito, Puntarenas, Costa Rica. Across from Banco Nacional de Costa Rica, building 4252.
Open in Google Maps - OFFICE HOURS9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Costa Rica time, GMT-6).
- HOW CONSULTATIONS WORKBy WhatsApp, by phone or in person at the office. The firm does not take video calls.
- COVERAGEAll of Costa Rica. The office is in Golfito and matters are handled at whichever court or institution holds the file.
- PAYMENTBank transfer, SINPE Móvil or deposit.
- LANGUAGESEnglish is handled through the firm's assistant, who takes messages and calls and relays them. Mr. Montero conducts his own consultations in Spanish. Esta página también está en español.
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