Certified ministerial officers · Dominican Republic
Official service of judicial process
throughout the national territory
Court bailiffs, ordinary and of the bench. Citations, summonses, attachments and extrajudicial acts with verifiable proof of service.
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Ministerial services
Acts performed pursuant to the Code of Civil Procedure and Law 821
Citations and summonses
Case-initiating acts with faithful delivery to the addressee and return of the original with proof of service.
Attachments and executions
Conservatory, executory and real property attachments with formal minutes of proceedings.
International service
Service of foreign judicial documents pursuant to the Hague Service Convention, in force for the Republic since October 1, 2024.
Hague Convention guide →Extrajudicial acts
Demands for payment, notices of default and evidentiary attestations at the request of a party.
Hague Service Convention
The Dominican Republic is a Contracting State to the 1965 Hague Service Convention. Certified mail is no longer a valid channel; service is effected by act of alguacil, through the Central Authority or directly under Article 10. Our guide collects the country fact sheet, the declarations, the open and closed channels, and the documentation checklist for counsel in Puerto Rico, the United States and Europe.
Featured publication
Open-access scholarship on service of process in the Dominican Republic
Treatise · Legal treatise series · 2026
El Emplazamiento en la República Dominicana
C. Constantin Poindexter Salcedo, MA, JD · VSP Consultores Legales, S.A. · 51 pages · Spanish
The constitutional foundations, Articles 59 to 74 of the Code of Civil Procedure, the nullity regime, the bailiff's statute, the special regimes and the Hague Service Convention, in one volume for attorneys, judges, bailiffs and scholars.
Need a document served in the Dominican Republic?
Write to Emplazamientos@AlguacilRD.com or call (809) 000-0000.