Debt Collection in Portugal
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Debt Collection services against Portuguese debtors.
Do you need help with debt collection in Portugal? Do you have a problem with a non-paying Portuguese customer? Oddcoll can help you get paid. Quickly and easily. Read on to see how.
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Why use Oddcoll for debt collection in Portugal?
Direct access to the expertise of a local law firm in Portugal.
Full knowledge of local Portuguese laws and customs.
Completely risk-free debt collection. You pay nothing if we don’t succeed.
A more modern approach to international debt collection.
At Oddcoll, we have solved this problem with an international debt collection platform that brings together the best local debt collection agencies and law firms around the world.
Your case in Portugal will therefore be recovered by our local Portuguese law firm. And all you have to do is create an account with us and upload your invoice.
Our Law Firm in Portugal.
Portuguese debt collectors are the only ones familiar with the national laws that apply in Portugal, which gives you the best chances to get paid.
We are proud to be partnered with the local Law Firm Castilho International Legal Corporation.
Judicial debt collection in Portugal.
For cases where you need to proceed with legal debt collection against your Portuguese debtor. Then our law firm in Portugal can help you.
Where do you sue a Portuguese debtor?
You sue other natural persons in the court where the other party is domiciled. If there is no known domicile of the defendant, the lawsuit can instead be filed with the court of the plaintiff’s domicile.
If the other party is a company instead of a natural person, the company is sued in the court where it has its main address.
Portuguese is the language used in court proceedings. This means that documents in other languages need to be translated. It also means that an interpreter may be needed if a non-Portuguese speaker is involved in the proceedings.
Order for payment in Portugal.
What is an order for payment?
An order for payment is a legal process that is ideally suited to debt collection cases in Portugal. The process as such exists in some form in most countries and aims to make the process for less complicated disputes, simpler, cheaper and quicker.
What makes it particularly suitable for judicial debt collection in Portugal is that this process is applied to concrete claims for payment in cases that are not contested by the debtor.
If the debtor does not contest the claim submitted to the court by means of an order for payment, the court can issue an enforcement order (título executivo). This acts as legal proof that you do indeed have a claim against your Portuguese debtor. It can also be used in enforcement proceedings against the debtor.
What are the criteria for using the order for payment procedure?
The order for payment procedure in Portugal can be used in the following debt collection cases:
– The maximum amount of claims arising from contact is €15,000.
– There is no upper limit for claims arising from commercial transactions.
The use of this method is entirely optional and a creditor can instead use the normal court procedures available in Portugal for litigation. However, this is a better option for debt collection cases in Portugal.
The procedure:
In Portugal the only competent body for Payment Orders, is the National Payment Orders Office (Balcão Nacional de Injunções), in Porto.
As a creditor, you have to present the facts underlying your claim at the time of application, but no evidence needs to be presented at this stage.
The debtor has 15 days to decide on the claim.
If the claim is contested, no judgment (enforcement order) can be issued. The case will then be dealt with as an ordinary court case.
If no challenge is made within the timeframe, a judgment is issued.
The recovery of a Portuguese claim through an enforcement procedure.
An enforcement procedure is where an administrative body assists in forcing a debtor to fulfil an obligation established by a judgment.
In the case of debt collection from Portuguese customers, this means that the Portuguese authorities will help you to recover your claim.
The precondition for this is that there is a judgment proving that the debt actually exists. A so-called “título executive”. This must have been obtained by taking legal action against the debtor.
Normally, enforcement proceedings can have three different motives; the delivery of a specific object from the defendant to the plaintiff, the performance or nonperformance of a specific action. However, the most common motive (and the most relevant for debt collection cases in Portugal), is the payment of a specific sum of money.
In Portugal, the courts, together with enforcement agents, are responsible for enforcement cases.
Oddcoll can help you with debt collection in Portugal. Get started quickly and easily by creating an account. Do you have any questions about how debt collection in Portugal works or how to start your case? Do not hesitate to contact us today!
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