Court orders involving real estate are commonplace in legal proceedings: asset seizures to secure debts, blocks on property registration records to prevent asset alienation, and the recording of pending lawsuits to provide public notice to third parties, among others. The process by which these orders reach the real estate registry office is about to change.
Starting in August 2026, all court and judicial divisions must have the Judicial Encumbrance System (Constrijud) operational; this platform is designed to transmit court orders regarding encumbrances and related measures to real estate registrars.
With the publication of Ruling No. 224/2026, the National Council of Justice (CNJ) mandated the creation and use of Constrijud, aiming for greater integration between real estate registry offices and the Judiciary.
The new system centralizes the entire processing of a court decision affecting a property within a single digital environment. Orders are registered electronically rather than being sent separately between the court and the registry office. To expedite the process, the interested party’s lawyer may register the order in the system and notify the issuing court. Even so, the judicial authority must validate the entered information before the order is forwarded to the registry office.
Constrijud offers several convenient features. One is the ability to pay registry fees electronically directly through the system. Another is the ability for the interested party to track—in real time—whether the registry office has flagged any pending issues or requirements to be met, and even resolve them directly without waiting for a new court order. On the registry office side, registrars will also need to monitor the system more frequently (theoretically, at intervals of no more than two hours), which tends to make the process faster and more transparent than before.
On the other hand, since the entire workflow now depends on prior validation by the Judiciary, the process could become more time-consuming. Previously, it was possible to initiate an electronic filing directly on the website of the National Operator of the Electronic Real Estate Registry System (ONR) to expedite the transmission of the order, upon payment of the applicable fees. Now, however—based on information provided by the National Council of Justice (CNJ)—even though a lawyer can register the order in the system, it only proceeds after validation by the court.
Although courts and judicial districts are required to implement the platform starting in August 2026, the system is expected to become fully operational gradually, depending on the technical capacity of each location. In the meantime, established systems such as *Penhora On-line* (Online Attachment) and *Malote Digital* (Digital Mailbag) will continue to operate normally for order types not yet available on the new platform. Courts have up to two years to fully integrate their own systems with the new model.
Our team will continue to closely monitor this transition and is available to clarify how these changes may impact our clients’ legal proceedings and business operations in practice.