• Costa Rica Visitor Alert: Beware of Public Pay Phone

    According to several sources, telecommunications companies in the United states continue to receive complaints from customers who make international phone calls from Costa Rican pay phones. Unhappy customers placed calls from Costa Rica and were charged up to $50 for a five-second international call. The country's main telephone service, the Instituto Costarricense de Electricity, (I.C.E.) [...]

  • Burning Question in Costa Rica; Is she cheating?

    As a private detective in Costa Rica, I get this type of inquiry often: "Hi, my name is Bill and I live in California. I have been coming to Costa Rica for the past 7 years and last year I met a woman there and we hit it off pretty good and I have been [...]

  • Treat Others as You Expect to be Treated

    Having an office in Costa Rica for a number of years and conducting hundreds of cases, investigating anything from fraud to finding birth parents, I have been successful because I treat people the way I expect to be treated. Thus, I thought it would be a good idea to share this with my readers. When [...]

  • Marriage Fraud and the Internet Dating Services

    Increasingly I am receiving request for background services on relationships that originated via the inter net. I can tell you from the onset, that such relationships usually have hidden agendas by one or both of the participants. Since my expertise is in the fraud field, marital fraud is one of the events that I am [...]

  • Cheating Spouse: Using a Private Investigator

    If you are in need of a private investigator for a personal matter, there are a few things to consider. For starters, if you are using a private investigator for the purposes of obtaining information on a cheating spouse for evidence in filing for a divorce, most areas now allow for a no-fault divorce, which [...]

  • Private Investigators Qualifications

    You wouldn’t hire a stock broker or a life insurance agent without making sure they were qualified. Make sure your private investigator is legitimate before disclosing your personal information. The only way a private investigator can be considered legitimate in his or her field is to have the necessary private investigator licenses. While private investigator [...]

  • Napoleonic Law and Costa Rica

    Even though the Napoleonic Code was not the first civil code and did not represent the whole of his empire, it was one of the most influential. It was adopted in many countries occupied by the French during the Napoleonic Wars and thus formed the basis of the private law systems also of Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, (and their former [...]

  • Letter Rogatory & Service of Process in Costa Rica

    As a general rule courts may serve documents only to individuals within the court’s jurisdiction. An exception to this rule is countries that invoke universal jurisdiction, granting their courts ubiquitous domain. Therefore a person seeking to take an action against a person in another country will need to seek assistance from the judicial authorities in the other country. This is of [...]

  • Looking Up Cell Phone Numbers

    To trace cell phone numbers for free is almost like an impossible task provided you are looking for all the up to date and comprehensive information behind a particular number. To trace cell phone numbers could be very interesting and thrilling if you know that the person who you are looking for is someone in [...]

  • Checklist to Avoid Scams in Costa Rica

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