One debtor. Three addresses.
One court.
Seventy-eight seconds on why the address on the invoice is not the address that matters — and how the right one is found before anyone picks up the phone.
The creditor sent the burofax to the address on the invoice. It came back.
Rotterdam's first move was correct in spirit and wrong in geography: a certified demand to the Barcelona address printed on the invoice. Barcelona is a branch. The burofax is returned — destinatario desconocido — and a month is gone. The debtor, meanwhile, knows exactly where it isn't.
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INVOICE
Before we call, we know all three.
Registro Mercantil, BORME, solvency databases, the property registry. The scan returns the registered seat — Madrid — the Barcelona branch, the Málaga depot where the directors work, and the two sister companies that share them. Now the file has a legally effective address, an operational address, and a map of where the assets sit.
The court is where the seat is. Art. 813 LEC. Not negotiable.
A monitorio files at the court of the debtor's registered domicile. Not where the goods went, not where the contract was signed, not where the directors drink their coffee. For this debtor that is Madrid. Barcelona would have been rejected for venue. Málaga would have been rejected for venue. The map is not decoration — it is the filing instruction.
The burofax goes to Madrid. The doorbell rings in Málaga.
The certified demand now lands at the seat — legally effective, no "never received it" available. On the same morning a field agent visits the Málaga depot where the directors actually are, and a call from a Madrid number references the BORME filings by name. Three addresses, three pressures, one file. The debtor's geography stopped being a defence.
Forty days of stalling. The petition files in Madrid — first time, right court.
The debtor's finance manager negotiates, delays, negotiates again. On day 40 the monitorio is filed — at the Madrid court, with the returned Barcelona burofax in the bundle as evidence of the creditor's diligence and the debtor's evasiveness. A petition filed in the wrong city would have been dismissed for venue and refiled months later. This one is admitted in nine days.
Served at the seat. Paid from the depot.
The court serves the petition at the Madrid seat; the money leaves the Málaga operating account nine days later, before the twenty-day window closes. Full principal plus statutory interest. The creditor never learned the three addresses — they didn't need to. That was the job.
Wherever they are,
the protocol reaches.
Tell us the debtor's city and what you're owed. We confirm the seat, map the addresses, and file — if it ever comes to that — in the right court the first time.
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