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Notario Guanajuato · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Derecho Civil (personas, familia, bienes, sucesiones y obligaciones)

  • Map the Civil Code of Guanajuato structure for persons, family, property and successions, marking the articles you must cite from memory

  • Build a one-page schema of legal personhood: capacity, incapacity, emancipation, domicile and absence, with the effect of each on notarial acts

  • Draft a comparison table of marriage regimes (sociedad conyugal vs. separación de bienes) and their clauses in a capitulaciones matrimoniales

  • Solve 20 practice questions on persons and family, logging every error with the rule that corrects it

  • Recite aloud the requirements of consent, object and solemnity in family acts that require public deed

Your checkpoint

A 4-page schematic outline of Civil Code Book One and family law, with article citations and 20 answered questions with error log

Week 2

Derecho Civil (personas, familia, bienes, sucesiones y obligaciones)

  • Classify property as immovable, movable, and by ownership regime (private, public, ejidal), noting which classification blocks or permits a notarial act

  • Explain possession, usucapión, co-ownership, usufruct, use, habitation and servitude, and identify which of these you can constitute by public deed

  • Outline the obligations regime: sources, payment, subrogation, novation, compensation, remission and prescription periods

  • Compare the types of contract in the Civil Code (compraventa, arrendamiento, mutuo, comodato, mandato, depósito) by form, capacity and registration needs

  • Answer 25 mixed questions on property and obligations and rewrite each wrong answer as a rule statement

Your checkpoint

A comparative grid of 8 civil contracts (form, capacity, registration, tax trigger) plus an error log of 25 questions

Week 3

Derecho Civil (personas, familia, bienes, sucesiones y obligaciones) & Derecho Notarial (fe pública, instrumentos, protocolo y actuaciones notariales)

  • Diagram the succession process: intestate order of heirs, testamentary forms, legacies, executor, inventory and partition

  • Draft from scratch a model will in the public open form, including clauses on heirs, legacies, recognition of obligations and revocation

  • List the formalities of the protocolo: authorization, protocolization, testimonio, appendices and the notarial seal

  • Distinguish instrumento público from póliza and acta, and state which acts of each type the law permits

  • Explain the notary's fe pública: scope, limits and the difference between fe pública plena and actos de presencia

Your checkpoint

A complete model of a public open will plus a one-page flowchart of the succession process from death to adjudication

Week 4

Derecho Notarial (fe pública, instrumentos, protocolo y actuaciones notariales)

  • Write the standard structure of a compraventa deed: antecedents, clauses, declarations, general and special conditions, signatures and protocolization

  • Identify the notarial acts outside the protocolo (actas de presencia, notificaciones, cotejos, certificaciones) and their requirements

  • Describe the protocolo's rules: order, numbering, index, custody, and the procedure for protocolizing documents from outside

  • Explain the notary's duties on identity verification, capacity assessment and warning about the act's effects

  • Answer 20 questions on notarial law and write the supporting rule for each

Your checkpoint

A full draft compraventa deed with all sections, plus a checklist of 15 verification points before signature

Week 5

Derecho Mercantil (sociedades, títulos de crédito y contratos mercantiles) & Derecho Registral y Derecho Inmobiliario (registro público de la propiedad, catastro y régimen inmobiliario)

  • Outline the types of commercial company, their incorporation deed and the clauses that must appear in the escritura constitutiva

  • Summarize the regime of títulos de crédito: requisitos, endorsement, aval, protest and prescription, and which acts require notarial intervention

  • Trace the registration procedure at the Registro Público de la Propiedad: entry, qualification, inscription, cancellation and the principle of publicity

  • Explain the role of catastro and its relationship with the deed and the registry for property transfers

  • Solve 20 questions combining commercial and registry law, noting the interaction points

Your checkpoint

A two-column table of 10 acts (5 commercial, 5 registry) showing notarial step, registry step and required documents

Week 6

Derecho Fiscal y Financiero aplicado a la función notarial & Derecho Constitucional y Administrativo (incluye responsabilidad y régimen disciplinario notarial)

  • List the federal and state tax obligations triggered by notarial acts: ISR on transfers, IVA where applicable, and state traslado de dominio and derechos

  • Calculate a sample traslado de dominio and explain the notary's role as withholding agent and the consequences of omission

  • Summarize the constitutional principles of legality, publicity, non-retroactivity and due process as applied to notarial discipline

  • Outline the notarial disciplinary regime: causes, procedure, sanctions and the authority that imposes them

  • Answer 15 questions on fiscal and administrative responsibility, writing the legal basis for each

Your checkpoint

A worked tax calculation for one property transfer plus a one-page summary of disciplinary causes and sanctions

Week 7

Derecho Procesal Civil y Familiar & Derecho Penal (delitos relacionados con la fe pública y responsabilidad notarial)

  • Outline the civil procedure stages relevant to notarial practice: demanda, contestación, pruebas, sentencia and ejecución

  • Explain family procedure acts that come before a notary: divorcio administrativo, convenio, adopción and jurisdictional acts

  • Identify the crimes against fe pública: falsificación de documentos, uso de documento falso, falsedad en declaraciones and their elements

  • Connect notarial liability with criminal, civil and administrative consequences for the same act

  • Answer 15 mixed procedural and criminal questions and write a one-line rule for each error

Your checkpoint

A one-page matrix of 6 crimes against fe pública (elements, penalty range, notarial exposure) plus a procedural stage flowchart

Week 8

Ética notarial y práctica profesional & Derecho Notarial (fe pública, instrumentos, protocolo y actuaciones notariales)

  • State the ethical duties of the notary: independence, impartiality, confidentiality, conflict of interest and rejection of illicit acts

  • Apply an ethical decision framework to 5 realistic dilemmas and defend each conclusion in writing

  • Rehearse a timed 100-question mock exam under real conditions and score it

  • Review every error from the mock and map it to the domain and the source rule

  • Consolidate a final one-page summary sheet per domain for last-day review

Your checkpoint

Timed 100-question mock exam scored, with a corrected error log and 9 one-page domain summary sheets

Milestones

Week 2: Score at least 70% on a 40-question set drawn only from Civil Law topics (persons, family, property, obligations) and have an error log with a rule for every miss

Week 4: Produce an unassisted full draft of a compraventa deed and a public will in under 90 minutes each, checked against your own 15-point checklist

Week 6: Complete the worked tax calculation correctly and explain, without notes, 5 disciplinary causes with their sanction and authority

Week 8: Score at least 80% on the timed 100-question mock exam, with no domain below 60%, and finish all 9 summary sheets