Notario Guanajuato study plan
Notario Guanajuato · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 7 hours per week
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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