When is a notification by email deemed made?
Personal notification is deemed made two business days after the message is sent, and time limits run from the following day (art. 8, Ley 2213 de 2022).
With the date the message was sent and the length of the term stated in the court order, the calculator estimates three dates on the Colombian court calendar.
Estimated dates, not guaranteed: the judge decides the computation. The calculator uses the national calendar and does not know each court's extraordinary closures; some courts count from the acknowledgement of receipt. Check before acting.
The collective judicial recess (20 December to 10 January, Decreto 546 de 1971, art. 2) and Holy Week count neither toward notice being complete nor toward the term, because CGP art. 118 excludes the days the court is closed. If your court takes individual vacations, leave those days out too.
Labour cases: if the claim was filed on or after 2 April 2026, personal notification by data message is governed by article 209 of Ley 2452 de 2025, not by article 8 of Ley 2213 de 2022. Check the computation in that law before relying on these dates.
How are the terms of Ley 2213 de 2022 counted?
Notice is deemed complete two business days after sending, and the term runs from the next business day (Ley 2213 de 2022, art. 8, inciso 3, as the Supreme Court applies it in STC8435-2023). Saturdays, Sundays, public holidays (Ley 51 de 1983), Holy Week and the collective recess are excluded (CGP art. 118). It is the same rule Notificado uses for the deadlines of every notification in the dashboard.
When does the term to answer the claim start to run?
Time limits count from when the sender receives an acknowledgement of receipt or the recipient's access to the message can otherwise be established: the condition the Constitutional Court set in ruling C-420 of 2020. As a rule, the time limit runs from the next business day (STC8435-2023). Some courts count from the acknowledgement of receipt. Every computed date should therefore be treated as an estimate, and the length of each term is whatever the court order states.
When is the defendant notified?
The notification is deemed made two business days after sending and, as a rule, the term runs from there, unless the plaintiff or the judge notices that the message was not sent successfully; actual receipt is argued in the nulidad (STC8435-2023). The Supreme Court has held that the automatic acceptance of the message by the recipient's mail server counts as that acknowledgement (STC16733-2022).
How it is counted, in the art. 8 guideNote: when notice is complete and when the term startsSTC8435-2023C-420/2020
Keep reading
- Guide: personal notification under art. 8, Ley 2213 de 2022Requirements, the sworn statement, receipt, when notice is complete and what to file.
- Is notification by email valid?Requirements, proof and nulidad under art. 8 of Ley 2213 de 2022.
- Is certified mail mandatory?What art. 8 requires to notify, and what the Corte Suprema has held.
- Certified email: what does the law require?What the term names, and what the law requires to notify under art. 8.
- Nullity for defective notificationWhat the party asking must state and what the judge weighs.
- Term of the traslado de la demandaDays to answer by type of case, from the text of the CGP.
- CGP arts. 291 and 292 compared with art. 8Citación, aviso and data message: what each route requires.
- Art. 8 notification modelWhat the message and the memorial Notificado prepares contain.
- When does the CGP call for postal certified mail?The postal route of arts. 291 and 292 of the CGP, and what art. 8 of Ley 2213 de 2022 provides to notify by data message.
- Printable checklistEvery step of an article 8 notification, to tick off before filing the memorial.
- Key case lawThe Constitutional Court and Supreme Court rulings that set the rule.
- BlogShort notes on questions that keep coming up in court.