Puerto Rico legal data from official sources, structured for AI and legaltech.
Puerto Rican laws, regulations, and court decisions live across the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico (Asamblea Legislativa), the Department of State regulations registry, government agencies, regulators, and the courts. Lawstronaut structures legal data from official sources into one format used across more than 150 jurisdictions — with every record linked to its official source. Structured Puerto Rico coverage is not yet live; Team and Enterprise customers can request priority onboarding of the sources below.
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Which statute sets out the general framework of civil law and obligations in Puerto Rico?
The Civil Code of Puerto Rico of 2020, adopted by Act No. 55-2020 of June 1, 2020, replaced the 1930 Civil Code and took effect on November 28, 2020, providing the framework for persons, property, obligations, and contracts under Puerto Rican civil law.
Source: Oficina de Servicios Legislativos de Puerto Rico (Legislative Assembly) — oslpr.org
Illustrative — Puerto Rico coverage is not yet live in the corpus; citation shown from the official source.
The official Puerto Rican sources on our roadmap
Lawstronaut structures Puerto Rican legal materials from official legislative, government, court, and regulator sources. Once Puerto Rico coverage is live, each record links back to its original source, with metadata such as issuing authority, publication date, legal link, portal, content type, and version where available.
Source categories: legislation and legislative-service portals · government departments and agencies · regulators · courts and tribunals · regulations registry and publication sources
- Asamblea Legislativa de Puerto Rico / Oficina de Servicios Legislativos (OSLPR)
- Departamento de Estado de Puerto Rico (Registro de Reglamentos)
- Tribunal Supremo de Puerto Rico (Rama Judicial)
- Tribunal de Apelaciones de Puerto Rico
- Departamento de Justicia de Puerto Rico
- Oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras (OCIF)
- Oficina del Comisionado de Seguros de Puerto Rico (OCS)
- Departamento de Asuntos del Consumidor (DACO)
- Negociado de Energía de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico Energy Bureau)
- Departamento del Trabajo y Recursos Humanos
Puerto Rican legal source types we structure
Puerto Rican legal coverage will include primary legislation, secondary legislation, regulatory materials, court decisions, guidance, enforcement documents, and legislative history where available.
Legislation & Regulations
Laws (Leyes) and joint resolutions of the Legislative Assembly, and administrative regulations (Reglamentos) filed with the Department of State, taken directly from official Puerto Rico publications and the Leyes de Puerto Rico Anotadas (LPRA) framework.
Legislative History
Bills and legislative measures from the Senate (Senado) and House of Representatives (Cámara de Representantes) of Puerto Rico where available, version by version, each tied to its source.
Regulatory Guidance & Enforcement
Circular letters, rules, guidance, and enforcement materials from Puerto Rican regulators such as OCIF, the Office of the Insurance Commissioner (OCS), DACO, and the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau.
Case Law
Court decisions from official Puerto Rico sources, including the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico (Tribunal Supremo) and the Court of Appeals (Tribunal de Apelaciones), where available.
One Puerto Rican legal data layer. Four ways to use it.
Lawstronaut API
Query Puerto Rican laws, regulations, court decisions, regulatory guidance, and enforcement materials through a REST API. Use structured metadata, full text, Markdown, source links, and version history to power legaltech products, compliance workflows, and internal research tools. Puerto Rico coverage is being onboarded — the endpoint below is live and will return records as coverage lands.
GET /v2/contents?iso=PR&limit=20Lawstronaut MCP
Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, and other AI agents to Puerto Rican legal sources. Questions become live searches against the corpus and return citation-ready answers grounded in official Puerto Rican materials — deployable in minutes, with no integration work, once coverage is live.
AI Agent Integration
Give your legal AI agent same-turn provenance: it retrieves current Puerto Rican legal materials — official source links, metadata, and full text — before generating an answer, with a citation and timestamp on every response.
Build with Lawstronaut
Build Puerto Rican legal search, monitoring, compliance, research, and legal AI features without crawling, parsing, normalizing, and updating official sources yourself. We handle source discovery, ingestion, normalization, versioning, and change detection; you build the product.
What you'll be able to do with Puerto Rican legal data
- Retrieve legal metadata, full text, Markdown, source links, and original source files where available
- Filter by jurisdiction, portal, issuing authority, authority type, language, status, and dates
- Access official legal links for citation and audit trails — citation, timestamp, and source link returned in the same turn
- Track point-in-time versions and article-level changes across Puerto Rican legal materials
- Run Horizon Scanning — track what changed in Puerto Rican law, when, and where, without manual monitoring
- Connect AI agents to official Puerto Rican sources through MCP; use the API for search, monitoring, compliance, and AI ingestion workflows
- Build internal Puerto Rican legal research tools without maintaining your own crawler stack
Why Lawstronaut for Puerto Rican legal research
Puerto Rican legal information is spread across the Legislative Assembly, the Department of State regulations registry, executive departments, statutory regulators, and the courts — with federal law applying alongside local law. For humans, that means slow research. For AI systems, it's a bigger problem: fragmented source access, inconsistent formats, missing provenance, and weak citation trails.
Lawstronaut turns those sources into one structured legal data layer — source links, metadata, full text, versioning, and API/MCP access. Your product or agent retrieves the legal source directly instead of relying on generic web search or unverified model memory. Every answer carries a citation, a timestamp, and a link to the official document — the provenance that makes a legal research platform defensible to auditors and regulators.
About Puerto Rico legal coverage
Puerto Rico is a mixed-law jurisdiction: its private law descends from the Spanish civil-law tradition, while its public law, procedure, and constitutional framework are shaped by United States common law, reflecting its status as an unincorporated territory and Commonwealth (Estado Libre Asociado) of the United States. Statutes are enacted by the bicameral Legislative Assembly — the Senate and the House of Representatives — and compiled in the Leyes de Puerto Rico Anotadas (LPRA); administrative regulations are filed with the Department of State. Case law runs through the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, the Court of Appeals, and the Court of First Instance, with federal matters heard by the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico. Legal materials are published in Spanish and English, both official languages.
Puerto Rican law has moved quickly in recent years: the Civil Code of Puerto Rico of 2020 (Act No. 55-2020) replaced the 1930 Civil Code and took effect in November 2020, and the Commonwealth's fiscal restructuring under PROMESA continues to reshape public and financial law — so citations to superseded provisions can simply be wrong. Point-in-time data straight from the source is what keeps a Puerto Rico legal research answer correct today.
Built for
Legaltech companies
Build Puerto Rican legal search, monitoring, drafting, compliance, and AI research features without maintaining your own legal source pipeline.
Compliance & GRC teams
Monitor Puerto Rican regulatory materials, guidance, enforcement updates, and legal changes across official sources — without a manual monitoring rota.
AI builders
Ground legal AI answers in official Puerto Rican legal text, source links, and metadata — answers that survive an auditor.
Internal legal teams
Give lawyers and business users faster access to Puerto Rican legal sources through AI agents and internal tools, without hiring a researcher per jurisdiction.
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Tell us which Puerto Rican sources you need first — legislation, regulators, or case law — and we'll prioritise onboarding of official Puerto Rican legal data.