A Portuguese insolvency — processo de insolvência — is opened by a petition before the commercial court, but its cost does not follow the ordinary value-banded taxa de justiçaPortugal's court fee — the mandatory charge payable to the State to file or proceed with a case, fixed by the Regulamento das Custas Processuais (DL 34/2008). Each fee is a multiple of the unidade de conta, read off the RCP value tables (Tabela I/II). It is a court cost, not a lawyer fee — Portugal has no statutory lawyer tariff.Glossary → of the Regulamento das Custas Processuais. Insolvency cost rules are governed by the CIRE (Código da Insolvência e da Recuperação de Empresas), where the charge depends on inputs outside the shared litigation-value taxonomy — whether the petitioner is the debtor or a creditor, and the value of the estate. Because those drivers sit outside the RCP scale Tarifo models, and because the headline cost of an insolvency is dominated by the administrator’s remuneration and estate costs, the insolvency petition is treated as out of scope for the taxa de justiça engine. Portugal has no statutory lawyer tariff.
Insolvency opening petition
A petition to open insolvency proceedings — pedido de declaração de insolvência — filed by a creditor against a debtor, or by the debtor (or company) for its own insolvency.
A creditor files it when a debtor has stopped meeting its obligations; a debtor files when insolvency is unavoidable. The court appoints an administrador de insolvência to manage and liquidate the estate.
No modelled taxa de justiça — CIRE regime. Insolvency cost rules follow the CIRE’s own provisions (creditor vs. debtor, asset value) rather than the generic Tabela I lookup, so the calculator returns no taxa de justiça here. A dedicated insolvency-cost module is out of scope for now.
Compute this case in the calculatorThe cost of a Portuguese insolvency is governed by the CIRE’s own cost regime — driven by the petitioner type and the estate value, and dominated by the administrator’s remuneration — rather than the value-banded taxa de justiça of the Regulamento das Custas Processuais, so the calculator does not model a court fee for an insolvency petition and returns no figure. Portugal has no statutory lawyer tariff. See the methodology page for how out-of-scope cases are handled.