Friendly mediators, arbitrators, and conciliators shall intervene in controversies of a civil nature, which are of the competence of the Court of First Instance, San Juan Part and that are referred by:\n(a) The Court of First Instance.\n(b) The Civil Code or a special law specifically refers to a friendly mediator or arbitrator.\n(c) The parties have voluntarily filed for his/her consideration civil and or mercantile matters on contracts, quasi-contracts, real rights on real or personal property, damages, excepting cases of medical malpractice.\nHistory —Sept. 9, 2000, No. 399, § 4, eff. Jan. 1, 2001.
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