Ecuador on Trials & Appeals & Compensation

La doctrina coincide en definir de forma general a la caducidad como "(…) el lapso que produce la extinción de una cosa o un derecho", o como "la pérdida de la validez de una facultad por haber transcurrido el plazo para ejecutarla".

In general terms, doctrine tends to define expiration as "(…) the period that produces the termination of a thing or a right," or as "the loss of force and effect of a power upon expiration of the term for its execution."

The amendment to the General Organic Code of Processes (COGEP), which entered into force on June 26, 2019, modified article 64(4) substantially modifying the interruption of the statute of limitations