TJMG
Minas Gerais State Court (TJMG)
Search Minas Gerais state court (TJMG) cases by Brazilian CPF in 60s. One of Brazil's largest courts — 853 districts via PJE, both trial and appeals instances. Free signup credits.
- State
- Minas Gerais
- Region
- Sudeste
- Supported systems
- PJE
- Instances
- Trial and appeals
Advertised coverage. Sealed cases are not accessed.
Open official portalThe Minas Gerais State Court (TJMG) is the third largest state court in Brazil by case volume, covering 853 Minas Gerais municipalities — the state with the largest comarca network in the country. It has heavy activity in family, agribusiness, mining, corporate and state tax-enforcement matters. Full PJE migration was completed in 2019, with legacy physical cases integrated via compulsory digitization.
TJMG at a glance
- Over 10 million active cases
- 853 municipalities covered across all regions of Minas Gerais
- PJE system since 2019 (full migration with no legacy parallel)
- Around 1,100 active judges and 17,000 court staff
- About 3 million new cases filed per year on average
- High volume in family, agribusiness and mining matters
TJMG lawsuit search by CPF
NNN.NNN.NNN-NN in the "Pesquisa por Parte" field and the system returns every case in any of the 853 Minas Gerais comarcas where the CPF appears as a party (plaintiff, defendant, third party). Note that TJMG splits 1st and 2nd instance into separate subdomains (pje.tjmg.jus.br vs pje2.tjmg.jus.br) — for full due diligence, query both. For up to 20 queries per day, this manual path is enough. Above that, the Vigilant API queries both instances in a single call and returns structured JSON ready to cross-reference with compliance, KYC or CRM systems.How to search lawsuits at TJMG
Via the Vigilant API, a single REST call with a CPF returns the court's cases as structured JSON. You can also query through the web dashboard or via Google Sheets.
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Access TJMG PJE
Open pje.tjmg.jus.br in your browser. TJMG splits 1st and 2nd instance into separate subdomains: pje.tjmg.jus.br for 1st instance and pje2.tjmg.jus.br for 2nd instance. For full coverage, both must be accessed.
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Click "Public Search" on the menu
TJMG public search is accessible without digital-certificate authentication. Sealed cases do not appear — they are only visible to the parties via authenticated PJE.
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Choose "Search by Party" and enter the CPF
Enter the CPF with or without mask. TJMG lets you filter by filing date, case class and comarca — but for full due diligence, leave all filters empty.
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Walk through the returned comarcas
With 853 municipalities, cases for the same CPF may be in different comarcas (e.g. Belo Horizonte, Uberlândia, Juiz de Fora). TJMG PJE returns every case for the CPF but the user must click each to see details.
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Repeat for 2nd instance and consolidate
Access pje2.tjmg.jus.br and rerun the search for appeals in 2nd instance (Civil Chambers, Criminal Chambers, chamber groups). Easy to miss appeals if you only query 1st instance.
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Or use Vigilant for unified integration
Vigilant queries TJMG 1st and 2nd instance in a single API call — handles both subdomains internally. Returns structured JSON with CNJ, comarca, class, subject, parties and movements. Starting at R$ 0.10 per court.
Local quirks & calendar
TJMG suspends deadlines on Minas Gerais state holidays: March 25 (Minas Gerais Magna Date) and April 21 (Tiradentes, also national). The forensic recess follows the standard (Dec 20 to Jan 20). Inland comarcas typically have municipal patron saints with local suspension of court operations — always check the official calendar before critical deadlines. TJMG PJE has maintenance windows on Sundays between 8 PM and 6 AM. The separation of 1st/2nd instance into distinct subdomains is a peculiarity: many scraping tools treat it as a single tribunal and end up missing appeal-level cases.
Manual portal vs Vigilant API
| Aspect | Manual portal | Vigilant API |
|---|---|---|
| Time per query | 5-12 min (must check 1st and 2nd instance separately) | ~60s |
| Bulk queries | Infeasible above 20/day | No practical limit |
| 1st + 2nd instance coverage | Requires 2 separate searches | 1 unified call |
| Coverage of 853 comarcas | Automatic (state-wide index) | Automatic |
| Cost | Staff cost | R$ 0.10 per court |
| Return format | HTML split by instance | Consolidated JSON |
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Frequently asked questions about TJMG
TJMG PJE (pje.tjmg.jus.br) offers free public search by CPF. The peculiarity is you must also query pje2.tjmg.jus.br for 2nd-instance appeals — they are separate subdomains. For up to 20 queries/day, the portal is enough. For volume or automatic coverage of both instances, the Vigilant API simplifies.
It's an architectural decision by CNJ/TJMG — PJE does not mandate a single instance. The advantage is that 1st and 2nd instance teams have independent infrastructure (each subdomain has its own database and cache). The disadvantage is that manual queries must be duplicated. Vigilant consolidates this transparently on the API.
TJMG PJE indexes all 853 comarcas in a single base — searching by CPF returns cases from any state comarca without needing to select. The challenge is navigational: a CPF can have 50+ cases spread out, and the PJE UI does not offer per-comarca aggregations. Vigilant returns comarca metadata on each record, making geographic analysis easier.
Yes — MG concentrates heavy volume of environmental, labor and commercial cases tied to agribusiness and mining. TJMG covers state-level civil matters (contracts, tax enforcement, environmental). For federal tax or labor matters, you need TRF-1 and TRT-3 — not in TJMG.
Cases filed on PJE become visible within minutes — PJE is event-driven. Older cases (pre-2019) were digitized and indexed in batches between 2019 and 2021, so today the full base is online. Vigilant reflects this low latency — queries return near real-time data.
Yes, with the typical limitations of name search: homonyms return together, name must be spelled as registered, and search performance is worse than CPF. For serious due diligence, CPF search is always more precise.
Not for individual case search. TJMG provides access to DataJud (maintained by CNJ) for aggregated statistics, but without CPF lookup. The Vigilant API scrapes PJE reliably and legally, and is currently the most practical way to integrate TJMG into internal systems.
Vigilant's continuous monitoring supports TJMG with frequencies of 6h, 12h, daily or weekly. Email + webhook alerts whenever new cases appear against the monitored CPF. For companies operating in MG — especially mining, agribusiness and construction — continuous monitoring is essential to anticipate liabilities.
Yes — both state (ICMS, IPVA) and municipal (IPTU, ISS) tax enforcement actions flow through TJMG PJE. This matters for real-estate and corporate due diligence — an IPTU or ISS debt shows up as tax enforcement in TJMG, not in a separate municipal system.
No — labor cases in MG run through TRT-3 (Regional Labor Court of the 3rd Region), an independent system. Vigilant currently covers TJMG (state justice) but not TRT-3. For labor liability on Minas Gerais companies, you need to query TRT-3 directly.
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