Abstract. Based on the fact that, according to the legislation in force in Ecuador, the appearance at hearings is mandatory for all those who intervene in a case to such an extent that their non-attendance is sanctioned in one case and abandoned in another, without taking into account that this absence may have been due to a fortuitous event or force majeure. The present investigation is focused on validating a project to reform Article 87 of the General Organic Code of Processes focused on making it possible to justify the defendant's absence. For the validation, a Neutrosophic Hypothesis was used, which allowed to demonstrate that the lawyers of Los Ríos Province are at least partially in agreement with the proposed reform.