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This program will help you prepare your documents. It will ask you questions and you will enter your answers. At the end of the program, you will get a completed set of court forms with instructions that you can save and print.
Form completion time: 5 minutes to 15 minutes
You will not be able to save your work in the middle of the program.
The interview and forms are in English.
To use this program you must have received a Complaint or Petition and Summons to appear in court.
If you are responding to an Eviction case:
- You are not always required to file a written response, and
- You might have defenses that you have to bring up before you file an Appearance or Answer. Use Get Legal Help to talk with a lawyer before using this program.
In small claims cases, you usually only have to file an Answer if ordered by the judge.
To complete this program, you will need:
- The Complaint or Petition that you received,
- The Summons that orders you to go to court and the deadline for filing a written response,
- Names and addresses of the other parties in the case, and
- Names and addresses of the other parties’ lawyers.
This program prepares the following forms. The forms you get will depend on your answers.
- How to Prepare and Send an Answer/Response to Complaint/Petition
- Answer/Response to Complaint/Petition
- Additional Paragraphs for Answer/Response to Complaint/Petition
- How to File an Appearance
- Appearance
- Additional Proof of Delivery
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