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Since an amended complaint supplants the original complaint, it would unduly prejudice a defendant if it were bound by an original answer when the original complaint has no legal effect. As a result, an amended complaint should ordinarily be followed by an answer.

No, you do not need a new summons for an amended complaint. You shouldn't have to pay an additional filing fee, either. However, you need to make sure that amended complaints are served within the rules for service of process in your jurisdiction.

844 of 2015] the Supreme Court ruled that if the amendment which is sought to be done in the complaint, and is only a simple infirmity, which is responsive to by the means of a formal amendment, and no prejudice is done to the other side in the process, then the Court may allow amendment of the complaint.

A party can amend its pleading once as a matter of right (without leave of court) during certain time periods after filing the pleading, including: Before the defendant files an answer, demurrer, or motion to strike a complaint or cross-complaint. Before the plaintiff files a demurrer or motion to strike an answer.

An amended complaint does notjust add to the first complaint. Once you file an amended complaint it entirely replaces your original complaint. Amendments to a complaint are governed by Rule 15(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

An answer may be amended once without leave of court within ten (10) days after the answer was filed, or if there is a demurrer to the answer, amendment without leave of court may be made before the demurrer hearing. Amendment as a matter of right is made by filing and serving the amended pleading.

Amend- ed pleadings allow the party to add claims, parties, or defenses based on facts that occurred before the original pleading was filed. Supplemental pleadings allow the party to add claims or defenses based on facts that occurred after the original plead- ing was filed.

Leave to amend is refused when there has been excessive delay by the parties in filing the suit. Application of Amendment is refused when it changes the nature of the disputes. The court will not grant application of amendment of pleadings if it is made with mala fide intention.

A party may amend the party's pleadings once as a matter of course at any time before a responsive pleading is served or, if the pleading is one to which no responsive pleading is permitted and the action has not been set for trial, the party may so amend it at any time within fifteen (15) days after it is served.

i. Text of Rule 12.01: A defendant shall serve an answer within thirty (30) days after the service of the summons and complaint upon him. A party served with a pleading stating a cross-claim against such party shall serve an answer thereto within thirty (30) days after the service upon him or her.