Service Interrogatories With Documents In Montgomery
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You can use interrogatories to find out facts about a case but they cannot be used for questions that draw a legal conclusion.
The original form interrogatories and signed proof of service should be retained for your records. If the other party does not respond to your requests, you may use these documents to support a motion to have the court compel responses.
Service - A party may serve the other party with interrogatories by mailing them to the other party or by hand-delivery. In certain circumstances, service may be available electronically through the Maryland Electronic Courts (MDEC). Learn more about service of process.
For interrogatories, action words such as “list,” “describe,” “identify,” or “state” are very useful. You may ask the other side to identify a document but you cannot use this form of discovery to get them to give it to you. Requesting documents requires a different kind of discovery process.
Interrogatories are written questions sent by one party in a lawsuit to another party in that same suit, which the responding party must answer under penalty of perjury. Interrogatories allow the parties to ask who, what, when, where and why questions, making them a good method for obtaining new information.
Interrogatories are lists of questions sent to the other party that s/he must respond to in writing. You can use interrogatories to find out facts about a case but they cannot be used for questions that draw a legal conclusion.
Common objections include: The request is impermissibly compound. The propounding party may ask you to answer only one question with each interrogatory. You may object to any request that asks you to answer two or more different questions in a single request.
Special Interrogatories Cannot be Used to Request Documents. The proper mechanism to have a party produce a document is an inspection demand.