Answering Interrogatories With Documents Florida
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Hear this out loud PauseYou have 30 days to respond to the interrogatories. If you were served by mail, you typically have 35 days from the date of mailing to respond. Just below the top caption identifying the case, the form identifies the Answering (or Responding) party. Make sure that this is you.
Hear this out loud PauseYour answers to the interrogatories should usually be short, clear, and direct and should answer only the question that is being asked. This is not the time to set out your entire case or defense to the other side. Take the time to make sure your answers are correct and truthful.
If the court grants leave or the party consents, you can deliver interrogatories to any party in the action and they must be replied to within 21 days of delivery. Answers to interrogatories are delivered in the form of an affidavit, so the party answering the questions swears to the truth of the answers.
Hear this out loud PauseEach interrogatory must be answered separately and fully in writing under oath unless it is objected to, in which event the grounds for objection must be stated and signed by the attorney making it.
Hear this out loud PauseFor 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.