Oregon Statement of Claim
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If you don't file a response 30 days after you were served, the Plaintiff can file a form called Request for Default. The Plaintiff has to wait 30 days to file this. If the Plaintiff files this form, the Court can enter a judgment against you. The Plaintiff will win the case.
You will have to pay a filing fee of approximately $50-$100, depending on the value of your claim and the court in which you file. If you are the small claims court defendant and want to contest a claim against you, you may have to pay a fee also; courts are not uniform on this, so check with the clerk's office.
Ignoring the Civil Claim will not make it go away and it is likely that the Plaintiff will apply for Judgment against you.A Judgment may be reported to the credit bureau and affect your credit rating.
Claims for more than $750 and up to $10,000 can be filed in either Small Claims or Civil court. Lawyers can represent you in Civil court. Claims for $750 or less must be filed in Small Claims court.
If you do not agree with all or some of the Plaintiff's claims you need to fill out a court form called a Defence. You can get the Defence form from a local court registry or from the Lawlink website. You must file the Defence with the court within 28 days of being served with the Statement of Claim.
After serving your Statement of Claim on all the parties, you must wait for the defendants to file their Statements of Defence. If served in Alberta, the Defendant has 20 days after service of the Statement of Claim to file their Statement of Defence and provide you with a copy.
There is a filing fee that must be paid when the form is filed with the Court. The fee is $53 for claims of $2,500 or less, and $95 for claims between $2,500 and $10,000.
If the defendant does not reply to your claim, you can ask the court to enter judgment 'by default' (that is, make an order that the defendant pay you the amount you have claimed because no reply has been received). You should do this as soon as possible after the 14 days have passed.
