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If a reply is required, the reply must be served within 20 days after service of the answer.
Rule 1.140(a)(1) provides twenty days to serve a reply if a reply is required. An avoidance is an allegation of additional facts intended to overcome an affirmative defense. Kitchen v. Kitchen, 404 So. 2d 203 (Fla.
A party may amend a pleading 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 placed on the trial calendar, may so amend it at any time within 20 days after it is served.
(1) Unless a different time is prescribed in a statute of Florida, a defendant must serve an answer within 20 days after service of original process and the initial pleading on the defendant, or not later than the date fixed in a notice by publication.
Amendments of Complaints and Petition. - Complaints may be amended once as a matter of right before the respondent files a responsive pleading thereto. The same rule applies to petitions which implead a respondent.
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 15 states in pertinent part: A party may amend its pleading only with the opposing party's written consent or the court's leave. The court should freely give leave when justice so requires. F.R.C.P. 15(a)(2) (emphasis added).
Under the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure, a party is not required to reply to the opposing party's affirmative defenses merely to deny them. In fact, under Rule 1.110(e) affirmative defense are automatically deemed as denied in the absence of a reply.
Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.190(a) allows a Plaintiff to amend its original complaint as a matter of course one time before the Complaint is served. Meaning you can file the Amended Complaint without going to court, asking the judge's permission or obtaining court approval.
Rule 15 of the federal rules of civil procedure allows the plaintiff to amend their complaint one time within 21 days of serving the original complaint or at any point before the defendant answers the complaint.