Child Custody And Divorce: Free Legal Advice
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An ANSWER is the document that you file in response to a complaint, if you're not the party doing the suing, but are instead the party being sued. It's used, and understood by the courts and by the attorneys, to determine just what is and just what is not at issue between these folks.
Those things that are not at issue are agreed upon. Those things that ARE at issue may need to be decided by the judge.
The court rules (and there are a lot of them: that's what you pay your lawyer for) provide that each COMPLAINT set forth facts, in numbered paragraphs, one fact per paragraph, in the complaint. The court rules also provide that the person ANSWERing set forth answers, in numbered paragraphs, one answer per paragraph (corresponding to the allegations in the complaint's paragraph), in direct response to those specific allegations in the complaint.
I've attached here a sample complaint. Go look at it.complaint
I've also attached a sample answer. Go look at it.answer
From examining the complaint side-by-side with the answer, you should be able to determine the following questions, just like a judge would:
1. Is the Defendant, John Jones, the real father of the child, Marty Jones?
2. Is the Defendant, John Jones, entitled to any portion of Jenny Jones' beauty shop business?
3. Is the Plaintiff, Jenny Jones, entitled to have some of her attorneys fees paid by the Defendant, John Jones?
Now go figure it out. Really. And then we'll go to the
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