Step 1 of your response
Let's find your deadline first
Before anything else, we work out the date your written response is due. Three questions, about 60 seconds. Nothing to pay and no account to create at this step.
Look at the top of your papers. The name to the left of "vs." is the plaintiff.
It is printed at the very top of the summons, above the case number.
The day the papers were handed to you, left at your home, or delivered by mail. If you are not sure, use the earliest date it could have been.
Answer the three questions above and your estimated deadline appears here.
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