Get Tx Defendants Original Answer - Dallas County 2021-2025

Small claims cases are governed by rules 500-507 of part v of the rules of civil procedure. A suit shall be brought in the county and precinct in which one or more defendants reside. It is the plaintiff's duty to provide the correct legal name and address of the person or business your claim is against.

A pleading setting up any of the following matters, unless the truth of such matters appear of record, shall be verified by affidavit. 1. That the plaintiff has not legal capacity to sue or that the defendant has not legal capacity to be sued.

File (turn in) your completed answer form with the court. To file online, go to E-File Texas (https://efile.txcourts.gov/ofsweb) [11] and follow the instructions. To file in person, take your answer (and copies) to the district clerk's office in the county where the plaintiff filed the case.

Rule 91. Special Exceptions (Mar1941) A special exception shall not only point out the particular pleading excepted to, but it shall also point out intelligibly and with particularity the defect, omission, obscurity, duplicity, generality, or other insufficiency in the allegations in the pleading excepted to.

A general denial is a statement that the defendant “generally denies all the allegations in the plaintiff's petition.” Some answers need to be sworn to under oath.

Rule 92. General Denial (1941) A general denial of matters pleaded by the adverse party which are not required to be denied under oath, shall be sufficient to put the same in issue.

After the cause has been transferred, as above provided for the clerk of the court to which the cause has been transferred shall mail notification to the plaintiff or his attorney that transfer of the cause has been completed, that the filing fee in the proper court is due and payable within thirty days from the ...