This form is a Separate Answer and Affirmative Defense to a Cross-Claim. The form provides that the cross-claim fails to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. Therefore, it is requested that the cross-claim be dismissed with prejudice, with all costs assessed against the cross-plaintiff.
Texas Separate Answer and Affirmative Defenses to Crossclaim
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192.7 Definitions. (a)Written discovery means required disclosures, requests for disclosure in suits governed by the Family Code, requests for production and inspection of documents and tangible things, requests for entry onto property, interrogatories, and requests for admission.
Self-defense, entrapment, insanity, necessity, and respondeat superior are some examples of affirmative defenses. Under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 56, any party may make a motion for summary judgment on an affirmative defense.
193.7 Production of Documents Self-Authenticating An objection must be either on the record or in writing and must have a good faith factual and legal basis. An objection made to the authenticity of only part of a document does not affect the authenticity of the remainder.
(b) Duty to respond when partially objecting; objection to time or place of production. A party must comply with as much of the request to which the party has made no objection unless it is unreasonable under the circumstances to do so before obtaining a ruling on the objection.
192.6 Protective Orders. (a) Motion. A person from whom discovery is sought, and any other person affected by the discovery request, may move within the time permitted for response to the discovery request for an order protecting that person from the discovery sought.
A crossclaim seeks affirmative relief against a co-party in the lawsuit such as a co- defendant. Crossclaims are generally permissive in that they may be brought in the same suit if they arise out of the same transaction or occurrence, but some state courts allow cross claims to be brought in a sep- arate suit.
An affirmative defense is a reason given by the defendant for why the plaintiff should not win the lawsuit, even if what the plaintiff says is true. In Texas, defendants must assert affirmative defenses in their Answer at the beginning of the case or risk not being able to use them later.
Every case must be governed by a discovery control plan as provided in this Rule. A plaintiff must allege in the first numbered paragraph of the original petition whether discovery is intended to be conducted under Level 1, 2, or 3 of this Rule.
