Reporting Crimes Regardless of the level of corruption in your area or your chances of success, always report the crimes committed against your family. I have reported the crimes against my family for over 10 years now – at the local, state and federal level – but have never received a sliver of protection or Read more about Lesson #19 – Reporting Crimes[…]
Depositions To verify facts and firm up all loose ends of your discovery, depose parties and non-parties. Depositions should be your last discovery method. Instead of diving right in to depositions at the start of discovery like many lawyers, and then thinking, “I wish I would have asked this and that,” wait until you have Read more about Lesson #18 – For all Members[…]
Subpoenas To obtain information, documents, and testimony from non-parties, you can use a Subpoena. Parties are brought under the authority of the court with a Summons (which is served along with a Complaint), and by their participation in litigation, i.e. when they submit to the jurisdiction of the court by answering a complaint or appearing Read more about Lesson #17 – For all Members[…]
Interrogatories To obtain information from the adverse party, you can interrogate them by serving Interrogatories upon them, which are merely questions or requests for information that they must answer under oath. You should use this discovery method prior to taking depositions, to save time and money, and so you can obtain information ahead of time Read more about Lesson #16 – For all Members[…]
Request for Admissions For intangible proof, you can request admissions or denials of your factual statements in a Request for Admissions. For example, in the example in Lesson #13, I could use this discovery method to request that my ex-wife admit that she testified under oath that her attorney had “graciously” waived his fees. Here Read more about Lesson #15 – For all Members[…]
Request for Production If you need documents, records, bank statements, pictures, or any other tangible piece of evidence to prove the essential elements of your causes of action, you would serve a Request for Production upon the adverse party (or parties) in possession of the items. This request can also be used to gain entry Read more about Lesson #14 – For all Members[…]
Discovery What is discovery? According to thefreedictionary.com, discovery is, “A category of procedural devices employed by a party to a civil or criminal action, prior to trial, to require the adverse party to disclose information that is essential for the preparation of the requesting party’s case and that the other party alone knows or possesses.” Read more about Lesson #13 – For all Members[…]
Motion for Default Judgment FOUNDER’S NOTE: My “VERIFIED MOTION AND AFFIDAVIT TO MODIFY PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES” in Lesson 11 was ignored by my ex-wife, so I filed a “MOTION AND AFFIDAVIT FOR DEFAULT JUDGMENT,” which is the subject of this lesson. See the motion here. Here is my MOTION FOR DEFAULT JUDGMENT in the Minnesota case Read more about Lesson #12 – For all Members[…]
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Writing a Motion with an Affidavit FOUNDER’S NOTE: My strategy changed a little since Lessons 9-10. I decided to combine the motion and affidavit, and renamed my document, “VERIFIED MOTION AND AFFIDAVIT TO MODIFY PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES.” I also decided to include a very comprehensive EXHIBIT BOOK, which contains 280-pages of documentary evidence, since this is Read more about Lesson #11 – For Victims of Parental Alienation[…]