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In this lesson, you will learn what a request for admissions is, how to draft one, and how to notify the court that you’ve served a request on the opposing party.
REQUEST FOR ADMISSIONS – A list of statements asking an opponent to admit or deny specific facts.
Preparing your Request for Admissions
- Identify the party requesting the admissions as well as the opposing party.
- Number each request consecutively.
- Make sure each statement is full and complete.
- Narrowly construe each request.
- Use a notice of serving the request for admissions once you have served the request to your opponent.
Transcript
A request for admissions is a list of statements asking an opponent\’s to admit or deny specific facts.
You should use the request for admissions to have your, opponent admit a legal conclusion or to determine a party\’s opinion related to a specific fact or to determine the truth of particular facts, or to admit, or have your opponent admit, the authenticity of certain documents.
In preparing a request for admissions, you want to identify the party requesting the admissions – that\’s you – as well as the respondent or the person being asked to admit or deny the facts.
You want to number each of your requests consecutively, admission number one, admission number three. And so on so that they can be identified by number.
Make sure that each of your request or each of your statements is full and complete.
At the same time, you want to narrowly construe each request. That is make it very clear what it is you are asking should be admitted or denied.
You will serve your request for admissions on the other party.
Now you may file it in the record of your case if you like, unless for some reason local rules forbid it, but generally filing it is not required. You simply need to serve the request for admissions on the other party and then use a notice of serving. It\’s one of your document templates in your Documents tool. Use a notice of serving to file in the court and record that you have, in fact, served the request for admissions.