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In reply to the discussion: I'm going to be homeless [View all]TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)As I understand it, I have 20 days to file my Answer to the Complaint within 20 days from the date that the Complaint was filed with the court. The court counts the day that it was filed as Day #1. Since Day #20 (my last day to file the Answer) falls on a weekend when the court is closed then the last day for me to file it would be the next business day which would be Monday, May 11th. I need to check with the clerk's office to be absolutely certain of this though since I can't be a single minute late.
This is just about the Complaint the scumlord hired an attorney to do. It's a lawsuit. A Complaint is normally how a lawsuit starts. But in the Complaint nothing at all is mentioned about the eviction hearing in the lower court nor my appeal in the higher court where the Complaint was filed which means that my scumlord lied to her attorney and never said anything about them. Her attorney should have filed the Complaint attached to my appeal because it's the same case. That's what I understand from the supervisor woman at the court who's really nice. When she brought up my appeal on her computer she noticed that the Complaint was separate and had a separate case number which she thought was really weird and a mistake made by one of her clerks there. It isn't though. Once I read the Complaint I knew that the scumlord just never said anything to her attorney about either the eviction hearing or the appeal. Even worse, the Complaint blames all the damages in this dump on ME! But I totally see her doing that since she's a pathological liar and this is the story she gives out to everyone.