You just got a packet of documents in the mail either from your attorney or from another
party to a lawsuit and they're called Interrogatories.
You got to answer some questions from either your attorney or the other side.
How important is it to give complete answers to these Interrogatories?
Hi, I'm Frank Nunes, I'm a civil law trial attorney practicing in the state of California.
Join me as I explain why it's important to give full and complete answers to interrogatories.
Well, what are interrogatories?
First of all, they're a series of written questions usually exchanged by parties in
a lawsuit designed to learn information about each sides' case.
This allows the lawyers or the parties, if they're self-represented, to evaluate the
merits of the case and see where the strong points of their case are and where the not
so strong points are.
These interrogatories are just like giving testimony and they require that they be answered
under oath.
Meaning, under penalty of perjury.
They obligate the party to investigate facts to give the information asked for in the interrogatories.
Sometimes they have to find out other information to get that information to the response in
the interrogatory and they put quite a burden on the responding party as well as the responding
parties' attorney because they require that they provide complete answers.
Now, providing complete answers is to expand and not just to answer a question as is written
but to explain the answer when your attorney suggests you do so.
Why is that important?
Well, sometimes people leave off information in interrogatories and what happens when they
have interrogatories?
Most likely, they're going to have their deposition set in the case.
And, what is the attorney asking them questions in that deposition going to do?
He or she is going to look at the responses from the interrogatories and ask them, "Well,
you said this when you responded to these interrogatories under oath and now your testimony
is something different.
Were you lying then or were you lying now?
Why are these two things inconsistent or why is there less information provided when that
information was known to you at the time you swore out answers to these responses?"
Once a client has been put to the point of being not trusted and viewed as not truthful,
if the matter proceeds to trial, the judge may instruct the jury or the judge himself
or herself that this person is not to be trusted at all in any matters of credibility.
This is why it's so important to give complete and accurate answers to interrogatories when
they come to you.
There's a time limit to answer them.
Most often the parties will work out an extension if additional time is needed to get those
complete answers, but do your best to get complete answers, disclose everything that's
asked in the interrogatory, work with your attorney to make sure those answers are complete
and you can avoid a lot of problems in your case down the road.
Well, that's it for today's video on why it's important to give complete answers to interrogatories.
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I'm Frank Nunes, and thanks for watching.
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