I’m from the UK suing isn’t as big a thing here. I’m 30 and I have never even spoke to a lawyer/ solicitor once so that whole world is a mystery to me. TIA!
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Not a lawyer. My understanding in my jurisdiction somewhere in the USA it works like:
You have to file a petition or “complaint” with the clerk of the court, along with a summons. The complaint is a formal statement written in lawyers’ voodoo that names the lousy bastard you’re suing and lays out their infamous wrongdoing for all to see. The summons is a letter written in lawyers’ voodoo that informs the bastard what you’re suing them for and where and when to show up. The clerk books a date/time/judge for the initial hearing and stamps your paperwork.
You then have to “serve” the papers to Mr. Bastard. You cannot personally deliver them, and there are people called process servers who make their living doing this kind of work. Once they’re served, they have 30 days to respond. They can file an “answer” which is like the Complaint but their side of the story, a “denial” which says nothing in the Complaint is true, or a “demure” which is saying “maybe I did do some of this complaint but there are these other factors which make me not a bastard”, or some other process-based things. Assuming neither of you give up by the time the hearing date rolls around, then the lawsuit starts happening.
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