Legal Question in Civil Litigation in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Law, non commercial money lent secured by a "Personal Guarantee Agreement" for $82,000.00 in which has been defaulted. During the discovery period, can the plaintiff (pro se) request All records of money spent to equal $82,000.00 as a part of the plaintiff's discovery request to the defendent's attorney?


Asked on 4/12/10, 3:36 am

1 Answer from Attorneys

John Davidson Law Office of John A. Davidson

Sure you can but don't expect to get dime one from the debtor. Why?

1) You saved a few bucks avoiding a lawyer to draft the paperwork and maybe even seeing if the debtor was even half way credit worthy, So you saved maybe a few hundred bucks.

2) You're going to save even more $$$ by being your own attorney. That will impress the court NOT. That court is going to expect that you are as competent as a licensed PA attorney, Who knows all the rules of Civil Procedure and at trial has a working knowledge of the rules of evidence.

3) On the off chance you manage to pull this off. All you have is a hunting license for the $82k. If the debtor doesn't have it or goes bankrupt you may get little or nothing.

Then again you've saved all those legal fees.

{John}

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Answered on 4/18/10, 4:31 am


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