Small Claims Court: Purpose and Procedures

To make the judicial system less expensive and more accessible to all.

To ensure that litigating parties do not lose time and wages by having to take leave from work.

To reduce costs by allowing the parties to conduct their own cases.

<p>A commissioner, who is not a salaried state official.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>No, only a natural person can be a plaintiff.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Actions for delivery or transfer of movable or immovable property, actions for ejection against the occupier of a premises or land, actions based on liquid documents or mortgage bonds, actions based on credit agreements, and other actions not already mentioned.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cases related to dissolution of marriage, cases regarding validity or interpretation of wills, cases regarding mental capacity of a person, cases seeking specific performance without alternative claim for damages, and cases claiming damages for libel, malicious prosecution, seduction, or breach of promise to marry.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When the person resides, carries on business, or is employed within the court's jurisdiction area; when the cause of action arose wholly within the jurisdiction area; when the defendant appears and does not object to the court's jurisdiction; when the person is the owner of fixed property in the court's jurisdictional area in an action related to the property or a mortgage bond thereon.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>No action may be instituted in a Small Claims Court if the cause of action arose from the same facts and circumstances and the same parties as a previously instituted action that was withdrawn or dismissed.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Actions related to delivery or transfer of property, ejection against an occupier, liquid documents or mortgage bonds, credit agreements, and other actions not explicitly excluded from the court's jurisdiction.</p> Signup and view all the answers