Civil pleadings
Draft a civil complaint that already pleads the evidence.
The complaint is the pleading that commences a civil action, and since the 2019 Amendments it carries a heavier load than it used to: the evidence relied on has to be pleaded with the ultimate facts, and the names of witnesses and the substance of their testimony have to be stated. A complaint drafted on a pre-2019 model is incomplete on its face.
How to draft this
Four steps from a sentence to a Word file.
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Describe the document in one sentence
Type what you need in plain language — "draft a civil complaint" plus the facts you already have. No template to hunt, no blank Word file to start from.
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Generate the first draft
BatasDB matches the request to a civil complaint and writes it against the 5 required elements on this page, citing only authority retrieved from the library.
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Fill the marked blanks
Names, dates, amounts and other facts you did not supply come back as marked blanks, counted at the top of the draft. Rewrite freely in the editor.
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Export to Word or PDF
Export with the unfilled blanks highlighted. Editing, exporting and duplicating are free — only generating a new draft uses credits.
Drafted from
Rules 2, 7 and 8, Rules of Court
This is the retrieval hint BatasDB searches the library with, and the anchor for the checklist below. It is never emitted into your draft as a citation: the draft may cite only what retrieval actually returned, plus any provision you named yourself.
The checklist
What a civil complaint has to contain.
These are the elements BatasDB drafts against — injected into the generation itself, not checked afterwards. Where you have not supplied what an element needs, the draft leaves a marked blank instead of writing something plausible.
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The parties
Names, capacities and residences of every plaintiff and defendant.
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Jurisdiction and venue
The facts conferring jurisdiction and fixing venue, including the assessed value or the amount in controversy.
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Ultimate facts, with the evidence
Ultimate facts in numbered paragraphs, including the evidence relied on — Rule 8, Sec. 1 as amended in 2019.
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The cause of action
The right violated, and the defendant’s act or omission violating it.
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The prayer
A WHEREFORE prayer specifying every relief sought.
Not written by the AI
The formal parts are assembled, not generated.
The scaffolding a civil complaint needs is appended by the app from the rule that requires it. The drafting model does not write these and is explicitly told not to, so they cannot drift, be paraphrased, or come out subtly wrong.
- the ordinary civil caption
- the 2019 witnesses-and-evidence statement, because the complaint is initiatory
- the prayer, "RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED", and counsel’s signature block
- copy furnished
- the verification, the certification against forum shopping, and their jurat
What it leaves to you
The gaps are marked, not filled.
Facts you did not supply
Every name, date, amount, docket number and address you did not give comes out as a marked blank — [FACT NEEDED: …] — rather than as a plausible invention. They are counted at the top of the draft and highlighted in the Word and PDF exports.
Assertions it made on its own
A gate reads the drafted text for concrete assertions that trace back to nothing you said and nothing that was retrieved, and rewrites each as [CONFIRM: …] for you to check before you sign.
The judgment
Every draft carries a standing notice: AI-generated draft — review before filing or signing. Not legal advice. It is a first draft for a lawyer, not a filing-ready document.
FAQ
Complaint: questions lawyers ask.
- Does the draft include the verification and the certification against forum shopping?
- Yes, both, plus their jurat — assembled deterministically from Rule 7, Secs. 4 and 5 because a complaint is an initiatory pleading. The drafting AI does not write them from memory; they are appended by the app from the rule that requires them.
- Does it follow the 2019 Amendments?
- Yes. The checklist requires the evidence relied on to be pleaded with the ultimate facts under Rule 8, Sec. 1 as amended, and the witnesses-and-evidence statement is appended automatically to every initiatory pleading.
- What law is the complaint allowed to cite?
- Only what BatasDB actually retrieved from our library for this document, plus any provision you named yourself. If you cite Rule 8, Sec. 1 in your request the tool pins that provision directly; otherwise it retrieves the governing provisions and the supporting cases. Anything it cannot ground comes back as [AUTHORITY NEEDED: …].
Start from a draft that already read the rule.
Describe your civil complaint in a sentence, fill in what only you know, and export it to Word or PDF.
Uses 5 credits from your monthly allowance — editing and exporting are free. See plans →
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