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Draft a demand letter that puts the debtor in delay.
A demand letter is not just a polite warning — under Civil Code art. 1169 it is usually what puts the debtor in delay, and delay is what makes interest and damages run. That is why the mode of service matters as much as the amount: a demand you cannot later prove was received did not do its legal work.
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 demand letter" plus the facts you already have. No template to hunt, no blank Word file to start from.
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BatasDB matches the request to a demand letter and writes it against the 5 required elements on this page.
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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
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Drafted from
Civil Code arts. 1169 and 1170 (delay and its consequences)
This shapes the checklist below and the form of the document. It is not emitted into your draft as a citation — this document type does not conventionally cite authority, so BatasDB skips library retrieval for it entirely rather than padding a simple document with citations.
The checklist
What a demand letter 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 source of the obligation
The contract, instrument or transaction the obligation arises from, with its date.
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The exact amount
Broken into principal, interest and charges — not a single lump figure.
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A specific period to comply
Counted from receipt, so the deadline is capable of proof.
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The consequence
The legal action that will follow non-compliance.
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Proof of service
The mode of service, so receipt can later be proved. This is the item most template demand letters leave out.
Not written by the AI
The formal parts are assembled, not generated.
The scaffolding a demand letter 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 complimentary close
- counsel’s signature block
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
Demand Letter: questions lawyers ask.
- Is a demand letter required before filing a case?
- Not universally, but it matters in two ways that decide cases. Under Civil Code art. 1169 demand is generally what puts the debtor in delay, so interest and damages run from it; and in unlawful detainer the demand to vacate and to pay is an element, with the one-year period counted from the last demand.
- Does the draft cite cases?
- No. A demand letter is correspondence, not an argument, so this format does not run jurisprudence retrieval — Civil Code arts. 1169 and 1170 shape what the letter must settle rather than being quoted back at the recipient.
- Will it invent the amount or the deadline?
- No. If you did not give the principal, the interest, the contract date or the period to comply, each comes back as a marked blank and is counted at the top of the draft. A demand letter with a plausible-looking wrong amount in it is worse than no letter.
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