Affidavits
Draft a judicial affidavit the rule will accept.
A judicial affidavit takes the place of a witness’s direct testimony, so its form is not cosmetic — the Judicial Affidavit Rule prescribes what it must contain, and a defective one can cost you the witness. It is also the document the 2022 Expedited Rules require to be attached to the complaint itself, on pain of not being considered at all.
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 judicial affidavit" 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 judicial affidavit 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
Export with the unfilled blanks highlighted. Editing, exporting and duplicating are free — only generating a new draft uses credits.
Drafted from
A.M. No. 12-8-8-SC, Judicial Affidavit Rule
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 judicial affidavit 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 examining lawyer
Name and address of the lawyer who conducted or supervised the examination, and the place where it was conducted.
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The oath statement
A statement that the witness is answering the questions asked under oath, aware of the penalties for perjury.
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Numbered questions and answers
Consecutively numbered, and in the witness’s own language.
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Exhibits
Documentary or object evidence identified and marked as exhibits.
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The lawyer’s sworn attestation
That they faithfully recorded the answers and did not coach the witness.
Not written by the AI
The formal parts are assembled, not generated.
The scaffolding a judicial affidavit 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 civil caption
- the affiant’s signature line
- the 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
Judicial Affidavit: questions lawyers ask.
- What must a judicial affidavit contain?
- Under A.M. No. 12-8-8-SC: the name and address of the examining lawyer and the place of examination, a statement that the witness answers under oath aware of the penalties for perjury, consecutively numbered questions and answers in the witness’s own language, the exhibits identified and marked, and the lawyer’s sworn attestation that they faithfully recorded the answers and did not coach the witness.
- When does it have to be attached to the complaint?
- In a case under the 2022 Rules on Expedited Procedures — which covers every ejectment case regardless of amount — the judicial affidavits of the plaintiff’s witnesses are attached to the complaint and form an integral part of it. Affidavits not attached shall not be considered, and a motion to admit them late is a prohibited pleading.
- Does the draft write the witness’s answers for me?
- It writes the question-and-answer structure the rule requires, but it will not invent testimony. Facts you did not supply come back as marked blanks, and any concrete assertion the draft made on its own is rewritten as [CONFIRM: …] — which on a sworn statement is exactly where you want the tool to stop.
Start from a draft that already read the rule.
Describe your judicial affidavit in a sentence, fill in what only you know, and export it to Word or PDF.
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