ATTORNEY OR PARTY WITHOUT ATTORNEY (Name, State Bar number, and address):

FOR COURT USE ONLY

DISC-020

FAX NO. (Optional):

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF

TELEPHONE NO.:

E-MAIL ADDRESS (Optional):

      ATTORNEY FOR (Name):

STREET ADDRESS:

MAILING ADDRESS:

CITY AND ZIP CODE:

BRANCH NAME:

SHORT TITLE:

Requesting Party:
Answering Party:
Set No.:

REQUESTS FOR ADMISSION

Truth of Facts

Genuineness of Documents

CASE NUMBER:

INSTRUCTIONS

Requests for admission are written requests by a party to an action requiring that any other party to the action either admit or deny,  
under oath, the truth of certain facts or the genuineness of certain documents. For information on timing, the number of admissions a  
party may request from any other party, service of requests and responses, restrictions on the style, format, and scope of requests for  
admission and responses to requests, and other details, see Code of Civil Procedure sections 94–95, 1013, and 2033.010–2033.420  
and the case law relating to those sections.
An answering party should consider carefully whether to admit or deny the truth of facts or the genuineness of documents. With limited  
exceptions, an answering party will not be allowed to change an answer to a request for admission. There may be penalties if an  
answering party fails to admit the truth of any fact or the genuineness of any document when requested to do so and the requesting  
party later proves that the fact is true or that the document is genuine. These penalties may include, among other things, payment of 
the requesting party’s attorney’s fees incurred in making that proof.
Unless there is an agreement or a court order providing otherwise, the answering party must respond in writing to requests for  
admission within 30 days after they are served, or within 5 days after service in an unlawful detainer action. There may be significant  
penalties if an answering party fails to provide a timely written response to each request for admission. These penalties may include,  
among other things, an order that the facts in issue are deemed true or that the documents in issue are deemed genuine for purposes  
of the case. 
Answers to Requests for Admission must be given under oath. The answering party should use the following language at the end of  
the responses:

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing answers are true and correct.

(DATE)

(SIGNATURE)

These instructions are only a summary and are not intended to provide complete information about requests for admission. This 
Requests for Admission form does not change existing law relating to requests for admissions, nor does it affect an answering party’s 
right to assert any privilege or to make any objection.

REQUESTS FOR ADMISSION
You are requested to admit within 30 days after service, or within 5 days after service in an unlawful detainer action, of this Requests  
for Admission that:
1.

                                                     (if more than one, number each fact consecutively):
Each of the following facts is true 

2.

The original of each of the following documents, copies of which are attached, is genuine (if more than one, number each  
document consecutively):

Continued on Attachment 1

Continued on Attachment 2

Form Approved for Optional Use   
Judicial Council of California 
DISC-020 [Rev. January 1, 2008]

(TYPE OR PRINT NAME)

(SIGNATURE OF PARTY OR ATTORNEY)

REQUESTS FOR ADMISSION

Code of Civil Procedure, 
§§ 94–95,  2033.010–2033.420, 2033.710 

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