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Add the complaint, the answer and the filing receipt. Fyllyo fills the UCS-840C on your Mac. Anything it can’t confirm is left for you, with the reason.
The UCS-840C asks for what the pleadings say: which kinds of claims are made, the compensatory damages claimed, the equitable relief asked for, and the counterclaims. Software goes wrong where a case file holds many figures and passages that look like the answer: a grand total with punitive damages in it, a settlement proposal, an affirmative defense, a bank or an insurer in the story. These are the common places AI tools and autofill get it wrong. What the form requires is for the New York State Unified Court System to say. Follow its instructions. NY courts instructions for Form UCS-840C.
A complaint’s demand for judgment lists compensatory damages, punitive damages, interest, fees and costs, and memos often add them into one “total demand”. Software can copy that total, or the largest dollar figure it sees, into the compensatory damages line.
A complaint can state one compensatory figure in its text and itemize the damages in a schedule that adds up to a different one. Software usually takes whichever figure it reads first and never notices the other.
The form lists twelve kinds of claims in long legal wording. Software matching words can miss a box when the complaint names its cause differently, such as breach of warranty for a sale of goods.
Case papers mention banks that moved the money, insurers handling a related claim, and contract clauses that send some disputes to arbitration. Software that marks a box whenever a keyword appears can tick categories the case doesn’t plead.
An answer has denials, affirmative defenses such as a setoff, and sometimes a counterclaim. Software can copy the defenses or the setoff amount into the counterclaims space, or write its own summary.
A case file also holds settlement letters, which talk about the same contract and the same goods. Software can fill the plaintiff’s equitable relief with terms from a settlement proposal, or with a summary of its own.
The papers carry many counties: where the parties are based, where the lawyers’ offices are, where a verification was sworn. Software can fill the court’s county from any of them.
With a test client and five documents (the verified complaint with its damages schedule, the verified answer with a counterclaim, the filing receipt, a settlement letter and a paralegal’s memo), Fyllyo filled 8 fields in 27 seconds. It left the compensatory damages for the preparer, with both amounts.
Fyllyo can fill all 21 fields on Form UCS-840C from the client’s documents. Lines the documents don’t support stay blank and are listed for you to check.
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