Rhode Island procedural guides

Plain-English guides to the Rhode Island Superior Court Rules of Civil Procedure, each one tied to the rules it relies on. Every rule named in a guide has its own page with the official text.

• Responding to a Rhode Island complaint: 20 days, and ten days' notice before judgmentRhode Island Rule 12(a) gives 20 days after service to serve an answer, or 60 days if you waived service — and an appearing defendant gets ten days' notice before a default judgment, the longest in the country.
• Setting aside a Rhode Island default judgment: ten days' notice, and no judgment without a military affidavitRhode Island requires ten days' written notice before a default judgment hearing — the longest in the country — and bars any default judgment until a military service affidavit is filed.
• The Rhode Island motion to dismiss: twenty days to answer, ten after a denialRhode Island Rule 12(b) carries the familiar seven defenses, gives 20 days to answer, and 10 days after a motion is denied.
• Rhode Island wage attachment: a hearing before your employer is ever served, and not objecting waives nothingRhode Island Rule 69(f) requires a motion, notice and a hearing before any post-judgment wage attachment, and says a debtor's failure to object waives no statutory exemption.

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