§ 14A.060.Questionnaire

One sentence, and it matters more in this chapter than in the one it was copied from.

To implement this chapter, a court may develop, for use in that court, a questionnaire to be filed by the civilly committed individual.

What the chapter asks for is longer than its counterpart requires. A full litigation history without an attorney, the committing court, whether any allegation in the petition was filed elsewhere before, a grievance exhaustion certification, a vexatious litigant certification, the grievance decision with two dates, and a certified trust account statement.

Two of those are certifications on oath, and a knowingly false one is a ground for dismissing the claim outright.

A litigant drafting that unaided is likely to omit something, and the omission is what ends the case rather than the merits.

A questionnaire turns the requirements into questions, which is the difference between a requirement a person can meet and one they cannot.

The court gains from it too. Screening filings under this chapter means checking each disclosure, and a consistent form makes that possible at a glance rather than by reading prose.

"For use in that court" leaves the form local, so there is no standard version and practice varies.

The provision is permissive, and nothing follows from a court not adopting one — the requirements apply either way.