delaying lawsuit

You will have to contact the person filing the case and try to negotiate with him or her so that you get few weeks time. Now, it will depend upon the person whether or not he or she will consider your request and give you the required time.

Hi thats where I live. I had the same issue last year before filing bankruptcy. I had a lawsuit against me, called the lawyers office suing me to let them know that the week after the court case was scheduled I was filing. I figured I would be nice and save them the waste of time and resources going to court. Lordy, did they get nasty with me about it-called me a liar and just trying to stall the case. I said no I figured I might would save ya'll the waste. They didnt believe me, so I went and showed up at court and I told the judge that next week I was filing bankrupt, had the lawyer-partial paid off-waiting for 1 more check to pay in full so he could file, and I had told this office suing me so we wouldnt have to waste the courts time. Judge didnt care, they got a judgement against me. I really didnt care cause I figured oh well they just wasted their time and even more money suing me and now they got to eat all that cost and expense. The following week I filed bankrupt. It felt real good too!! Two weeks later I called that lawyers office and laughed in their face, told them haha cost you even more, now you dont get squat. I probably should not have done that, but damn it felt good, real good. I say let them go to court, it costs them even more in the long run.