223. A party may notify to the other party a written examination on facts relevant to the dispute, and require that other party to answer within a specified time, which cannot be shorter than 15 days or longer than one month. A party may also, after informing the other party, notify such an examination to any other person that may be examined.
The questions must be clear and specific, so that the absence of an answer can be taken as an admission, by the party or person examined, of the facts to which the questions pertain.
Any objection relating to the examination may be decided by the court on the face of the record.
The examination and the answers are filed in the court record by either of the parties.
2014, c. 1, a. 223; 2020, c. 292020, c. 29, s. 321.