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Good afternoon -- I am currently being sued by Portfolio Recovery for an old credit card debt. I filed my initial answer back in July, along with a Motion to Compel and attached a copy of the Card Agreement to the motion when filing. My pre-trial date was on October 7, and when I arrived the court had misfiled my motion to compel, and was not aware that there was to be a motion hearing at that time. The plaintiff's attorney and I spoke with the clerk and we rescheduled the motion hearing for December 16th, but when I was reviewing the paperwork I noticed that I had attached the wrong Card Agreement which I had downloaded from the CFPB -- I had initially download the current (6/2021) agreement, when in fact I needed to attach the agreement from 9/2019. When I merged the files into a .PDF I accidentally attached the newest agreement, which wouldn't effect me as Portfolio had already purchased the debt in January 2021. How do I file a change at this point? Is it to late to update this? How would I reword or change my Motion? Thank you all for all of your help and information so far!

Amendment form for motion to appear & answer I believe I may have been misguided by a volunteer attorney in filling out my "Motion To Appear And Answer". Question 1. My understanding is that if I write anything but "Deny" on the form, it automatically puts me in a position to receive a judgment. Is this correct? I would like to amend my motion but have been unsuccessful in locating the form even under the proper sublink on the Circuit Court of Cook County website. Question 2. I would greatly appreciate if someone can direct me to where I can print out the amendment form or would be willing to put a link to the form here in reply to my post. Question 3. Once I fill out my amendment form to reflect the change to "Deny", do I then need to file another motion to appear and answer or is that already a part of the amendment form? Thank you!