The Court wants to know if the person being sued is entitled to those protections or not.
The goal of the SCRA is to allow the men and women serving their country to do so without worries of default judgments, evictions, foreclosures or some other legal actions. The SCRA requires plaintiffs to conduct military status verifications in certain situations to ensure the protection of the servicemembers’ rights.
Before a court will enter a default judgment, the judge will almost always require that the plaintiff (the lender, landlord or whoever is trying to get a judgment) submit a military affidavit. Other names for military affidavits include
- Nonmilitary affidavits
- Affidavits of military service or
- Affidavits in compliance with the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act.
In an affidavit, the plaintiff swears they have done a military status verification showing whether the individual is on active military duty.
