What does deposition mean?

Question

I Attorney wants Spears deposition soon

NEW YORK - The attorney for Kevin Federline says he wants to depose Britney Spears soon, the latest step in the former couple's ongoing child-custody battle.

"Britney Spears will have her deposition early (next) year," Mark Vincent Kaplan told People.com late Saturday outside a Beverly Hills restaurant. "We've got a lot to talk about."

Spears, 26, called in sick to a court-ordered deposition Dec. 12, although she was photographed that day driving with a friend.

"She was, in fact, out later that day and night," Kaplan said. "It's not fourth grade where you get a doctor's note and it's all OK."

Spears and Federline have been wrangling for months over custody of their sons, 2-year-old Sean Preston and 1-year-old Jayden James.
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what does deposition mean

Answer 1

A deposition is where she makes a statement regarding this matter under oath --- Federline's lawyer will question her, and she will have lawyers there also. It all is recorded and written down, for possible use in a trial. This is done in the lawyer's office, not a courtroom.

Answer 2

"In law, a deposition is evidence given under oath and recorded for use in court at a later date. In many countries depositions are given in courtrooms, but in the United States they are given outside a courtroom in certain well-defined circumstances. In the U.S. it is a part of the discovery process in which litigants obtain information from each other in preparation for trial. Some jurisdictions recognize an affidavit as a form of deposition."

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deposition_%28law%29

Answer 3

deposition: Sworn statement, Sworn to be true

Answer 4

Break this down quick and simple for you this means (you better not be lying.)