George,
The purpose that I use the Conditional Acceptance for is to..."Remove The Controversy".
In short, we go to court because we are in a dispute in which we can't resolve for ourselves as mature adults. The judge comes in as the “nanny” to settle the dispute for us.
Basically, without a dispute to adjudicate...the courts can't act!
Your Conditional Acceptance is nothing more than a Counter-Offer to someone's Claim.
My other posting also covers How To Stay In Honor with the courts and in your contracts. You have four doors to choose from.
Disputing a Claim against you, or Ignoring the claim (remaining silent); puts you in Dishonor.
Accepting the claim against you...or Conditionally Accepting the claim; keeps you in Honor.
Look at everything in Law as Contract. When someone makes a claim against you, they are trying to Compel Performance in some way.
Your Conditional Acceptance tells the other party that you will accept their claim against you (therefore you stay in Honor), BUT they must meet your per-conditions first!
Now you just put the ball back in the other party's court!
Example: someone Claims that you owe them money, and you have 20 days to pay.
You counter-offer and state that you accept their claim for the money, but only if they can provide you a certified bill/invoice/contract in 20 days.
Now the other party needs to meet your counter-offer, if they want to get paid...or make a counter-offer back to you. Now you are merely in a round of Negotiations. So long as the parties are stuck in negotiations there is Not A Dispute.
As long as you can show an unbroken “paper trail” of on-going negotiations...you keep the process from going to court. There is a Maxum of Law which basically states, the party who leaves the battlefield first loses.
I hope this helps you understand the power of the Conditional Acceptance and why I always include one in all claims against me.
There other post I have is located as follows: Criminal Proceedings--> Trial ? What is the purpose for going to court.