If you have been served with a summons and complaint, you typically have twenty days to file a response with the court. If the plaintiff is unable to serve the defendant (or the defendant is avoiding service), she can ask the court to serve by publishing a notice in a legal newspaper. The summons and complaint must be “served” (personally delivered by a process server) to the defendant. The plaintiff also has the court issue a “summons” that notifies the defendant that he is being sued and needs to defend himself. A “complaint” describes what the plaintiff wants and identifies the “defendant” (the party being sued). To start a civil case, the “plaintiff” (the party suing) files a “complaint” with the court. Learn what to do if you’ve discovered that a “default judgment” was entered against you, which can happen even if you didn’t know you’d been sued and never appeared in court.
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