For improper service where law firm didn't follow the protocol to notify the defendant properly, how can I handle the civil suit

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1. Licensed in IL

   

   Alan Brinkmeier

   Chicago State, Local, and Municipal Law Attorney

   Contributor Level 20

   Answered January 23, 2013 11:35. Well, for example if this a a credit card debt your contract may have waived service and submitted you to CA court jurisdiction when you signed up.
   
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2. Licensed in IL

   

   Stephen Messutta

   Wilmette Real Estate Attorney

   Contributor Level 16

   Answered January 25, 2013 09:48. You really need to address this question to a California attorney. If you were not served properly in most states judgments are void or voidable but you will have to go to the state court where the judgments were entered to undo them, and the procedures should be statutory. What you want to watch out for is the registry of the judgments here in Illinois because that will complicate things and could require action in both California and Illinois.

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