Legal Question in Family Law in California

If your wife lived in CA for six months before filing, CA has jurisdiction. You need to file a response immediately or the default will be entered. Until six months have passed since filing the action, though, a default judgment cannot be entered. So if necessary you will have time to get the default set aside if it has already been entered. You can find the form to file a response online at http://courtinfo.ca.gov. Get it filed immediately. You can have it filed same-day or next day for a fairly reasonable amount by using http://www.onelegal.com Depending on the county you are in, you may even be able to direct fax it to the court, though most counties don't allow that. Once you get the response on file, things slow down a bit and you can get things figured out. Since you claim never to have received the petition, you could also file a motion to quash service instead. But you would need an attorney in California to do that for you; doing it yourself is possible, but really hard to do right and you would not want to fail on that one.