Legal Question in Civil Litigation in California

I was never served though they say that I was.

I was being sued by a woman whose son attempted to run across a traffic filled street and instead, ran right into the side of my car. He claimed that he was fine and just wanted to continue on to school, and he was also cleared by the paramedics. He and his mother both refused to go to the hospital. I gave her my phone number because I felt that it was the right thing to do. A little over a year later I got a call from an attorney telling me that I was being sued. He then faxed me a copy of a request for entry of a judgement against me along with a paper signed by someone else claiming that he attempted to serve me on three different occasions, several months earlier. The server had also signed a paper swearing that he eventually left the papers with a relative who answered my door, and in my supposed absence, accepted the papers from him. This is absolutely not true, not to mention the fact that I have no relatives at all that would have been in my home other than my three children who are all under the age of 13, and never left alone. I have spoken with an attorney who has made me feel like there is nothing I can do. I have never received any papers. Can I do anything?

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