Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in California

Hi I am sueing a former landlord and he tried to serve me a counter claim today. I live in the state of California he walked with his process server into my church tonight the process server asked my husband his first name and he said here buddy youve been served. My former landlord was standing next to him and handed my papers to me himself. Is this legal? Can he come into my place of worship and hand me lawsuit papers? Have I been served?


Asked on 3/29/11, 8:20 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys

He is free to do it anywhere he can find you without committing a crime to reach you. Technically, if the landlord handed you the papers, the service on you was not valid, because an interested party cannot serve process. All you are going to do by contesting it, though is waste time. Since all he has to do is have a process server reserve you.

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Answered on 3/30/11, 10:49 pm


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