Legal Question in Real Estate Law in California

Re: UD trial

If you have an attorney, why are you asking LawGuru?

As to your first question, I'm not sure what you're asking. If your tenant is filing a motion to quash a service of process, the tenant will have to pay the motion filing fee at the time of filing, unless the tenant is allowed to proceed in forma pauperis (unable to pay).

Your attorney can appear at the trial and make legal arguments on your behalf, but probably cannot testify as to facts. The need for a competent witness at a UD trial will depend upon what kind of a defense the tenant is making and what the tenant says in court. I'd say in an opposed (defended) UD case it is risky for the lawyer to appear in court without someone competent to testify as to the facts also being present.....but I am not a UD specialist, so ask this question of your own lawyer and follow his or her advice.