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I was evicted in 2018, I went to court and they entered judgement against me, and the balance due went to collections. Now almost 3 years later I'm being served with more paperwork, specifically an alias summons. I have no idea what that means, or why I'm being served after I thought this was closed. I really need to know what I'm supposed to do with it, and if I need to be shopping for an attorney or not.
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This is rather interesting. First, an alias summons means that your former landlord tried to serve but was unsuccessful. A new summons had to be issued since the first summons was not successfully served.
What makes this interesting, is that you said you went to court and they entered jugdement against you. It appears you may not have been properly served with the first summons and the judgement could have been vacated. You need to pull up your court docket, on-line, to see if the judgement was vacated. If so, they are starting from scratch.
The next question, if your case has been vacated, are you past the statute of limitations? You will need to do a little research in order to make a sound decision as how to proceed.
Answered on Feb 15th, 2021 at 11:00 AM