What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? California (CA)
Using Jane Doe for my GF's name.
Trying to keep as much personal info out of this as possible. Here's the premise...Someone came to our house to serve papers for my girlfriend...pounding on the door yelling delivery and kept pounding. I frantically took care of the dogs as they go crazy when people knock on the door, let alone pound and scream, I threw on a shirt and ran down to the door to open and immediately had some dude with a badge shoving papers in my face.
I don't remember the conversation word for word as my brain was still trying to figure out what was going on.
He asked if Jane Doe was home and I said "No, she isn't here", so he gave me the papers and said they were for her. I took them. I don't recall if I signed anything. As he was walking away he asked for my name, which I told him my first name. I was reading the papers and he asked me some other question and I just kind of shooed him away saying "yeah yeah". After he left I realized he had asked me if I had the "same last name?". Which it isn't...But probably doesn't really matter.
The papers are for a debt being collected from my GF, it's for around $2,000, a debt she was not aware of as the bank it is from she had never opened an account with. The problem is, we have no way of proving that it isn't her debt. She doesn't have any evidence that she did not live at the address it was opened with at the time it was opened. When we try to call the bank to get maybe a print out of the charges to the card or application information, they won't give us any information about the account since it is now owned by the debt collector. When we call the debt collector they told us they can't give us any information since papers were served. The only people we haven't called is the law group representing the debt collector. But we are too afraid of calling the law group because we don't want to say anything that could be used against us. We believe we know who opened the account, but again, no evidence, and I don't want to reveal much more information than that publicly online.
They served the papers on Feb 17th, and the paperwork says she has 30 days to respond to the court. Assuming they count the 17th as day one, that means she has till Mar 18th, and if the courts are closed on the weekend, then I would guess that means she has till the 17th??
Neither of us have any experience at all whatsoever with this sort of thing and it's certainly unexpected.
I am going to read through other posts to look at the advice that has been given to similar questions, but I am posting this as well in case there is any case specific information that would be beneficial to us.
To be honest, I don't even know what to ask because we don't even know where to start.
Using Jane Doe for my GF's name.
Trying to keep as much personal info out of this as possible. Here's the premise...Someone came to our house to serve papers for my girlfriend...pounding on the door yelling delivery and kept pounding. I frantically took care of the dogs as they go crazy when people knock on the door, let alone pound and scream, I threw on a shirt and ran down to the door to open and immediately had some dude with a badge shoving papers in my face.
I don't remember the conversation word for word as my brain was still trying to figure out what was going on.
He asked if Jane Doe was home and I said "No, she isn't here", so he gave me the papers and said they were for her. I took them. I don't recall if I signed anything. As he was walking away he asked for my name, which I told him my first name. I was reading the papers and he asked me some other question and I just kind of shooed him away saying "yeah yeah". After he left I realized he had asked me if I had the "same last name?". Which it isn't...But probably doesn't really matter.
The papers are for a debt being collected from my GF, it's for around $2,000, a debt she was not aware of as the bank it is from she had never opened an account with. The problem is, we have no way of proving that it isn't her debt. She doesn't have any evidence that she did not live at the address it was opened with at the time it was opened. When we try to call the bank to get maybe a print out of the charges to the card or application information, they won't give us any information about the account since it is now owned by the debt collector. When we call the debt collector they told us they can't give us any information since papers were served. The only people we haven't called is the law group representing the debt collector. But we are too afraid of calling the law group because we don't want to say anything that could be used against us. We believe we know who opened the account, but again, no evidence, and I don't want to reveal much more information than that publicly online.
They served the papers on Feb 17th, and the paperwork says she has 30 days to respond to the court. Assuming they count the 17th as day one, that means she has till Mar 18th, and if the courts are closed on the weekend, then I would guess that means she has till the 17th??
Neither of us have any experience at all whatsoever with this sort of thing and it's certainly unexpected.
I am going to read through other posts to look at the advice that has been given to similar questions, but I am posting this as well in case there is any case specific information that would be beneficial to us.
To be honest, I don't even know what to ask because we don't even know where to start.
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