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If a LIS PENDENS is filed but papers are never served to the defendant, what happens? Is the case automatically dismissed after a certain amount of time if the plaintiff doesn't follow up? My lawyer says not to do anything until I'm 'officially served.'
The original complaint was filed in August 2003 for an injunction by the owner of a low income housing apartment building next door to my house. Before he filed, he sent the papers to every address I had used in the last 5 years. I was staying at the house in question. He claims he has tried to serve me twice. Among other things, he says the house was previously being used for drugs and prostitution. The police records show there was one arrest 5 years ago, I bought the house last year. He also says the alley behind my house is over grown but it's the responsibility of the town to take care of it and they don't care what it looks like and it has looked like that for at least the last 20 years. He adds other stupid things in the complaint that I can prove are not true.
When my lawyer talked to him, the jerk said to make him an offer to make it go away. That sounds like blackmail to me but I guess to a lawyer it's settlement negotiations. The man suing me is a lawyer.
I keep checking on line to see if anything else has been filed or done on this case, nothing so far.
So if he doesn't pursue it anymore does it get dropped by the court?
If a LIS PENDENS is filed but papers are never served to the defendant, what happens? Is the case automatically dismissed after a certain amount of time if the plaintiff doesn't follow up? My lawyer says not to do anything until I'm 'officially served.'
The original complaint was filed in August 2003 for an injunction by the owner of a low income housing apartment building next door to my house. Before he filed, he sent the papers to every address I had used in the last 5 years. I was staying at the house in question. He claims he has tried to serve me twice. Among other things, he says the house was previously being used for drugs and prostitution. The police records show there was one arrest 5 years ago, I bought the house last year. He also says the alley behind my house is over grown but it's the responsibility of the town to take care of it and they don't care what it looks like and it has looked like that for at least the last 20 years. He adds other stupid things in the complaint that I can prove are not true.
When my lawyer talked to him, the jerk said to make him an offer to make it go away. That sounds like blackmail to me but I guess to a lawyer it's settlement negotiations. The man suing me is a lawyer.
I keep checking on line to see if anything else has been filed or done on this case, nothing so far.
So if he doesn't pursue it anymore does it get dropped by the court?