{"id":42,"date":"2026-07-12T20:25:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T20:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwp-attorney-pro\/2026\/07\/12\/being-served-is-not-the-emergency-missing-the-response-date-is\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T20:25:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T20:25:27","slug":"being-served-is-not-the-emergency-missing-the-response-date-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwp-attorney-pro\/2026\/07\/12\/being-served-is-not-the-emergency-missing-the-response-date-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Being served is not the emergency. Missing the response date is."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A California response is generally due thirty days after service, and a default judgment is far harder to undo than to avoid.<\/p>\n<p>People put the papers in a drawer. It is understandable and it is the single most expensive thing you can do, because a default judgment can be entered without further notice and then enforced against wages and accounts while you argue about setting it aside.<\/p>\n<p>If you have been served, call an office rather than filling in a contact form. Say the words &#8220;I have been served&#8221; and give the date on the proof of service \u2014 any competent firm will put you through to a lawyer the same day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A California response is generally due thirty days after service, and a default judgment is far harder to undo than to avoid.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-litigation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwp-attorney-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwp-attorney-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwp-attorney-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwp-attorney-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwp-attorney-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwp-attorney-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwp-attorney-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwp-attorney-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwp-attorney-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwp-attorney-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}