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<p class="MsoNormal">Good morning, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Does anybody know of any case law or legal authority relevant to the issue of when a responsive pleading at a Show Cause Hearing must be filed and served?
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 2/14/22, we had a UD hearing for nonpayment of rent. NWJP attorney – with whom I had been in communication throughout the previous week – served me at the hearing with her Answer and a Motion to Dismiss, and argued for a continuance
based on her doing so. (Never again will I put the Answer deadline on the date of the hearing!) I have arguments against the continuance, and did object, but my primary beef is as follows:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Today the UD continuance was held. NWJP attorney produces an unfiled Opposition to Attorney Fees and Motion for Stay and serves it on me and asks for a continuance on that basis. I objected on improper and untimely service. NWJP attorney
argued that she was timely serving me, because the statute allows Tenant to answer on the date of the Show Cause Hearing. I said Tenant had answered already at the Show Cause two weeks ago, and this was a ploy to buy more time and punish my client.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The judge continued two weeks.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I want to know if I have a valid argument that service was improper.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Penny for your thoughts. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#0B242C">Brian H. Andrews, Attorney at Law<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#0B242C">Brian H. Andrews, Attorney at Law<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Hawkins Law, PLLC<br>
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