Sued by Neuheisel Law Firm? Here's Help.
You have about 30 days from the day you were served to file a written response, and that's usually enough time.
Miss that deadline and the plaintiff can take a default judgment against you. Respond, and whoever they're filing for has to prove the case, which is harder than it sounds. Here's how, and how I can help.
Here's the first thing to know about the Neuheisel Law Firm. It doesn't exist anymore. Neuheisel was an Arizona-based collection firm with a Sacramento office that filed consumer collection suits all over California, overwhelmingly for the debt buyer CACH, LLC. It shut down in early 2017, around the time CACH's corporate parent went through bankruptcy and CACH's accounts moved to Resurgent Capital Services.
So if paperwork with Neuheisel's name on it is in your life today, you're probably dealing with the past. Maybe an old lawsuit, maybe an old default judgment that's now being enforced or was sold along with the account. Old collection paper raises its own questions. Who owns the judgment now, whether it was renewed on time, whether the underlying service was ever proper. Those are exactly the kind of questions worth having looked at before you pay anyone anything.
And if someone is actively contacting you today about a Neuheisel case, make them identify themselves and their authority in writing. A defunct firm can't be collecting anything, so whoever is calling stands in someone else's shoes, and they have to be able to prove whose.
Use the thirty days
From the day you're served, you generally have thirty days to file a written response with the court. If nothing gets filed, the plaintiff can ask for an automatic judgment against you (called a default judgment), and with a judgment they can levy your bank account, meaning they take the money directly, garnish your wages if you have a job, or put a lien on your house. Responding is what makes everything above matter, because a defended case is where the proof gets tested.
Two reads that will help. Here's how to calculate your deadline, which is more particular than people expect. And the top five mistakes people make when they get sued is five minutes well spent before you decide anything.
Let it be my problem
If you'd rather hand this off, the consultation is free, it takes fifteen minutes, and you speak with me directly. No intake screener, no telemarketer. Although the outcome can't be guaranteed, you can offload the process, so you know that whatever can be done is being done while you go about the other things in your life. It's sort of like the alarm clock by your bed. Once it's set, your brain stops holding the time, because that's taken care of. Let me take care of this.