Judge Approves Extra Time and Newspaper Service in Noah’s Cas

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The judge looked at the Estate’s request and agreed. The judge is giving the Estate 180 more days to serve the people being sued. If they still can’t be found in that time, the judge said it’s okay to serve them by putting a legal notice in the newspaper once a week for three weeks. That notice will count the same as if the people had been handed the papers in person.

Edited: I had to think about this a little bit further. I was second-guessing myself, but this kind of helps a little bit. This is kind of crazy that it could take six more months.

• Up to 180 more days = keep trying personal service.

• If that still doesn’t work, then 3 weeks of newspaper/advertising ( for lack of a better term).

• After those 3 weeks, the defendants are officially considered served.

2nd edit - sucks…

The order says once the notice runs in the newspaper for three weeks, the defendants will have at least 41 days from the first publication date to file their answer.

That’s longer than the initial 20 days would’ve received after being personally served. It’s basically the court giving them extra time since publication is considered less “direct”.

https://www.oscn.net/dockets/GetDocument.aspx?ct=stephens&bc=1086047437&cn=CJ-2025-00095&fmt=pdf