If you accept service and fail to appear, you have accepted the jurisdiction and not responded. A default ruling is likely. Failed service and no notification is grounds to get a default judgment rescinded. At the rescission hearing, if it happens which is not likely, you can argue lack of jurisdiction, lack of residency and all those other nice things. Remember OP said daughter was filing not the state gov't.




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Accepting service submits you to their jurisdiction?


(No snark - just completely not getting why accepting service equates to submitting to jurisdiction. Remember spinny?)

Accepting service enables you to file for dismissal based upon lack of jurisdiction. Refusing service can lead to a default ruling.