请各位大佬和房东们走过路过的帮我们出出主意

房客去年搬走，造成一些damage。我们扣了她一些deposit, about $900, half of the deposit. 有一个房间被涂得乱七八糟，完全需要重新paint, other rooms also a lot of holes to patch. She only lived for two years. She also had a dog without our approval. The real hard wood floor in one place of living room翘起来，可能caused by the dog's pee. The laminate floor in her daughter's room was also bumped up probably due to the water damage. We send her the invoices and pictures before and after.  Then after 5 month, she asked a lawyer sending us a letter to request us to return back her $1500 of deposit. It seems that she did not tell her lawyer that we already returned $900 more deposit to her and herself chose not to cash out.  We did not response the lawyer's request. Two days ago, we searched our trial time for a traffic violation and accidently found out that the lawyer filed a small claim to use about three months ago which was one year after the tenant moved out. We did not received any paper.  Then we found the lawyer filed with a wrong address, the wrong house number which caused us not receiving any paper. Our question is whether we need to go to court to correct the address, or we just ignore the claim since we have not received any paper/document. Any bad consequence if we ignore the claim since we never received any paper? Will the judge make a decision without confirmation that we received the information of the claim? 请大家帮忙集思广益。谢谢。

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• 到法坛也去发一下吧。 -DD2020- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/07/2022 postreply 06:27:17

• 好的，谢谢 -Novice- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/07/2022 postreply 06:30:39

• go to the court. The litigation will be vacated because of -borisg- ♂ (56 bytes) () 11/07/2022 postreply 06:32:32

• Can we do by ourself or we have to have a lawyer? -Novice- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/07/2022 postreply 06:38:23

• I always recommend to have a lawyer first time you go to cou -borisg- ♂ (15 bytes) () 11/07/2022 postreply 06:43:49

• small claim, no lawyer allowed in some state. -柠檬椰子汁- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/07/2022 postreply 07:07:43

• 律师只要根据租约上的mailing address 立案，基本就程序没错。 -MrsKwok- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/07/2022 postreply 06:47:51

• But the lawyer filed with a wrong address. -Novice- ♀ (125 bytes) () 11/07/2022 postreply 06:51:28

• 可以先去法庭问问怎么处理这种状况 -MrsKwok- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/07/2022 postreply 06:56:47

• was the trial already over? -柠檬椰子汁- ♂ (1026 bytes) () 11/07/2022 postreply 07:06:00

• 柠檬大侠说的真好！ -DelightFish- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/07/2022 postreply 07:40:37

• 几百块钱是不会有律师干的，SmallClaimCourt也不允许律师。去法庭把你的case具体情况弄清楚，再来问 -位酷哥- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/07/2022 postreply 07:23:57

• Thank you all for the sugguestion. -Novice- ♀ (76 bytes) () 11/07/2022 postreply 07:31:39

• Be aware of one thing -柠檬椰子汁- ♂ (328 bytes) () 11/07/2022 postreply 07:36:53

• Thank you very much. -Novice- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/07/2022 postreply 09:14:01

• 最好去法庭查清是否错过出庭时间缺席审判。没到开庭日自己到时去申辩。准备好规定时间内处理了押金的证据。开庭前还有调解。 -IEbird- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/07/2022 postreply 07:43:06

• Thank you. -Novice- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/07/2022 postreply 09:36:04