SquabbleReviews of squabbleapp.com

Response from SquabbleOct 17, 2023

Bejai, On April 24th you submitted your case to us. On April 25th we prepared and filed your court paperwork with the court. The accepted your case on May 10th and you were assigned a case number and court date and time which was June 27th. We immediately submitted your order for service of process on April 25th. Service was attempted 4 times between that order on April 25th and final attempts throughout May. The only remedy to this is to continue to hire process servers which can become more costly. You can also arrange attempts to serve the defendant by your own means. This would involve asking any third party other than yourself to try to locate, serve the paperwork and complete the necessary court affidavit. Unfortunately, this is just one of the complexities of filing a case. Statistically, there is a 50% chance of successfully (and properly) serving a defendant yourself. By using a professional service of process company those chances increase to nearly 80% on average. Some defendants just don't want to be served and will do anything to avoid it. In other cases the defendant has simply relocated which would require you to come up with more creative means to try to locate them first. We are sorry the defendant in your case could not be located.

Response from SquabbleOct 17, 2023

Stacie, While most small claims in California have a statute of limitations of 2 years, your property damage claim has a statute of limitation of 3 years. Additionally, your claim states the incident occurred in March of 2022 which would put you out in front of either of those limitations. Your case was filed and the defendant's registered agent was successfully served. The court accepted your case and provided a court date, time and location (which happened to be a virtual court hearing via Zoom)

Response from SquabbleOct 17, 2023

Jorge, You case was successfully filed and accepted with the court. Once the court accepted your case you were provided a case number, court date and time. In your case it was a virtual court hearing (done via Zoom or similar). I can see your defendant was properly served and I can see our triple check process before filing your case caught an issue with the defendant's address which we were able to communicate with you on and get resolved. Your case was properly filed and the defendant was successfully served. Since this is a court date that has already passed (set for this past August) I am concerned the outcome of your case did not go as hoped. If you have any specific feedback you can provide us in relation to your court filing and service of process to the defendant please let us know!

Response from SquabbleOct 17, 2023

Desmond, You submitted your case to us on March 30th. Your case paperwork was prepared on March 5th and once it was reviewed by our team it was filed and accepted by the court on March 6th and you were assigned a case number with the court. We immediately submitted your order for service of process on March 6th. Service was attempted 4 times between that order on March 6th until the final attempts in April. Unfortunately, if the defendant cannot be located our process server will not be able to complete the service of process. In your jurisdiction the local court does not assign a court date and time until service of process is completed. The reason is because there are cases where the defendant simply cannot be found. The only remedy to this is to continue to hire process servers which can become more costly. You can also arrange attempts to serve the defendant by your own means. This would involve asking any third party other than yourself to try to locate, serve the paperwork and complete the necessary court affidavit. Unfortunately, this is just one of the complexities of filing a case. Statistically, there is a 50% chance of successfully (and properly) serving a defendant yourself. By using a professional service of process company those chances increase to nearly 80% on average. Some defendants just don't want to be served and will do anything to avoid it. In other cases the defendant has simply relocated which would require you to come up with more creative means to try to locate them first. We are sorry the defendant in your case could not be located.

Response from SquabbleOct 17, 2023

Chris, You submitted your case to us on November 16th of last year. We prepared your court paperwork on November 17th and after our team reviewed it we filed it with the courts on November 22nd. Your jurisdiction requires the court filing to by physically filed (versus electronic). The court accepted your case on December 6th and you were assigned a case number. On December 9th we placed your order for service of process (to serve the defendant the paperwork). After several attempts the process server was able to physically serve the defendant on or before December 24th (which is when we received notification). The courts were notified of that successful service on that same day. In your jurisdiction a court date and time is not provided until they receive proper notice accompanied by the proper court affidavits that service of process was completed. The court then communicates directly with you on your court date/time by mail. We don't receive that because we have to file all paperwork on your behalf. Squabble is a service that is intended for people who are unsure how to navigate the overly complex and time consuming small claims legal system themselves. Once you received your court date and time all you need to do is show up. Many cases are won simply because the defendant never shows up. We hope you had the outcome you were looking for on your day in court and we are happy to have helped take care of all of the intricacies for you to get that in place. If you have any feedback on the successful court filing or successful service of process on your case that you feel would be beneficial to us - please let us know!

Response from SquabbleOct 17, 2023

Walter, You submitted your case to us on August 1st. Your case paperwork was prepared on August 8th and once it was reviewed by our team it was filed and accepted by the court on March 8th and March 9th respectively. You were assigned a case number with the court. We submitted your order for service of process on August 15th. Service was attempted 4 times between that order on August 15th until the final attempts in September. Unfortunately, if the defendant cannot be located our process server will not be able to complete the service of process. In your jurisdiction the local court does not assign a court date and time until service of process is completed. The reason is because there are cases where the defendant simply cannot be found. The only remedy to this is to continue to hire process servers which can become more costly. You can also arrange attempts to serve the defendant by your own means. This would involve asking any third party other than yourself to try to locate, serve the paperwork and complete the necessary court affidavit. Unfortunately, this is just one of the complexities of filing a case. Statistically, there is a 50% chance of successfully (and properly) serving a defendant yourself. By using a professional service of process company those chances increase to nearly 80% on average. Some defendants just don't want to be served and will do anything to avoid it. In other cases the defendant has simply relocated which would require you to come up with more creative means to try to locate them first. We are sorry the defendant in your case could not be located.

Response from SquabbleOct 17, 2023

Thanks Kari! We hope you have a successful day in court on November 1st! We look forward to handling all of your future small claims cases! Thank you for using Squabble and taking the time to leave your feedback!

Response from SquabbleOct 17, 2023

Ken, Your case was successfully filed with the court. We forwarded service of process on your case (to serve the defendant the paperwork) to the sheriff's department on October 4th. I am currently reaching out to determine if we can get an update from them on it or if it's something you will have to handle since the case was filed on your behalf. If the sherrif's department is able to successfully serve the defendant the court will assign you a court date and time. Currently, you only have a court case number. Once they assign that court date/time they will mail you that information. I'll respond here once I have a bit more information for you.