Very true, Robert. I just want to clarify that there is nothing to stop an abstractor from attempting to sue a nonresident defendant in the abstractor's state of citizenship. However, the threshold issue would be the jurisdiction of the court over the person of the defendant as would be tested by the defendant's motion to dismiss. In the absence of that motion the defendant is deemed to have submitted to the jurisdiction of the court. Sometimes you get a stupid defendant that overlooks the motion.My point is why go to the trouble and expense of further complicating a fairly straight forward contract collection case with cumbersome jurisdictional and constitutional issues in which there is a fair degree of certainty of dismissal. The court's look very carefully at challenges to their jurisdiction. Trial court judges do not like being reversed on appeal.
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