I Was Sued—and This Is How I Fought Back

Added: 2026-05-30

[00:00:00]Okay, so I was recently served a lawsuit and one of the things I wanted to walk you through is what happens if you're served a lawsuit so that you're not panicking thinking that you have to spend a fortune on an attorney and what your very first step might be if anything like this ever happens to you.

[00:00:15]So just a little bit of a backstory about maybe 2 years ago I had a lease on a unit. I'll call it the crusty unit because it was literally a crusty office space unit in a building that was probably built in maybe the 50s or something and it used to be an old motel back in the day like one of those horseshoe shaped motels and so they converted it into I guess little individual offices over time and so when I moved in I did not realize but the internet and phone service just simply was not going to happen. I mean there was a broken pipe underneath the ground behind the unit that the landlord refused to fix and I was unable to get any adequate internet or phone service there which I obviously need to be able to run a business. And so after going back with the landlord over the course of maybe 6 months I finally decided you know what I need to pull the plug on this and go get a unit in a real office building instead of wasting my time in this old crusty you know former motel.

[00:01:13]So I ended up leaving.

[00:01:15]And so I ended up leaving and then within about a couple months after that I was I was shocked to find that I was being sued and so one of the first things that ends up happening is that people panic. So if you have creditors or even your neighbor or somebody decides to sue you then you start to panic you're thinking oh shoot this is going to cost me a ton of money to hire an attorney.

[00:01:37]I was also just sued for another issue in reference to my dad's condo. So I'm actually entitled to my dad's condo.

[00:01:46]There was some water damage in the unit below and it had nothing to do with my dad in fact he had just closed escrow like 3 weeks before and they ended up you know deciding that they wanted to remodel and renovate their entire unit on somebody else's dime, probably the low-hanging fruit, which is the new dude in the building.

[00:02:04]So, that would have been my dad, and so they blamed all this water damage on my dad when it never actually came from him at all. It came from a center wall between the unit downstairs and the neighbor's unit next door, which had nothing to do with my dad at all. So, if anything, it would have been the HOA's problem because they were supposed to be maintaining the inner walls. And again, I was sued for that as well. And this all happened pretty much at the same time. I'm just like, "What is going on with all these lawsuits?"

[00:02:30]And so, I don't think anybody likes a lawsuit.

[00:02:33]And so, one of the things that I learned over the years, and I think I learned this because I went through a nasty divorce. This would have been husband number two. We'll just call him deadbeat because that's essentially what he is.

[00:02:46]And so, when I divorced deadbeat cuz he never wanted to get a job, never wanted to get off of his ass, and never wanted to stop playing video games and smoking weed, and actually wanted to get a job.

[00:02:55]So, they ended up deciding, you know, "Screw this. I'm not doing this anymore."

[00:02:59]So, it was literally a battle in court for many years for custody as well as for, you know, spousal support, child support. I was paying him over $5,000 in both child support and spousal support per month.

[00:03:10]And on top of that, he had the audacity to run out and buy a BMW and expect that I was going to be making that car payment, too. Think again, mofo, cuz that wasn't going to be happening. So, what ended up happening was I had to end up going back to court to overturn the child support for the child he never saw because the child support alone was $770 a month. And I'm like, "Why am I paying just 770 a month on top of the spousal support for a child he never sees?" And so, I ended up having pretty much everything overturned. And I had to do it by defending myself because I couldn't realistically go into court saying, you know, "Hey, your honor, here's my high-priced attorney. I'm going to have all this stuff overturned because I'm claiming I can't afford this. You know, I can't afford to pay any of this.

[00:03:53]I had to go in myself because I was going to be a pro se, you know, I was going to be a pro se defendant and I was going to say, "Hey, I can't afford this anymore. Look, I don't even have an attorney."

[00:04:03]And so, I'm defending myself. And so, how did I do it?

[00:04:07]Well, I actually learned everything I know about defending myself from an online course which is run by a Florida licensed attorney at neverloseincourt.com. In fact, you can get the free flowchart to show you exactly how the whole process works from start to finish. It's all on one piece of paper on exactly how the whole process works starting with filing motions to try to get the case dismissed before you file the answer. So, before you file an answer, you might want to consider the motions to dismiss and filing those first. That's what he teaches in that online course.

[00:04:41]And so, I learned how to defend myself really, really well from being married to deadbeat, okay?

[00:04:49]And so, that's when I learned that I can be I don't want to say brazen, but I can be fearless when it comes to the court process because as long as I filed the paperwork that emulates that of that particular district court, then they have to accept my filings and read my filings and, you know, rule on those filings based on what the judge decides based on cited case law and, you know, statutes and so forth. Now, what's cool about today is back then we didn't have chat GPT, you know, Claude, Grok, or any of these online AI based software to show you exactly what the cited case law, what the what the statutes are, what all that stuff is. We didn't have any of that back then.

[00:05:28]So, I had to like learn how to do legal research which was very difficult for me to do especially since I was running a full-time business, trying to single-handedly raise a young girl, and I just didn't have the time.

[00:05:40]So, today, fast forward to today, you actually have access to all these statutes, all these case all this case law that could support your case and you can have it at your fingertips instantly when you are developing your own motion to file when you're served with a lawsuit. So, for those of you that are served lawsuits and you're starting to panic and you're like, what do I do? What is the best and easiest way to get out of it? Well, I strongly urge you if you do not have money for an attorney, which many of you do not, then you need to go to never lose in court.com down below and you need to take a look at the free flow chart at least just to see how the whole court process works. And I strongly urge you to take that course. I mean, some people complain that it's they're like, Monica, I don't have the money for the course. It's like, okay, but do you have the money for a 20-year wage garnishment? Because that will that's likely what's about to happen to you if you don't defend yourself and if you lose your court case or God forbid don't even show up to court.

[00:06:36]That's an automatic default judgment against you just for being a bonehead and not showing up to court. So, you do need to learn how to adequately defend yourself cuz I have people that are penny wise, pound foolish. Well, I don't want to pay the money for the course.

[00:06:48]Okay, well then then pay a 20-year wage garnishment instead and think that that's going to be cheaper cuz it's not.

[00:06:54]So, if a creditor is suing you, if your neighbor's suing you, if anybody's suing you or maybe you're going through some kind of custody battle or maybe you want to sue somebody else and you don't have the money for a high-priced attorney you can do it through the same process. It's going to be kind of a reverse engineer process but you can start with never lose in court.com where you can adequately and successfully file a lawsuit against someone as a plaintiff and you can win.

[00:07:21]And so, as long as you understand the the laws, as long as you understand the cases that you can reference, as long as you understand the statutes you can reference both federally and in your state, which again with the power of AI today, you can get access to all of these different things to put into your filings instantly.

[00:07:40]And so, again, don't panic if you are sued.

[00:07:45]Please note that you can defend yourself and you can defend yourself adequately.

[00:07:48]So, you're probably wondering, well, what happened to these lawsuits?

[00:07:51]One lawsuit still pending, the one that's with my dad. Uh the what ended up finally happening was that, you know, you may or may not know it, but your insurance company, if you're sued on any property you own, your insurance company is supposed to provide you counsel to, you know, basically defend you on your behalf as long as you have a valid insurance policy. So, they ended up stepping in on the court case, but in the initial beginning, when I was first served, I was fighting the lawsuit on my own, and I always do this as kind of like my go-to whenever I'm served with any lawsuit.

[00:08:22]And so, the second I'm served with the lawsuit, I file a motion to to dismiss for improper service or an inadequate service or whatever I can do as far as targeting the service. I always do that.

[00:08:32]In fact, you'll learn that in the course with that Florida licensed attorney at neverloseincourt.com.

[00:08:38]He tells you the same thing. You go after the service first to make sure if it's not an adequate service or if they served somebody else or served you at a different address or served your neighbor, whatever the case may be, that might be considered an inadequate service in your state, which every state law is going to be different regarding service.

[00:08:55]And so, you target service first. If the service was fair and square, you're standing in, you know, your front driveway and you're washing your car or watering your flowers or whatever, and a process server fair and square pops you with a service, that's probably considered a fair and square service, which is going to be a legal service. And so, now, the next set of motions you'll consider would be other things. Like, for example, motion to dismiss for lack of standing, uh motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim. There are different things you can file motion to dismiss in reference to that case. The idea is to file as many motions, he calls it the flurry of motions, to where as you don't have to file an answer because he whole point is to get the lawsuit thrown out long before an answer is even due.

[00:09:41]Most people just run and file the answer. It's like, well, by then it's too late to file your motions. So, you want to file pack in your motions before filing an answer. So, that's what I would do in any case is to just start targeting the service itself, if the service was adequate or legal, then start targeting the lawsuit itself. And with all the tools that are at your fingertips, all you need to do is literally emulate the filing that was given to you by the process server or by the court record, the documents, the lawsuit, the complaint that you got.

[00:10:14]So, exactly how it's laid out on that page, including the district it's in, including where it's where the case number is located, including, you know, the plaintiff, the defendant, exactly how that's listed, including the addresses at the top. All that stuff, exactly the way it is laid out on that page is exactly how your response will be. Your motions will emulate and mimic exactly what you received.

[00:10:36]And so, your response, you're basically going to have in the little section off to the right, you know, motion to dismiss for say lack of standing or motion to dismiss for improper service or motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim.

[00:10:49]And the coolest thing about like AI-based software platforms like ChatGPT, they'll give you ideas on exactly what to put, what possibilities you have for different motions to dismiss.

[00:11:00]And you'll just start the process of basically antagonizing you know, the plaintiff, the plaintiff's attorney, racking up their legal bill.

[00:11:08]So, then that way maybe they'll just decide, "Hey, I'm already in this $15,000. Maybe I don't want to even go after this because this is already a pain in the ass.

[00:11:17]He or she is just saying that they're not served and 6 months has gone by and we still can't get a process a process server out there to do it adequately.

[00:11:25]So, maybe we'll just get rid of the case."

[00:11:27]It literally took them 6 months after they filed the case to get me served and it wasn't even it wasn't even a service it was a service through the state or something like that. And so what ended up happening was the attorneys from the insurance company ended up taking the service for me on my behalf cuz I never actually was properly served ever in that case.

[00:11:48]And so as far as the landlord went, we ended up doing a settlement. I actually did another video on what ended up happening after the settlement, but the short of it is that after the settlement she took a $5,000 settlement and she signed on it fair and square with her attorney and with her husband and she received the $5,000 as the settlement and then 4 months later after she realized that she was never going to rent out her raggedy ass unit to anybody cuz it's so crusty and gross and disgusting that she ended up filing a complaint with the California State Bar.

[00:12:20]Now mind you, I'm in the state of Florida, but the attorney that I had help me with this whole settlement, he's in California cuz at the time I was going back and forth between California trying to, you know, tie up some loose ends.

[00:12:32]And so what ended up happening was I ended up using him cuz I'd used him over the years for different, you know, cease and desist letters, demand letters, etc. for my business and I've been using him from around like 2018, 2019, somewhere in there.

[00:12:46]And so you know, I'd been using him all these years and I'm like, well he can do a settlement, that's easy. So fast forward to 4 months after the settlement, she decides she's going to file a complaint with the California State Bar saying that I'm the attorney, that I'm acting as the attorney. wait, what? What just happened here? So I have this woman who calls me on the phone from the California State Bar. I thought her name was Maria. She barely spoke English, which by the way I'm thinking, how is it that Americans that speak perfect English can't get these jobs at the California State Bar, but somebody who doesn't speak any English in the United States of America is handling these types of things? Like what is really going on? Sorry sorry seems racist, but you know, it's just how I feel. It's like how is it that you're going to I mean, if you could barely speak English, you could probably barely read English, which probably means that everything that you thought was a fact was in fact not a fact at all, which ended up happening to be the case in my situation, where she ended up calling the local yokels, you know, the Mayberry boys out here in Bay County, Florida, and they ended up going to my house, raiding my house. Yes, over this complaint that from California, raiding my Florida house because she had them convinced that I was this lawyer. Now, here is what ended up happening. This lawyer turned out to be disbarred. I did not know that.

[00:14:08]And so, since they could not charge the California state former state bar, you know, attorney, they couldn't charge him cuz he was in California, they decided to charge me with being him, which was the most absurd thing ever. Now, they finally dropped the case because I actually had no case. That's just the reality of the situation.

[00:14:28]But that's just it just goes to show you like all the weird absurd things that are happening in today's day and age. It's like it's hard to keep up with it, but needless to say, I went through hell with just that lawsuit. Not only the lawsuit with the stupid woman with the crusty ass old motel for the office unit, but you know, also then the aftermath, all the criminal stuff I had to deal with for the last 6 months because she's so vindictive and manipulating that she decided she wanted to file a false report with the California State Bar, and because they're so, I don't know, I don't know if they're just bored or just malicious.

[00:15:03]I could tell you California, there are a bunch of malicious people out there that work in any kind of bureaucratic, you know, political/statewide office. They are very incredibly vicious. I am still to this day dealing with the California State Franchise Tax Board who claims I owe them taxes on, wait for it, a Florida state company, okay? I've had a Florida state company since 2021 that I've completely now suspended cuz I don't want to deal with it at all.

[00:15:30]But they're still trying to charge me taxes in the state of California for a company that was never operating in the state of California. It was always a Florida state company from day one. That is again, just what a malicious bunch of individuals that work for the government in California are. So, you had yet another one at the California State Bar that to yet again be part of the rest of the malicious bunch, which is typical in California, and then go after me because they again, they couldn't charge the disbarred attorney.

[00:16:00]So, then they're like, well, how do we charge somebody for this case cuz we're so hard up to charge people with stuff, I guess, these days to get our numbers up for arrests. So, let's just say, wait for it, she was the attorney. Let's do that. Let's just say she was the attorney instead because we cannot charge him cuz he's in California.

[00:16:18]And that's how it all happened.

[00:16:19]>> [laughter] >> So, I still I still cannot believe it that a civil case turned into a criminal case that was ultimately dropped. But again, that's just the sign of the times that we're in today. I mean, I don't know what's going on, but that's just how it is.

[00:16:34]>> [snorts] >> So, I know it's absurd and it's ridiculous in many cases. If you have creditors that have filed lawsuits against you, whatever, do not panic. Do not panic.

[00:16:42]Just go to neverloseincourt.com. At least get that free flowchart so that you understand how the process works before you file an answer or anything like that so you understand what you're up against, what you can do to potentially defend yourself. And yes, you can legally defend yourself in the court of law as a pro se defendant. And so, if you don't have the money for a lawyer, you better do something. And if you're going to say, well, Monica, I can't afford the 200 and something dollars for the course, well, then maybe you can afford the 20-year wage garnishment, you know, or the lien on your property or or whatever the aftermath and the judgment is going to look like in your life. And maybe you can afford that instead. I mean, I don't know. A lot of people are just some simply penny wise, pound foolish, which may be this the reason why you're in the situation that you're in. So, I hope that little story kind of helped you and maybe gave you a boost. You do have the ability to defend yourself, turn the tables on your creditors, or anybody who's suing you, and you can win.

[00:17:36]I don't care if you have a dispute when it comes to spousal support, or you have a dispute with family court, or you have a dispute with a creditor. I don't care what it is. You can literally turn the tables, and you can win every single time. But, you have to start with neverlosingcourt.com. Start there, at least get the free flow chart, and you'll understand what you're up against, and what you have to do at that point. I hope that you found that this was useful. If so, give me a nice thumbs up, subscribe to my channel, drop some comments down below. This is Monica Main signing off, and I will see you in the next video.