What happend if I don’t open the door

Welcome GHOUSTON---you need to give a little more information for anyone to volunteer some advice. For starters----who is suing you and what does that have to do with opening the door?

And are they serving you at home?

If you are speaking of what happens when a process server or deputy comes to your door to serve you court documents, and you don't open the door....chances are very good that they will tape them to your door and consider you served, unless personal service is required. If personal service is required, they will find you in order to serve the papers, even if it means coming to your workplace to do so.

Lorri is right, please post more information so we can offer you the correct advice. Without knowing what type of legal action you are facing, and for what, it's hard to offer advice.

Some states allow service by publication. If a creditor can show they have tried and exhausted their efforts to serve a person, and such person is concealing themself within the state to evade service of a summons, then they can serve process by publication. Meaning, they will post the summons and court date in the "legel notices" section of a newspaper, and consider yourself served; they can then go through with the trial and obtain a default judgment if you don't show.

which, by the way, would be a whole lot more embarrassing than simply opening the door and having the papers handed to you. Just stating the obvious.