Where do I start????

I would get in touch with your local court house to see if a petition or judgement has been filed in your husbands or your name just in case. If so then you, I believe, have the right to see who and where its from, etc. You only have so many days after a judgement is filed to do this so I would call first thing Monday am. Also, some one else with more advise should be along shortly.

thanks,

I'm not positive but I think I read you have 30 days to respond.

hiya--

First thing to do is to check with the court itself, and make sure that you were actually sued. If you were not, you then could have a case for action against whoever put that in the paper.

Second, you need to check the laws in your state--actually, you need to check what is known as the 'rules of civil procedure'. Specifically, you are looking for the laws relating to what is acceptable service of a summons. It is possible that you were not properly served in this case, and if so, you can have it thrown out on that grounds. you need to know exactly how they are required by law to serve you notice. If they did not follow the law, case closed.

for future reference, the do not call list will not help you in this case--collections calls are not sales solicitations, and CA's are not bound by the DNC list in any way.