Practice question
Section3 supplies a proper venue for a status action against an absent nonresident. Counsel says selecting that venue automatically dispenses with all separate requirements for jurisdiction and service. What is correct?
- Every proper venue automatically supplies personal jurisdiction
- Venue permission does not itself dispense with those separate requirements
- Venue authorizes ignoring all summons rules
- Section3 abolishes due process
- The defendant’s absence validates any service method
Legal references
- 2019 Civil Procedure amendments, Rule4 Sections3–4: https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/am_19-10-20-sc_2019.html
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