§3004 Service of process; enforcement; notice

Summary

Papers like complaints, notices, writs, or other court orders in cases under this chapter must be served under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure unless the chapter says otherwise. A writ, order, judgment, or similar process filed here can be served anywhere in the United States, and the court that issued it can enforce it no matter where the person was served. If the debtor asks within 20 days after getting the notice described in section 3101(d) or 3202(b), the case must be moved to the federal district court where the debtor lives. A lawyer for the United States must, at a reasonable time but no later than when a prejudgment or postjudgment remedy starts, try to give the debtor and anyone the United States reasonably thinks has the property a copy of the application for the remedy, the order that grants it, and the notice required by section 3101(d) or 3202(b).