Questão jurídica principal
Whether the irregular service of the summons to pay could be annulled and re-served after the debtor’s lawyer received a copy.
Decisão extraída
Once the debtor’s representative had actually received the summons and could protect the debtor’s rights, a fresh service would have added nothing; the office therefore lacked grounds to annul the first notification and order a new one.
Fundamentação extraída
An irregular service is not absolutely void if the act nevertheless reached the pursued debtor. The time limits for complaint and opposition run from actual knowledge. A renewed service is only justified if the debtor has a protected interest, which was absent here.