What is the effect of the fact that a defendant's failure to file a timely answer was due to his father's dying illness?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Woods, 6 Cal.App.4th 846, 7 Cal.Rptr.2d 886 (Cal. App. 1992):
7 Thus, for example, in Bellm v. Bellia, supra, 150 Cal.App.3d 1036, 198 Cal.Rptr. 389, the court found it understandable but legally irrelevant that the defendant's failure to file a timely answer was occasioned by his distraction over the fact that his father was dying of cancer.
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