After SOL is up, can CA still legally collect?

[Flypilot]

Just read something on another forum that sounds troubling...

If a CA attorney has been trying to serve you, can't find you, asked a judge to serve you by news paper notification and was DENIED and then the SOL is up....... can they legally still collect the debt because they were trying to serve you before the SOL was up?

On the other forum one guy said "it may be tolled". What does that mean and can they still legally collect after the SOL is up? :eek:

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[chane]

I think they can legally ATTEMPT to collect the debt after SOL. That doesn't mean you are legally obligated to pay it. And if you bring it to their attention that it's past the SOL, they will probably stop trying to collect, because at that point they realize you are one of the few informed consumers in this world and they will give up.