In re A.B.D.

WYNN, Judge.

Civil Procedure Rule 4 required, at the time this action was instituted, that service of process be effectuated within thirty days of the issuance of a summons. N.C. Gen.Stat. § 1-1A, Rule 4 (1999). Where service does not occur within the required period and an endorsement, extension, or alias/pluries summons is not acquired within ninety days of the summons' issuance, the action is discontinued, the trial court lacks jurisdiction, and any judgment rendered is void. Cole v. Cole, 37 N.C.App. 737, 738, 247 S.E.2d 16, 17 (1978). In the case sub judice, Respondent contends that…