How have courts interpreted the liberal construction requirement to construe a notice to include a party who was omitted from the notice entirely?

Some "decisions have applied the liberal construction requirement to construe a notice to include a party who was omitted from the notice entirely." (K.J., supra, 8 Cal.5th at p. 886; see Vibert v. Berger (1966) 64 Cal.2d 65, 68-69 [even if the notice's defect was the result of the "appellant's ignorance" of the technical requirements of appellate procedure, he " 'should not be precluded from securing a review of what all concerned knew he was seeking to have reviewed' " (italics omitted)].) "While the timely filing of a notice of appeal is an absolute jurisdictional

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