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The process server services are provided by professionals to serve court papers to the defendant in the case. They do document retrieval, serve legal documents, and file court papers. Their primary job is to serve legal documents to a person involved in a court case or a defendant. Therefore, if you are in need of a process server, you need someone who is professional, organized, keen on privacy, and dependable.
Knocking on the door and having the defendant answer is an ideal situation for a Process Server, but it doesn’t always work this way. The defendant may not want to be served and will go to lengths to avoid receiving any court papers. There are several legal options that the server has at this point:
Posting
Landlord/Tenant cases often use posting as a means of serving a defendant. In some states, it is acceptable for the special process server to ‘post’ the document to the front door of the named individual’s residence and follow up by mailing the court papers.
Substitute Service
Some states allow the independent process server to deliver the papers to someone other than the defendant when it has been shown that the Process Server has done their ‘due diligence’ to serve the documents to the named individual.
Drop Service
This occurs when a server blatantly leaves the paperwork near the defendant if the receiving person will not accept the papers. In some states, the paperwork must be placed face-up and not in an envelope. The documents are considered served even if the defendant chooses not to pick them up.
If you are looking for an affordable process server, you can contact Preferred Process Servers, Inc. Preferred Process Servers, Inc. is a company with a huge client base, yet able to personally attend to any individual’s legal needs with the utmost attention and precision. We provide a wide range of services on a routine and rush basis.
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