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When you have a civil legal case, you will need to be able to have the papers served to the other party in the case. You have two options to complete service of process—the sheriff’s department or a private process server. There are advantages and disadvantages of each. But in Florida, there are a lot of advantages of hiring a private process server for your legal paper needs. Timeliness When it comes to timeliness, you will get much faster service

When someone can’t be easily found, the process of finding them is called skip tracing. Most people don’t know very much about the process of skip tracing, how it’s done, or when it is done. Private process servers frequently use skip tracing to find individuals who need to be served papers. Here are four things you probably didn’t know about skip tracing. Most Likely to Disappear Skip tracing is used in a number of cases, but there are certain situations

When you are hiring a private process server to help with your court case, you want to make sure that you are hiring someone that is trustworthy. There are a lot of private process servers out there that engage in unethical practices such as gutter serves (throwing away papers instead of serving them). Before you agree to a private process server to handle your court papers, consider these three traits of a trustworthy process server. Less Than Perfect Success Rate

No one really wants to be served with court papers in any case. But how far will someone go to avoid being served? Florida has laws and regulations in place that penalize individuals for resisting service of process when it is affected by a registered private process server or sheriff’s department. Here’s what you need to know. Resisting Service Without Violence When a private process server knocks on the door and states their purpose, they could be turned away from

When you need papers served, you need to know that you can trust the process server you have hired. Untrustworthy process servers and paper brokers often engage in gutter serves. Learn what a gutter serve is, and why it hurts your case. What is a Gutter Serve? A gutter serve is essentially when the process server says that they served the papers, but in reality, they threw them away and did not deliver them. This illegal and unethical practice is

There is a new kind of process service company that has arisen in the last several years that work as paper brokers. These process service companies take on papers to be served and broker them out to independent contractors. There are several problems with this, and there are many reasons that you should know your process server who is actually handling your papers. Problems with Paper Brokers One of the biggest problems with paper brokers is that they contract the