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Lawyers and attorneys work in a profession generally perceived as being safe from technological take over. A good legal professional utilizes a combination of creativity, communication, debating, and information processing to develop a good case or defense. The backbone of accomplishing that is reliable information. Without adequate facts, the most detailed and concise defense is easily destroyed when presented to a judge and jury.

If you need to serve legal documents to an individual but are having a difficult time locating them, you need skip trace services. Skip trace services involve locating hard-to- find people who may have left town and are attempting to hide to avoid being served. Who Do Skip Tracers Look For? “Skips”—the individuals you are trying to locate—may have intentionally or unintentionally disappeared without leaving much in the way of a trail. Some skips owe money to other parties and

You may be required to be involved in a diligent search, especially if you are working on behalf of children who may be in foster care. Many state laws require that a diligent search be completed that can identify those individuals who can become a valid resource for custody or placement of children. This search can also be used to identify people who have an important commitment to the child. Generally, information begins to be collected once the state child

The first thing to understand about being served legal documents or summons is that the rules vary from state to state. The rules can also differ according to the kind of summons that is being served. Generally, the person bringing the process must decide which method is best and may have to hire a professional summons server or a police agency to deliver the summons to you. Summons can be delivered either by hand (in person), via mail, or through

The Judicial Branch Certification Commission (or JBCC) in Texas has recently been instructed to create and recommend a new code of ethics that will apply to every profession that the organization regulates. This recommendation will then go to the Supreme Court and will of course cover process servers. The Texas Process Servers Association responded to this by alerting its members by e-mail to the 30 day comment period that ended on March 13th.

The job of process servers is to serve papers. This means that they have to take summons and other legal documents to the defendants, often before they know they are defendants. Process servers are of course objective and are in fact doing the defendants a favor by ensuring they are aware that they are being taken to court and by giving them time to prepare.