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The Stranger Side of Process Service

Legal battles and lawsuits have become a fact of life, and as a result many people each day send and receive official court documents that provide notice of an impending court dispute. This service of process, the act of providing the defendant in a legal case with the proper paperwork notifying him that action is being taken against him, is a professional job that has the potential to go rather awry.

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The Benefits of Hiring a Professional Document Server

Paperwork and court cases are inseparable concepts. Motions, verdicts, claims, appeals, briefings, transcripts…the list goes on and on. Logical, organized filing systems exist to avoid chaos in the midst of so much paperwork, but it can still be challenging for someone not involved with the courts, or someone with a very limited amount of valuable time, to locate a specific document—let alone if multiple documents are needed across various courts!  That’s why regular citizens and attorneys both rely on professional

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The Top Questions You Should Ask a Process Server Before Hiring

When selecting a local process server, it’s important to ensure you hire the right person for the job. They’ll need to be a trusted, reliable firm with a proven track-record, and it’s vital to ask the right questions before you invest in their services. Questions to Ask Your Local Process Server

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How Outsourcing Process Serving is Streamlining the Judicial System

When it comes to becoming a successful legal professional, the ultimate determining factor is how strict your attention to detail is. What makes a good lawyer is the amount of quality time spent studying the case, and all of those who are involved. You never know where that unique detail is going to come from. Therefore, lawyers are increasingly outsourcing the tasks they normally would do themselves so they can spend more time researching and collecting data. What is Required

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Document Retrieval Automation

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.

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Skip Tracing – The Difference between Failure and Success in the Legal Process

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

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Why Process Servers are a Lawyer’s Secret Ingredient

As a lawyer acting as a representation of a party to intended litigation, it is inadvisable to involve yourself in the serving course. You risk becoming a witness should the specifics of a service of process become an issue, thus disqualifying yourself. The most important aspect when selecting a company to assist you with administrative details is the breadth of service provided. Many process servers will attend to more than merely the serve process. Assuming you would prefer to reduce

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Tips for Doing a Diligent Search

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

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You’ve Been Served!

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

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Texas Servers to Get Own Legal Code of Conduct

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.

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