Process Service
The person you are attempting to serve moved out of their old apartment, you can’t find their car at their work place and their cell phone number has been disconnected. If the person you’re trying to track down seems to be able to disappear into thin air, it can be frustrating. This are common issues with Process Service.
If the person you are attempting to serve is evading you at every turn or if they have threatened you or become violent when you have tried to serve them papers, you need to turn over the job to a professional.
How does a PI track down the person I’m looking for?
Private investigators know how to use surveillance skills to keep track of people’s day-to-day routines to figure out how to best approach them. Depending on the complexity of the case, some private investigators also use special databases to find information about the people they are keeping track of.
Some people are easier to track down than others, so every investigation looks a little different.
Why is Process Service so complicated?
In some cases, people simply do not wish to be served legal documents. They may wish to avoid a court case or divorce case and may simply leave town or refuse to accept the documents. When this happens, it is important to have a professional private investigator or process server do the process serving for you. Such a professional can:
- Use surveillance techniques to find the person, if necessary.
- Use skip tracing to find them if they have left town or left the country. Private investigators can even draw a large network of private investigators in other areas of the country and around the world in order to find someone in order to serve them with papers.
- Ensure that proper laws are followed. In some states, process servers must have the legal documents in question actually touch the body of the person who’s being served. In other states, trespass laws do not allow servers to approach someone on their own property. In short, hiring a professional process server can help ensure that your documents are delivered in a correct way. If they are not, your court case could be thrown out or tied up in legal problems for a while.
- Show solid evidence that the documents were served. If the person who is served claims that they did not receive legal documents, a qualified process serving professional will be able to show an affidavit of service or proof of service that can prove that the person has accepted the documents.
