It’s not always to find people when you want to sue them. In fact, most people will go out of their way to not be found if they know they are going to be subject to legal action. Yet you have to officially serve people if you are going to
Process of service is essential to most legal procedures, but many people still don’t know much about it. Some people may have a vague recollection of a scene in a movie where someone was served (usually by dubious methods), but most can’t tell you much about the process or why
Skip tracing is the process of finding someone to serve them papers for a lawsuit or another legal matter. Some people will intentionally evade detection or even leave town if they know that serious legal action is pending. Yet some legal processes can’t move forward if the parties are not
Process servers have a tough job. Not only do they have to go to great lengths to find someone who typically does not want to be found, but they also have to do the job while following some very strict rules. The law is explicit about what
You decide to sue the person who hit your car in that Wal-Mart parking lot and didn’t stay behind to give you his insurance information. The trouble is, he knows you’re trying to find him, and he will do anything he can to avoid getting those papers, which will move
5 Steps to Serving Child Support Papers in Arizona
In an ideal world, two parents would separate, and they would have an amicable agreement about where the child spends time and the other parent would pay an appropriate amount of financial support to provide for the child’s needs. But we
Hiring a process server can improve the strength of your case. An Arizona process server will ensure that proper service of process takes place to notify parties to the case of the legal action, to call on witnesses to testify, to subpoena evidence, and more. Without proper service of
Say your spouse is serving time in prison and you want to divorce him. Can you serve the divorce papers to him in prison? Or does that have to go through
The first step in your Arizona divorce is filing the petition with the court and then notifying your spouse. Just calling up your spouse – or, in some celebrity cases, texting them – is not enough to notify
Can Invalid Service Ruin a Case?
Proper service of process is the start of many legal claims. You notify your employer that you are bringing a suit based on what you believe was a wrongful termination. You notify your roommate that you are initiating formal eviction proceedings. Serving this notice
An eviction notice is the first step to the eviction process. Unlike what might be portrayed in movies and on TV, just telling a tenant that they are evicted is not all that happens to get them out of the house or apartment. Having the eviction papers served just begins
Most estate planning attorneys in Scottsdale will have to work with a process server at some point or another, but not all attorneys understand the value of proper service of process. Document service may seem like little more than a formality – that is until they are dealing with
Mesa, AZ – ASAP Serve, Arizona’s first choice for service of legal process announces teaming up with Skip Serve Investigations, a private investigation company specializing in finding people, especially those that don’t want to be found. While the companies will remain separate in corporate structure, this unique symbiotic relationship will
After a money judgement (a court decision requiring money to be given from one person or legal entity to another), the money must be paid. The person who is owed the money (called the judgment creditor) is responsible for collecting the money. If the person who is supposed to
One of the types of cases that a Phoenix Arizona process server may work with is an injunction against workplace harassment. (Not to be confused with an injunction against harassment). At ASAP Serve, we are experienced in dealing with these cases and would
What is Legal Harassment In Arizona
In Arizona, harassment has a specific, legal definition. According to the Judicial Branch of Arizona Maricopa County website, one act can never constitute harassment. The act must be repeated in order to be considered legal harassment. There are other conditions as well.
Restraining Orders in Arizona go by the title of orders of protection or injunctions. According the the Judicial Branch of Arizona in Maricopa County, you can only apply for an order
There are many types of legal papers that a process server can deliver. In Arizona, a forcible detainer is one such type of paper. In more common terms, a forcible detainer is a part of the eviction process, and is sometimes called eviction. There are many steps involved in evicting
At ASAP Serve, we deliver a wide variety of legal papers. We thought it might be helpful if our clients, and anyone else reading this blog, knew more about the papers we serve. The following are just a few of the many types of papers that
If you are new to process serving, there may be some terms that you are not familiar with. Some terms that sound familiar may have specific legal meanings. In order to better understand process serving, it is important to first understand some of the basic terminology. Our goal is to
Most people know that process servers deliver papers for court cases, but they may not realize all of the different types of legal documents that can be served. Arizona process servers, including those at ASAP Serve, can promptly and legally serve many types of
If you have a legal document that needs served in Arizona, you may be wondering if you have to hire a process server. In Arizona, the answer is most likely yes. There are alternatives to a process server. A sheriff could serve legal
New technology can be a a big help to process servers, especially when trying to track down someone who is attempting to avoid a summons. See our article on Skiptracing for more information on some of the technology that we use. Social Media technology is providing Phoenix process
