Why You Cannot Avoid A Process Server

“Service of Process”  in law represents the delivery of a court document to another party to initiate a court case. Since delivery of the service documents is preferred by courts to be in person, many have tried to escape from court cases by avoiding a process server, but these rarely work out. In fact, it is wiser to resign to your fate and work out a proper defense of your position in court. To avoid a process server invites more trouble for you in the future. Why risk it? Let us investigate the false beliefs surrounding this action.

The Misconceptions

Granted, you will be able to avoid a process server by quite literally staying out of their way, but you are only delaying the inevitable. In the best-case scenario, it only makes a case take more time and costs you more money. You cannot run away from it.

Furthermore, even if you do not touch the papers left in your office by the process server; even if you do not sign them or provide any kind of paper acknowledging receipt, you have still been served.

If you are an individual, you might be able to stay out of your own home so that every time a server comes along to ring your doorbell, nobody answers the door. However, if even your spouse, or your adult child opens the door and accepts the papers, substitute service has been performed. The court case will proceed, whether you like it or not.

Other Options Available to a Process Server

If you continue to be evasive, service can be completed using alternative methods. Alternative methods to personal service include substituted service, service by publication, and service by email upon court order.

Stubbornness will not save you from a process server. Oftentimes, you have more to lose by avoiding it than if you had stood your ground and fought the case.

About Process Serving Network

Process Service Network is an experienced domestic and  international process server. With over 44 years of experience, you can trust us to serve your legal documents anywhere in the world. Contact us today for more information.