You have been served! These three words are not only familiar but have gained fame over the years. People are scared just by saying these words. But what exactly does it mean?
It is said that understanding is the key to removing fear. In general, process services involve two opposing parties and a legal action that connects the two parties. Specifically, two parties are the person serving the process or the person causing the process to be served and the other is the intended recipient of the process. It is the process recipient who is usually “afraid” of hearing the phrase “you are served”. But saying those same words meant success for the other party.
“You are served” basically means that a party is notified that a lawsuit has been initiated against it. Since lawsuits are usually viewed as complexities or mistakes in everyday life, they are avoided, avoided, subdued, avoided and in many ways avoided in imaginative ways.
Avoid Drama During Personal Service or Delivery Process
The best way to service any legal process is by private service or delivery, which can be done by offering the actual physical or paper proceedings to the person named on the paper. This means that the process server must deal directly with the person named in the legal document to be served.
In most cases, once a person is tendered with due process, he or she accepts it without much fuss. The process server will write the date and time of submission on the copy of the legal process. The proceeding service is then completed and the person named in the proceeding is now within the jurisdiction of the court that issued the proceeding.
However, in certain exceptional cases, because there is a face-to-face meeting or confrontation, in many cases it becomes a little dramatic. This happens when the person served by the legal process refuses to accept it, and the process server insists on receiving the same document. The inherent situation is a potential conflict zone.
In this case, a process server with good communication and social skills will be successful in serving the legal process with the least possible struggle. It must be understood that everyone’s initial reaction to any legal process is to refuse, refuse, and then run away. Thus, a process server that can serve paper in the most calm and friendly manner will overcome this initial resistance.
Time is also a factor in personal service. Timing when combined with previous investigations into the personality and attitude of the person to be served will result in a high success rate and eliminate the risk of conflict. Most people would hide any hint that he was being sued. Therefore, it is important that any summons, letter of request or any legal document for that matter must be delivered to him personally. This will remove the burden of explaining to any companion he may have at the service, why such a process is given to him.
If the intended recipient continues to deny the process service, the process server must try to serve it at least two more times. Serving the process at least three times will constitute reasonable persistence and can be a solid basis for requesting replacement service, which is another method of process service.
