They served you! These three words are not only familiar, but have gained notoriety over the years. People are afraid that the mother will mention these words. But what does it really mean?
It has been said that understanding is the key to erasing fear. Generally, service of process involves two parties on opposite sides and a legal act connecting the two parties. Specifically, the two parties are the one who served the process or the one who caused the process to be served and the other is the intended recipient of the process. It is the recipient of the process who is usually “afraid” to hear the line “you were served”. But saying those same words means success for the other party.
“You were served” basically means that one of the parties learned that a lawsuit had been filed against him or her. Since a lawsuit is usually seen as an annoyance or a glitch in everyday life, it is avoided, evaded, dodged, dodged, and in many ways dodged in various imaginative ways.
Avoid drama during personal service or process delivery
The best way to serve any legal process is by service or personal delivery, which can be done by serving the actual physical process or documents on the person named in the documents. This means that the server will have to meet face to face with the person named in the legal documents to be served.
In most cases, once a person has been served with legal process, they receive it without much fuss. The server will write the date and time of service on your copy of said legal process. The process is then completed and the person named in the process is now within the jurisdiction of the court that issued the process.
However, in certain rare cases, since there is a face-to-face meeting or a confrontation, in many circumstances it becomes a bit dramatic. This happens when the person served refuses to receive it, and the server insists on receiving the same papers. The inherent situation is a potential conflict zone.
In this case, a process server with good social and communication skills will manage to serve the legal process with the least possible difficulty. It must be understood that the initial reaction of any person to any legal process is to refuse, reject and then flee. Thus, a server who can serve the papers in the most calm and friendly way will overcome this initial rejection.
Time is also a factor in personal service. Timing, when combined with prior research on the personality and behavior of the person to be served, will produce a high success rate and eliminate the risk of conflict. Most people would keep any indication that they are being sued a secret. That’s why it’s important that any summons, demand letter, or any legal document about it be served on you privately. This would remove the burden of explaining to any companions you may have at the time of service why you are being given such a process.
In the event that the recipient continues to refuse service of the process, the server must attempt to serve the recipient at least two more times. Serving process at least three times would constitute reasonable diligence and could be a strong basis for requesting substitute service, which is another method of service of process.