The Benefits of Using an Atlanta Process Server
May 09
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This Atlanta Process Server article is from MLQ Attorney services, an attorney services firm in Atlanta, Georgia
The benefits of using an Atlanta process server should be obvious if you are aware of the complexities involved in process serving, and the difference in legislation between jurisdictions.
For example, the law of trespass and its application to process servers varies between states. So also do ‘dies non juridicum’, or days which processes may not be served. Transgress only part of one of these state laws and the defendant can claim not to have been properly served and have the case dismissed.
Some states require process servers to be properly trained and licensed whereas other states require only experience. An Atlanta process server will be suitably qualified and well aware of the legal requirements of serving process in Georgia. It is also necessary that the person serving the process is not party to the case, so you cannot, for example, carry out the function yourself for a case you are pursuing, even if you were authorized to do so.
Although a process server can serve any legal documents, and also carry out functions such as skip tracing, investigation and other various forms of surveillance, the term ‘process’ refers specifically to informing a defendant of the court’s jurisdiction in a case, and of where and when the case is to be heard. It is for this specific purpose that a process server is licensed and trained, and for which they must provide an affidavit to the court that the process has been served.
It makes sense, therefore, that if you have a process to serve in Atlanta, that you employ an Atlanta process server to do so, because then you will have done all you can to ensure that the server is properly qualified and conversant with the laws within the jurisdiction of Atlanta courts.
