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Four Reasons You Might Need to Hire a Process Server

There are plenty of professionals that you are familiar with paying in order to complete some type of task for you: a landscaper, a party planner, and a plumber, for instance. But what about a process server? Until you need a process server, you may not even realize the job exists! Process servers serve many crucial roles, and when it comes to lawsuits, you may find yourself needing their help for any of the following reasons. First- What is a

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Wells Fargo Works to Minimize Legal Trouble

Things haven’t been pretty for Wells Fargo Bank lately. Trouble began in the fall when federal regulators ordered the bank to pay nearly $200 million in fines as a response to the discovery that Wells Fargo employees had secretly created millions of unauthorized bank and credit card accounts without customer approval. This secret account and card opening had been occurring since 2011, tricking customers into paying fines on accounts they didn’t even know they had in their name.

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Can Landlords Accelerate the Eviction Process?

If you are a residential or commercial landlord, you are probably familiar with the long and complicated process of evicting a tenant from your property. Despite the credit checks and references required to obtain a rental property, it’s a common problem for tenants to encounter financial setbacks and default on their rent payments. This leaves you, the property owner or manager, to watch out for your own interests by commencing the eviction process.

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Find Out How Facebook is Playing a Role in Divorce Proceedings

All spouses react differently when a divorce becomes imminent. Some file divorce papers within days, while others remain separated for months or years before beginning to consider an official divorce. If you are among the latter group, it is completely possible that you actually don’t even know the whereabouts of your soon-to-be ex-spouse. Assuming you have both moved on with your lives throughout a long separation, the biggest challenge to obtaining a divorce could be locating your ex.

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Process Servers Do More than Serve Papers

Process servers are best known as the people who knock on doors to serve court summons, foreclosure complaints, and lawsuit notices. However, process servers can also help attorneys and courts with other important matters that don’t involve the direct delivery of papers. These jobs are just as important and help to keep the legal world turning round. Document Retrievals Practicing attorneys are some of the busiest people in the world, especially when multiple cases are coming to fruition at the

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Here’s What You Should Know about International Process Serving

  Achieving successful, completely legal service of process can be a tricky accomplishment. When the papers needing to be delivered must be serviced internationally, the task becomes far more complicated. In addition to the travel involved, international service of process must also blend the requirements of American law with the regulations of an overseas nation. Three specific treaties are in place to guide process servers in their journey to deliver papers internationally, but they aren’t always clear cut.

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Serving Papers to a Celebrity

That feeling when you’re about to serve papers to a massive celebrity. You know the feeling: Knees weak. Arms are heavy. Vomit on our sweaters already. Mom’s spaghetti.  Okay those are Eminem lyrics but he perfectly captures how we felt when serving The Celebrity Who Shall Not Be Named. In order to get to the nauseous place though, we had to jump through some hoops.

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Process Server in Legal Trouble Gets the Last Laugh

You may have heard by now that body cameras are on their way to becoming a required accessory for process servers. Though the most current bill, working its way through the Illinois legislature, only requires body cameras on process servers working in counties with a population higher than three million people, this trend is likely to become an accepted way of being over the next few years. This is especially true considering the newfound prevalence of body cameras in use

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This Just In: The Secretary of State is “Not Playing.”

Don’t get it twisted, ya’ll. When you submit papers to the Secretary of State without following his meticulous guidelines, you will be turned away. It will cost you extra money and time. And you will be on the receiving end of some first-class Secretary of State email smugness (his favorite part of the job). There are a few things you can do to prevent this from happening, the first of which is; always trust your Accurate Serve process server’s advice

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Can Gated Communities Legally Keep Process Servers Away?

Gated communities like the upscale neighborhoods found in Florida have become very popular around the country. These gated communities are usually high-end places to live with expensive Homeowner’s Association fees that contribute to creating a private and protected environment for all residents. The gates themselves are typically manned by guards who require proof of residency or permission from a current homeowner in order to enter.

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