Talk:Service of process

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If a party didn't get serve in person and was serve by an inter-office mail at work. Would that be acceptable?

• Depends on the rules of the jurisdiction, but it could potentially go both ways. It may be legitimate service, or it could be procedurally defective. So long as the person actually got served. You may wish to consult a lawyer if you have any questions. Mmmbeer 17:01, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

Suppose the process server simply forges the party's signature and the party was never really served, then what? There should be a section on improper service or the law governing misconduct by a process server. talk 18:55, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

• I think it's safe to say most people know that laws are not meant to be broken. Documenting the laws that can potentially govern the abuse of process, improper or illegal service of process and process server misconduct in every state and every country for every conceivable set of circumstances would take years and fill volumes.

Why does Legal process redirect here? Is this something you do not have in America?--Seamus O'Halloran 22:19, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

In the U.S.A. "Legal process" is a term commonly used to describe any procedure available under the law, not just service of process. You can see what I mean by conducting a search on Google: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22legal+process%22&btnG=Google+Search

Contents 1 Removed the "Become a Process Server" section & links to servenow.com 2 Process Serving 3 Service on Corporations 4 Merger

[edit] Removed the "Become a Process Server" section & links to servenow.com

1. Please stop trying to promote servenow.com in this section. Wikipedia is not a business directory and articles are not advertisements (an official policy of long standing). Your ongoing efforts to promote servenow.com here contradict and conflict with the efforts of many who volunteer their time to provide reliable unbiased information in a manner consistent with the high standards everyone wants from Wikipedia.
2. The purpose of Wikipedia is to present facts, not to teach a subject matter. Posting pages of information on how to become a process server would be inappropriate even without the links going back to your web site.
3. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. The laws you posted were incomplete (abstracts) and did not include links to reliable sources (process serving laws change constantly).
4. Wikipedia works by building consensus. Service of Process is a subject of international interest, you should discuss it first before attempting to overwhelm "service of process" with USA information.

Thank you for removing this section, whoever did it. I agree, servernow.com was simply trying to build links for themselves, and not providing any good info to the Wikipedia community. Great work, and have a great new year.

[edit] Process Serving

Would it be possible to have 'process serving' direct to this page. Generally, that's what it is known as in the UK and Ireland. I thought the page didn't exist at first, because my first entry when looking for it was 'process serving'. Unfortunately, I'm new to Wikipedia and I don't know how to do it myself! Blaise Joshua 12:35, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

It seems that the content from the article on Process agents would be more appropriate merged in to the content from the article on Process servers. CheshireKatz 03:11, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

It seems that the definition of service of process is flawed, legal notice is not neccesarily achieved by effectuating service of process. At least in the U.S., it is possible to satisfy service of process without satisfying legal notice as required by the Due Process Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

Please include a link to the local, State or Federal code you are referring to above.

[edit] Service on Corporations

The following, in regards to service of process on a corporation's registered agent, is incorrect (Service on an agent of a corporation is a form of personal service):

"Acceptance by an agent for acceptance of service is a form of substituted service"

[edit] Merger

I am mildly against merging process agent with service of process. Although the former article is small at the moment, it is probably big enough as a topic to warrant its own article. --Legis (talk - contributions) 14:43, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

• I agree. However, shouldn't process agent be merged with registered agent? PeetMoss 15:49, 15 March 2007 (UTC)