Expert Los Angeles Process Servers

In the State of California, the law requires that a Los Angeles process server be at least 18 years of age and not a party to the action.
A party to the action is defined as the plaintiff or defendant in a court case.
CT Corporation System process servers must be a disinterested party and have no legal or financial interest in the lawsuit.
After the server completes the service of process, he must swear under penalty of perjury that the service was executed in a proper manner.
The defendant should be provided due process by delivery made in a calculated way designed to give them actual notice of the proceeding.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's office, along with other counties throughout California, has a civil process division that provides process serving for the
general public on a limited basis.
A sheriff serves only mandated paper processes, such as writs requiring the physical taking of property.
In Los Angeles County and most other California counties, there is an alternative to the sheriff for your process serving needs.
A L.A. County registered and bonded process server!
As previously stated, California law requires that a ct corporation process server be over the age of 18 and not a party to the action.
When serving legal documents, ten paper services in one calendar year is the limit. She must then register as a Los Angeles County process server.

Exemptions from registering:

1. Attorneys
2. Employees of Attorneys
3. Licensed Private Investigators
4. Sheriffs or governmental employees
5. Photocopiers whose only process serving relates to subpoenas for the production of business records.

This exemption does not make that person a registered legal server.
It only exempts them from having to register as a California process server.

In Los Angeles County a person registers by posting a $2,000 process server bond and filing a certificate of registration with the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder's Clerk.
The certificate of registration states that the registrant has not been convicted of a felony.
This person must also provide 2 fingerprint cards for a state and federal background check to ensure they have no felony convictions.
The registered Los Angeles process server statute gives them authority to serve certain lawsuit papers, such as:

• Writ of Attachment
• Writ of Execution
• Earnings Withholding Order
• Order of Examination of Judgment Debtor
• Pre-judgment claim of right to possession

Special legal status in regard to the manner of conduct.

• Assault on a professional process server while performing legal document delivery is a felony.
• Limited exemption from trespass.
• Proof of service has rebuttable presumption status.
• Must be provided access to a gated community when serving legal papers.

Servers are not limited to when a service of process can be made.

Generally speaking, service of process may be made 24 hours a day on any day of the week, provided that the documents to be served originate in a state that allows process to be served without restrictions.
*Please note that certain states do not allow service of process, or process serving of legal documents, on Sunday.
As stated, there is no hard and fast rule as to when service of process can be made.

However, a good Los Angeles process server should use some discretion when serving papers late at night or too early in the morning.

A good rule of thumb that most Southern California servers use is to not make their attempts after 10 pm or before 7:00 am.
They will attempt delivery only if specifically requested by the attorney client to serve the court papers at a time outside of those hours.

Other states have varying rules for service of process.

A CT corporation process server should certainly stay informed in that regard to avoid an improper service.
It could cause serious delays to a court case if the process server fails to perform his duty to properly serve the legal documents. And serious problems can arise out of improper service of process.

For example:
When an improper ct. corp. service of legal papers is made and the Los Angeles
process server lies on a proof of service declaration, the court has no jurisdiction over the person served.
Usually when an improper service is made, it is not discovered for many months.
oftentimes even after a default judgment is entered.
In that event, the defendant may have a cause of action against the plaintiff.
and the court paper server for abuse of process and emotional distress.
The CT Corporation process server is obligated and has a legal duty to know the proper manner for service of process.
His registration could be revoked for serving invalid service of process.

When hiring a professional process service company, it is important to know whether or not their servers are qualified to handle your assignment.
The following is a list of questions for you to consider in that regard.

Is the Los Angeles County process server registered and bonded?

1) Is the process server a full-time professional process server or working part-time serving legal papers to earn a few extra dollars in her spare time?

2) Does the Los Angeles Process Server live and work near CT Corporation System Los Angeles?
If he lives 50 miles away from downtown L.A., how many times a day or even a week will he try to serve your legal papers?
Always make sure that the private process server you hire resides a reasonable distance from where you need the serving of your documents.

3) Is the Los Angeles process serving company available 24/7?
What if you need small claims papers served at a residential address?

Does the server work nights and weekends?
Remember the sheriff only works early in the am and sometimes early in the evenings… NO weekends!
What if your defendant or witness is only home on weekends?

4) Does the Los Angeles process service company provide skip tracing in the event the subject’s address is bad or maybe he or she moved?
Who is going to find the new address for you?

5) How many attempts will be made to serve the court documents for your fee?

6) Unlike other companies, our court document servers offer discounted rates for multiple cases at the same location.
We also offer reduced special rates to CT Corporation System in California.

Process service, locate, and stakeout fees are recoverable costs.

We regularly serve:

Civil, Criminal, Family Law, Small Claims, Probate, State, and Federal Cases.

Summons, Complaints, SC-100, Petitions, Subpoenas, Unlawful Detainers, Restraining Orders, Citations

We are the best process server in Los Angeles.
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