Judicial Support Blog

Effective service of process upon defendants outside the United States is not necessarily dependent upon a treaty such as The Hague Convention or the Inter-American Convention, Rule 4(f) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure sets out comprehensive guidelines for the service of process in a foreign country outside the framework and conditions of the [...]

The intention of the Hague Convention is to provide a method of service of process in civil and commercial matters among the signatories to the convention and eliminates the need to use consular or diplomatic channels to serve process. Each contracting state has to designate a Central Authority that will receive requests from other signatory [...]

When seeking to institute an action against a defendant in a foreign country caution must be exercised when choosing the method of service to be employed or the result could be vacation and dismissal years after judgement. Questionable service can be avoided by using the method of service that is most appropriate to the judicial [...]

If you’re like so many others I’ve talked to, you are searching for a realistic and permanent solution to personally delivering legal documents to respondents. Whether it’s an ongoing need or case-to-case, you are tired of dealing with sloppy process servers and not getting your process documents promptly served. You would also want to put [...]

A well known large-scale fraudulent business in the United States is the sewer service system. The sewer service phrase is used by individuals in the legal field when referring to process servers who intentionally failed to serve legal documents to party litigants. This occurs when the process server does not serve the legal notices or documents to [...]

The divergence of municipal laws in the international community gave birth to intercontinental treaties on process service. The advent of these treaties subsequently gave birth to international process service providers. International service of process is a means of effecting service of legal documents to party litigants who are residents or nationals of other countries. At [...]

The Hague Service Convention was signed into a treaty on November 15, 1965 in Hague Netherlands. The treaty was originally signed by the members of the Hague Conference on International Law. Later other countries adopted and adhered to the terms and stipulations found in the treaty. The purpose for which Hague Service Convention was initiated [...]

Letters Rogatory are formal requests to serve legal documents, sent to the court of a foreign state where a party or a witness resides.  Several states which are not privies to the international treaties on process service make use of this system. The system works when the court, where a case is pending or initiated, [...]

The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) is a law which was put into operation in 1976 and codified under Title 28 of the United States Law. The main purpose of this law was not to define which acts of sovereign states are actionable or not but to provide the conditions that should be present which [...]