From FL to CO to MI to GA, our carousel of state process serving laws in states where we have offices, now continues to the great state of Texas. Other than FL, TX is home to the most Accurate Serve® offices, boasting 2 locations, in Dallas AND Houston. FL and TX have several similarities when it comes to process serving laws. Some of those are below:
No Sunday service
Date/time of service needs to be endorsed on the process served
Must be at least 18 to qualify to serve process
Clerks and Attorneys can issue Subpoenas
Some differences include:
FL courts generally issue Summonses to initially serve on Defendants. TX issues Citations
TX Statutes require personal service on defendants. Most FL cases, substitute service on a co-resident is acceptable. For TX cases, if personal service proves difficult, the Judge/Courts can approve alternative service via posting or sub service
An officer authorized to take depositions in the State can also issue Subpoenas and then subsequently, serve them
No matter what state the papers originate, no matter where the papers need to be served – our Accurate Serve® offices/locations know the rules and how to get the job done.
If you are an Attorney in Texas, please reach out to either our Dallas or Houston offices. They will be your intake or point of contact with Accurate Serve®.
If you are an Attorney outside of TX, please continue to use the office you have been using. If you are new to using our company, please check out our franchise website (www.theaccurateservefranchise.com) to find out which office you should send your papers to expedite service of process.
Greetings! If you need service of process in the Orlando area, the Orlando office covers Orange, Seminole and Osceola counties. However, if you also need service of process in any other part of Florida, there is no need to Google search ever again. Through the Accurate Serve® affiliates, we have the entire state of Florida covered. We provide our clients with a one-stop-shop for all their process serving needs. No need to perform numerous web searches looking for a server who covers one county or another. Your local Accurate Serve office provides you with one contact, one email address, one phone number, one group of dedicated professionals who are members of a larger group of dedicated professionals with one common goal, SERVING YOUR PAPERS!
Wondering if we can help with service in a rural county? We absolutely can!
If you have multiple serves going to various locations in Florida, all you need to do is send the documents over via email and we will get them served for you.
Using your local Accurate Serve® for all your serving needs allows you to focus on the primary parts of your cases and practice and allows us to better serve you.
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March 2021 Job Statistics
March 2021 Job Count – 5,426
Average Number of Days from Receiving Paper to Paper Being Served* -5.4
*This includes jobs that may be on hold or waiting for new info. There is no way to take those jobs out of the calculation. So, if a job is placed on hold for 2 weeks, that’s 14 days on that job which factors in to this average. So, we’re even better than what the eyes see, LOL. Some papers get served same day, some next day and some take multiple attempts/addresses to effect service. All we do all day and every day is serve papers. We’re good at it and we love what we do. Thank you for allowing us the opportunity to continue to serve your papers.
Service of Process in the Lone Star State
