Why hiring process servers to deliver international legal documents? – Process services
Process services are best known for all kind of legal documents when you need to deliver legal documents in different countries. There are many countries which allows to deliver the documents through informal services. However, many countries are there, which are signatory of The Hague Convention. Under, The Hague Convention, the service cannot be done through process server, but it must be done through judiciary system.
There are two type of process services: FORMAL SERVICES AND INFORMAL SERVICES. Through Informal Services, the documents can be delivered through a professional & licensed process server personally by hand to the respondent. Most of the countries allow this kind of service as it is very easy process to deliver the legal documents and it is less time consuming. It is best way to ensure that the documents are delivered in the right hands. In most of the western countries, the process service is a professional field and you can hire a licensed process server to deliver your documents. There are many challenges which can be faced by process server while delivering the documents because sometimes, the respondent is not ready to accept the documents but mostly process servers are professional and also, they know the ways to deliver your documents. Once the service is done, the affidavit will be issued by process server which can be use for the litigation process as required by the courts.
When the documents must be served under The Hague Convention with the country rules and regulation, it can be bit more time consuming. Moreover, it is less preferred method nowadays as it can take longer time and without notifications. It is anyway a process and judiciary system use it whenever there is no other way to serve the documents.