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On the grand scale of frightening and damaging courtroom situations, small claims is a minor inconvenience. Despite this, small claims court can cause major headaches and heartaches to someone who enters the ring unprepared. Here is what you need to know if you receive a small claims court notice. What is Small Claims Court? This type of court offers a means for ordinary citizens to resolve small issues and disputes in a less complicated and more affordable manner. It takes

Life as a process server can swing on a pendulum from average—even mundane—to a little bit too exciting. When presenting subjects with the papers that need to be served, you may find yourself in a situation that’s difficult to navigate due to a less-than-friendly recipient. Some shout words and nothing more, but others take things to the next level. How exactly should you react, and what do you say to the police? If the Subject Makes a Threat Many people

Owning a home is an enormous accomplishment, but unfortunately often a source of stress, anxiety, and financial difficulty. Perhaps you have experienced unexpected life changes, unemployment, or other difficulties that have made your previously affordable mortgage payment now out of your reach. You may assume that foreclosure is your only option, but before throwing in the towel for good, educate yourself and learn your alternatives.

Legal battles and lawsuits have become a fact of life, leading people across the country to need service of process. Service of process is the act of providing the defendant in a legal case with the proper paperwork notifying him that action is being taken against him and he must defend himself. Given that many people don’t want to be served, this can be a tricky task, to say the least. Process servers have been known to exercise extreme

What Exactly Is Service of Process? Unless you live in a utopian world, lawsuits are an unfortunate fact of life. Every court case involves a plaintiff, who files for the lawsuit, and a defendant, who is having the action taken against him and must defend himself. The United States requires that the defendant be properly notified of the court case. This is called maintaining Due Process of Law through Service of Process. Laws and rules differ in each state, of

Process servers have a difficult job to do and there is no question there will be certain assignments that will test not only a server’s patience but their skillset. No matter how challenging a person may be to locate and serve, the process server must never resort to taking unscrupulous measures just to call the task complete. Unfortunately sloppy and often blatantly dishonest practices have been cropping up in the media more often, giving process servers a deplorable reputation. Foreclosure

A seasoned debt collector or skip tracer has an uncanny ability that allows them to read a person on the phone. This is a valuable skill to develop, especially in cases where after you have located your target, you must now locate an asset for your client. With practice and a little know-how, you can read between the lines to figure out if your subject is lying and how to beat them at their own game. Compel Information from Silence

In the fields involving skip tracing, including private investigation and accounts receivable, timing is everything when it comes to the turnaround between locating contact information and getting the subject on the phone. Searching for updated contact information can be a continuous process for some subjects who lack much stability, often changing phones and residences as they bounce from place to place. The ability to locate the subject quickly directly affects the ability to act to collect or serve papers. To

When becoming a process server, certain things are to be expected. The new process server will already know they will be in contact with some unsavory people pretty much every day. They will also know they may enter some less-than-peachy areas in order to serve a subject. What takes many new process servers by surprise however is just how dangerous the job can be. While “serve ‘em and leave ‘em” is the best strategy, things sometimes do not go that