How to Avoid Process Servers
Process servers are men and women legally empowered to pursue you at home, at work and in public to serve you with legal documents detailing action being taken against you. The documents they serve either ask you to respond in writing, or ask you to appear in court to defend yourself. You can legally ignore and avoid efforts to serve you. Process servers will often try to trick you into accepting their service, so don't hesitate to use tricks of your own to avoid it.
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Instructions
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Do not open your door to anyone you don't know. If a stranger calls you by name through the door or a window, don't respond. You are under no legal obligation to acknowledge or respond to a process server.
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Instruct everyone in your household to refuse to open the door to strangers and to not communicate with people they don't know. Process servers sometimes receive court permission to serve the summons on anyone in the household, including young teens.
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Refuse to accept any certified mail. If the mail delivery person comes to your door, do not answer the door. The postal service will leave notices in your mailbox that request you to pick up your certified letter at the Post Office. Do not respond to the notices.
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Telecommute as much as possible. Tell your co-workers not to identify you to anyone who asks about you at work. If a co-worker points you out to a process server at work, deny your identity and walk away. While being pursued by a process server, remove all personal identifiers and photographs from your workspace.
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Change your physical appearance often. Take a change of clothes and a wig or hat to work, and change in the restroom before leaving the building. Wear sunglasses and a large hat that obscures your facial features at all times outdoors.
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Vary your habits. Use different entrances and exits every day when arriving for work and leaving your workplace. Stay indoors for lunch and breaks. Don't park in your usual spot or even in the company parking lot.
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Vary your schedule. Arrive at and leave your workplace in darkness. If you usually use mass transit, change the times and locations of your trains or buses. Don't speak to strangers on mass transit.
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Be aware of who's in the cars around you. Don't acknowledge strangers while driving or while stopped for traffic signals. Take different routes to common shopping stops. Wait in your car for a few minutes to be sure you aren't being observed before you step out of your vehicle into a public place.
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Tips & Warnings
If you plan to fight the lawsuit, have an attorney accept the service.
Be aware that avoiding a process server won't stop the legal action against you. After a few unsuccessful attempts to serve you, a process server will likely ask the court to permit alternate service. This may include first-class mail, in which delivery by the Post Office to your address is considered service. Alternate service may also include publishing a legal notice in a general-circulation newspaper. If you fail to respond to the summons and fail to appear in court for a civil case, the court will almost always grant a default judgment to the person suing you. If the summons you are avoiding involves more serious allegations, or is an order from a judge to appear in court, your failure to appear could result in a bench warrant issued for your arrest.
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ed expect to be served bro.
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can' hide from ed and myself- will come and get you
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It is futile to avoid a process server. The wheels of justice wil turn, one way or another, regardless. And avoidance only ends up costing you more in the end. Besides, if someone was coming at you with some legal action, wouldn't you WANT to know about it? How stupid is it to think that avoiding the process server will just make things "go away?" If that were the case there wouldn't even be a need for a court in the first place. More times than not, a paper that doesn't get served goes to publication and, honestly, who reads the legal notices in the newspaper? Someone could sue you, you avoid service, they publish the summons in the legal section, it goes to court and you don't even know when or where, they win, you're screwed. Don't be an idiot. Take the papers and say "Thank you for giving me the heads-up, Mr. Process Server." This advice on how to avoid a process server is probably the most stupid thing I have read on the internet in a month.
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man up just except it. evade it only make it more expensive. & if the server knows you are evading the'll just do a "drop serve".
