In order for the Hague Service Convention (HSC) to govern the legal formalities of notifying defendants of claims against them, you’ve got to know where the defendant can be found. An address is critical to service anywhere, on any
I’ve seen a huge spike lately in the number of divorce attorneys calling about serving subpoenas on offshore banks. The
A few months ago, I offered up a nightmare scenario to illustrate the importance of properly serving under the Hague Service Convention. After I mentioned it in a CLE lecture (about legal blogging, of all things), a colleague asked me
Serving process abroad touches virtually every aspect of civil litigation.
It happens all the time. I’ll give a lecture or mention what I do at a bar association event, and the colleague I
A couple of years ago, I ran into a law school classmate at a happy hour hosted by our local bar association. “Hey, you handle service of process in other countries, right?” Yeah, I answered. Quite a bit of Hague Service Convention stuff.
“Great. Lemme ask you a question…”
He was handling a
My parents divorced around the time I finished high school.* The court ordered Dad to provide support to Mom for both me and my sister as long as we were full time students, even in college. I finished my bachelor’s degree about the same time my sister finished high school, and the old man decided
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Your client is a G.I.— a grunt, a leatherneck, a swabbie, or a flyboy. While he was stationed overseas, he met a girl who he thought was the love of his life. After a whirlwind romance, they got married, and she followed him stateside.
Eventually, things went south. For whatever
[Originally published at vikinglaw.us]
A particular quirk arises in serving a defendant if he or she is a U.S. servicemember stationed abroad. For the most part, I explain to clients that such an objective is a tough one, so they might have to simply wait until the defendant returns to the United States. [This
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