Another FAQ entry here, with a very simple response…
Since we’re serving this foreign defendant under Hague rules, do they get extra time to answer?
Nope. Nothing in the Hague Service Convention gives a defendant anything. The deadline is the deadline is the deadline. Why? Because the Convention only goes to HOW process is served–
[Ten years ago, I had the great pleasure of visiting the Republic of Turkey on a CLE adventure. A dozen lawyers (some with their families!)
For most of my childhood, Romania was one of those countries that adventurous travelers wanted to see… we just couldn’t go there because it was behind the Iron Curtain, a Soviet puppet state ruled
(TL;DR… publication is a horrible, terrible, woefully insufficient means of service, and the Supreme Court said so way back in 1950. It should only be used as a last resort, and even then, only when there’s a reasonable chance that it’ll actually notify anybody that a case is afoot.)
A story flooded my news feed
(See the author’s note below for clarification on which Hague Convention!)
A Hague Service Request, commonly known in the United States as a “USM-94” but also used in Canada, can be at once straightforward and daunting. On
No. No, no no… NO.Stop believing key word results without thinking things through. Just stop it.
If you Google “Process Server China” a whole bunch of hits come back that would lead you to believe that you can simply hire a guy in Shanghai or Shenzhen or Beijing to walk up to a defendant
No. No, no no… NO.
Stop believing key word results without thinking things through. Just stop it.
If you Google “Process Server Mexico” a whole bunch of hits come back that would lead you to believe that you can simply hire a guy in Juarez or Guadalajara or Mexico City to walk up to a
No. No, no no… NO.
Stop believing key word results without thinking things through. Just stop it.
If you Google “Process Server India” a whole bunch of hits come back that would lead you to believe that you can simply hire a guy in Mumbai or Bangalore or Delhi to walk up to a defendant
The single biggest challenge in my practice is layered– like a cake or a parfait or an onion or… everybody’s favorite grumpy, Glaswegian-accented ogre.
That single biggest challenge has three layers, to be precise:
Let’s dig a little deeper into what that query truly means, because some variation of it pops into my inbox at least once or twice a month, from litigators in both the U.S. and Canada. There’s a lot to unpack in those eight words,
