A bit of history is critical to knowing how to serve process in Taiwan.  Depending on who you talk to, there are two Chinas.  There’s the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the Communist-run mainland, and then there’s Taiwan, the Republic of China (ROC), which is the descendant of the Nationalist regime that ruled China

The world’s largest democracy.  An ancient and intriguing land with no equal on the spectrum of diverse and exotic destinations.  Seriously– India is not a single culture.  It’s dozens of them, if not hundreds.  Serving process in India is subject to the strictures of the Hague Service Convention, regardless of which U.S. or Canadian venue

We aren’t building rockets here.  But we are building a ship of sorts, and a leaky hull means the cruise ship might not get you to that cabana sheltered rum drink you’ve been craving.  Serving process in the Cayman Islands is subject to the strictures of the Hague Service Convention, regardless of which U.S.

Richard Burton & Elizabeth Taylor, "Divorce His, Divorce Hers", 1973. Public domain (image pre-1977 without assertion of copyright).
Richard Burton & Elizabeth Taylor, “Divorce His, Divorce Hers”, 1973.  Public domain (image pre-1977 without assertion of copyright).

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

JLPC via Wikimedia Commons.
JLPC via Wikimedia Commons.

(As of 2022… French Huissiers are now called Commissaires de Justice…)

To most American lawyers, service pursuant to the Hague Service Convention means filling out an inscrutable Article 5 request form, putting a jumble of paperwork into decipherable order, and mailing it off into some