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mpbailey136 · #4 (**permalink**) 07-08-2008, 01:28 PM

Hello All,
I wanted to title the subject line vague to get People to read.
If you are on an Attorney forum, you are either an Attorney or a Person looking for answers to various Questions.

If you are an Attorney or a Person looking for answers, Please read this post, as I hope to offer my services which I would rather call my help.

I am going to tell you what I do for a living, then I will tell you my Job title. I hope this will be interesting and a helpful post.

When a Case is filed with the Courts, weather by an Attorney, Landlord, or an individual, in most cases, the Defendant (person being sued) needs to be served with Court papers.

Most people (many Attorneys included) leave it up to the Sheriff department to serve the documents on the Defendant because of many reasons, such as, COST, after all the price is included when the documents are filed to be served by the Sheriff. Or the Defendant is dangerous and the Sheriff has the training to handle serving an eviction, but you want possession of your property and back owed rent. If in Missouri, if your documents are posted, you can not receive monetary damages. Child Support, Protection order on the Man that won't stop beating you, and remove him from my house so you and your Children and I can live in peace. To your Spouse when you have won custody and need to retrieve your Child from that violent person who has your Child right now and return to you. Just to name a few situations that happen every day in someones life.

Please don't take what I am saying wrong, BUT. The Sheriff Department has so much Process to serve that while on the clock, the best attempts are made. But, if it is a hard to serve person, most likely it won't be served. Not because of not trying, just because there is too many cases going through the Sheriff Department and not enough time to spend on one case.

Each document is time sensitive and needs to be served in a time frame from when the Court dates the document, the clock has started. Sheriff receives it, (along with 80 other papers for the day), well in short, your document did not get served because no one was home when attempted, person moved, wont answer the door, is evading service. Paper ran out of time for service. With these examples, you can see why your paper did not get served. However, it HAS to be served or all of the examples I mentioned documents are not worth the paper it is written on. The Police can only act on a protection order when it has been served. The court can only Rule on a Case if it has been served. Each time your documents goes to that Sheriff with 80 papers a day to serve, Will he/she get service this time? not only because it cost extra each time it goes through for service, but the cases I mentioned are very serious and in many cases, (a life or death situation). You can't afford to gamble.

An Attorney always gives his Client the best service possible because he/She wants to keep you as a Client and also have you recommend Him/Her to Friends and Family for Business Growth. I like to also look at my Job as a Support system to Attorneys.

Now to go back to the main reason Attorneys and People use the Sheriff department, COST. This in many or most cases is an illusion. As I said, each time it goes through the Sheriff Dept. it is extra!!!! Per Document is charged, if the documents being served include, a summons, Restraining order, etc. plus you pay mileage on top of the fee for service. It may not be as inexpensive as it looks. Then when all is said and done and you have done this about three times, you turn to someone like me.

Who or What am I?

A Special Process Server. A Court Officer. I am Licensed through the St. Louis Sheriff Department, Authorized to serve any of the Court documents. A Person who will spend the time on those cases, even hard to serve or evading service and get them served. A person who truly cares about people and does want to help and can if you just call or e-mail.

It don't cost to call and ask questions, (call me, I will take the time to answer your questions). I will make those papers worth the paper they are written on. I will serve and remove that abusive Spouse, (With Court order), I will serve the eviction documents and get possession and back rent, because I will get those Defendants served.

NOW, I do not publish price on the web, however, if you call me and need my service, I will tell you. What I can tell you is. I charge a very reasonable flat rate fee per document, discounted to serve more then one person at the same address. no mileage fee. and unlimited attempts until document is served or in the unlikely reason the document expires.(this happens when the document is received with a day or two to serve a hard to serve person before the document expires).

PLEASE take a moment to visit my web site below and contact us. If we are not in your area for service, visit my web site (link below) on the home page, you Will see two links, one to ( NAPPS) and the other is (Servenow.com). These links will link you to Process servers across the Country whom also have very high standards to get your documents served. I hope this helps. Lets get those papers served and you can get on with your life. After all, you did not come to this site just because you wanted to read, DID YOU? Thank you for reading my post. Mike