Serving Court Papers – 8th Judicial District

Чтобы начать дело в суде по семейным делам, вам необходимо подать петиция (pe-TI-shun). A petition is when you ask the court to make a decision about something. The person who starts a case is called the проситель. Человека, стоящего на другой стороне дела, называют ответчик (re-SPON-dent). After you file a petition, the respondent must be told about the case.

Вы делаете это, передавая судебные документы непосредственно ответчику. Это называется Личная служба. Это также можно назвать предоставлением респонденту уведомление of the case. The court has very strict rules about how to serve papers. If papers are not served correctly, your case will not move forward.

You are NOT allowed to personally serve papers in your own case. Any person 18 years or older may serve papers, except the petitioner or respondent in your case. The person can be a friend, relative, or anyone else. You can also hire a professional to serve the papers for you. They are listed in the phone book under Process Servers. The Office of the Sheriff will also deliver papers for a fee.

Как правило, все документы могут быть поданы в любой день недели, кроме воскресенья. Они должны быть вручены не позднее, чем за восемь дней до даты суда.

A petition that includes an order of protection can be served any day of the week, even Sunday, at any time.
It must be served at least 24 hours before the court date.

Некоторые документы, такие как приказ об обосновании, могут содержать конкретные указания судьи о том, когда и как они должны быть вручены. Вы должны точно следовать этим указаниям.

Да. У вас будет время попытаться найти ответчика или нанять процессуальный сервер, который найдет ответчика и вручит вам документы.

If the court date comes and you have not been able to serve the papers, you should give the judge a written list of all of the ways you tried to serve the respondent. The list should include dates and places where you tried to have the respondent served. Places can include the home, the place of work, or the school of the respondent, or any place else where you think the respondent may be. The judge may set a new date for the case and ask you to keep trying. Or the judge may say you can serve the papers in another way. This is called альтернативная служба.

Альтернативная услуга может быть:

• Serving a person who works with the respondent who will give the papers to the respondent

• Serving someone at the home of the respondent who will give the papers to the respondent

• Placing an advertisement in a newspaper

• Attaching the papers to the front door of the respondent

The judge can tell you how to serve the respondent. You must serve the respondent the way the judge tells you to. Вы не сможете служить ни одним из этих способов, если судья не даст вам разрешения.

When you use alternate service, you should also send a copy of the papers by certified mail/return receipt requested to the last residence you can find for the respondent. The post office will tell you how to do this. This is very important. If the respondent does not show up at the next court date, you can give the court a copy of the certified mail receipt signed by the respondent to prove that he or she received the papers. This proof, combined with one of the above ways of serving, may allow your case to go forward.

Ан Аффидевит службы is a piece of paper that shows the court that you had the papers served in the correctway. The affidavit must include the following information:

• When the papers were served

• Where the papers were served

• Who the papers were served on

• A physical description of the person the papers were served on

• The name and address of the person who served the papers

Если вы вручаете документы по почте, в письменных показаниях должно быть указано, откуда и куда были отправлены документы.

Если документы отправляются заказным письмом, вы должны приложить квитанцию о вручении заказного письма к своим показаниям.

Аффидевит о вручении должен быть нотариально заверенный. Это означает, что лицо, которое подает документы, должно подписать аффидевит перед нотариусом.

Обратите внимание: лицо, которому вручена услуга, не подписывает Аффидевит о вручении.

Когда вы пойдете в суд, вы должны предоставить ОРИГИНАЛ Аффидевита о вручении судье. Вам также следует сделать копию показаний под присягой и хранить ее вместе с остальными судебными документами.

This affidavit is the only proof the court will accept that the respondent was served. It shows the court that the respondent knows about the case and knows what day he or she is expected to be in court. Without the originalAffidavit of Service, your case will not go forward.

А государственный нотариус, или нотариус, — это тот, кто наблюдает, как люди подписывают свои имена на официальных документах, и получает доказательства того, что эти люди подписывают свои настоящие имена.

У некоторых нотариусов есть офисы рядом со зданиями суда. Во многих банках, адвокатских конторах и аптеках есть нотариус. Нотариус может взимать плату в размере до $2 за каждую подпись.

To serve an охранный ордер, go to the police precinct closest to where the respondent lives or to the Office of the Sheriff in the county where the respondent lives. A police officer or sheriff will serve the order of protection papers for you for free. Ask the police officer or the sheriff for the special affidavit that they have to sign.

Обратите внимание, что временный охранный ордер не действует до тех пор, пока он не будет вручен.

If you were not served properly, but you know when the court date is, you have a few choices.

• If you are ready to go forward with your case, you may go to the court on the scheduled date and tell the judge. The judge may ask you to accept service in the courtroom. The judge will hear your case on that day.

• If you are not prepared, you may go to court on the scheduled date and ask the judge to set another court date at a later time. The judge may ask you to accept service in the courtroom.

• If you want to be served in the right way, you can go to court and tell the judge that you were not served properly. You can ask the judge to have a hearing about whether or not you were served properly. If the judge decides that you were not served in the right way, the judge might order that you be served again.

• If you are sure that you were not served in the right way, you do not have to appear, or show up, in court. But just to be safe, if you do not go to court on a scheduled date, check the court file. You want to be sure that no decisions were made when you were not there.

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