Annette is listed in Strathmore’s Who’s Who of Business Professionals. She is also a notary public and member of the National Notary Association. To adhere to a higher standard of ethics, she joined the Inland Valley Association of Realtors, the California Association of Realtors and the National Association of Realtors. In 2009 she became a real estate broker forming G&G Real Estate. While serving as an Advisory Board Member of Maric College’s Legal Document Assistant Program in Pomona, she reviewed and gave input on their curriculum and spoke to the students about the legal document assistant profession. Until they disbanded, she was a member of the National Association of Legal Document Preparers. During that time, as President of the Inland Empire Chapter, she facilitated monthly educational workshops with attorneys, judges, and other professionals for the purpose of increasing professionalism in her field. After serving as an officer on the board of the California Association of Legal Document Assistants for 3 years, she was nominated to serve as Vice President in 2008. You can also find approved adjudicated newspapers on websites like .Īfter earning her Bachelor’s degree and Paralegal Certificate from California State University, Annette started Just Document Preparation in 1996. Each court may have a list published, but it is ultimately up to the petitioner to make sure the documents are published in the correct newspaper. They must be adjudicated, meaning the court must have approved them. It is important to note that you cannot choose any newspaper either. Smaller newspapers with a small circulation could be as little as a few hundred dollars, but in bigger newspapers with a larger circulation, newspaper publication fees can be as high as $1500. The newspaper is a third party business with no affiliation to the court, which means that they will have a fee to publish your notice. A fee waiver does cover this but for those who do not have a fee waiver the court fee for this is currently about $20-$100 depending on the court. The court may have a fee for the Judge to review your request and grant permission to do the serve by publication. Regardless if you have a granted fee waiver on file with the court, you will likely be spending a bit more than a traditional process server to complete your serve in this manner. It is important to know that this method of serve has extra costs associated with it. The court outlines instructions to complete the request on the above link, but Legal Document Assistants can also help with this requirement if you think you will need to serve by publication.Ĭosts to Serve by Publication. The court further requires permission to do the serve by publication, which is where your documented proof of searching comes into play. Second, you must have proof of these attempts, and third, after all that you were still unable to find the other party. First, you must have exercised due diligence.
Even though the California Court’s website described it above in one sentence, there is quite a bit of information there. Generally speaking, a serve by publication is an option available when you are able to prove to the court that you have tried as reasonably possible to locate the other person to be served. So when can a serve by publication be used. Essentially, even though the court documents have been filed, the court case starts moving when the other party has been served. This timeframe is the allowable time for the person served to file a response at the court. In California, a mandatory waiting period is started at the time of serve.
#CALIFORNIA LAW FILED DOCUMENTS MUST BE SERVED WITHIN FULL#
The person who does this is called the “server” or “process server.”” Full text found here. In “service of process” a third person (NOT you) is the one who actually delivers the paperwork to the other side.
The California Courts require certain tasks are completed before a serve by publication is allowed.įirst off, what is “service”? With regards to the California Courts, service is described as follows “”Service of process” means that the other party must get copies of any paper you file with the court. While Serve by Publication is an available option for serving someone, it is not the first available option.
The allowable method will vary depending on the type of case as well as some other factors such as the location of the parties, if they have previously filed documents on the case or even if you can locate them. In California, there are many different methods by which a person can be served with court documents.
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