Q: How can we get a "homeless" NCP served?
My husband filed for Child support in Jan. 2019 against his son's mother, the NCP. He has full physical custody and joint legal custody. The NCP is "homeless" on paper, and the sheriff has been unable to serve her at any address available. She visits the child regularly at our home, extracurricular sporting events, and sometimes school functions but because they are public places and specific days and times, she continues to dodge service.
We have asked her to visit the support office to work out an agreement to no avail. How can we push the process forward. The CS office has advised that she MUST be served personally by the sheriff.
A: If you have specific dates/times that she will be there for visitation, you can have a private process server serve her during those visitation periods. Oftentimes, you can arrange a specific time and place with a process server, where this is not typically an option with the Sheriff's Office.
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A: You definitely need a private process server to accomplish service.
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