ALTERNATIVE FORM OF SERVICE (DOMESTIC RELATIONS SUIT)

This packet is for a person who has filed a petition for divorce, separation, custody or parenting time (visitation), and cannot complete service by the usual methods, including: • personal service (having the papers delivered directly to respondent), • substitute service (delivery of papers to a person living at respondent’s home who is at least 14 years old, and mailing of documents to home address), • office service (delivery of papers to the person apparently in charge at respondent’s office during working hours), and • service by mail (delivery to respondent by first class mail and by certified, registered or express mail provided respondent signs a receipt for the certified, registered or express mail. The respondent must not be a minor or incapacitated. The law requires that you try to locate respondent through all possible methods before an alternative method of service is allowed. This may include contacting respondent’s employer, friends and relatives, public utilities, the post office, and any other entity or person that might know of respondent’s whereabouts. These forms allow you to request permission from the Court to use one of the following methods of service: publication, posting, or mailing to a specified post office address.

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