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To: DMaA who wrote (199469)	3/17/2007 9:40:00 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793917

That might be different from state to state. Here, if a sheriff shoves papers under your door, you're considered served.

To: DMaA who wrote (199469)	3/17/2007 2:02:14 PM
From: D. Long	Respond to of 793917

Don't citizens have any obligation to accept official court papers? If you avoid them forever does that nullify them? You are perfectly within your rights to avoid a process server. Under the state and federal rules of civil procedure, a plaintiff has so many days to serve a defendant (120 days usually), and if they don't the suit is dismissed. There are some real interesting stories of old process serving techniques, like stalking the reluctant defendant and throwing the papers at him - if they touch the defendant he was served. The ingenuity of people in playing cat and mouse is amazing.