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Service Via Social Networking?

Wednesday, March 28, 2012 by Guest Blogger

Guest blog post by Julie Brook, Esq., Legal Editor with the CEB blog

Serving a complaint via Facebook may be in our future. As BusinessWeek.com reports, the practice of online legal service is spreading around the world as courts look for new ways to keep their dockets moving.

In California, service of summons is generally made by

personal service (CCP §415.10),
substituted service (CCP §415.20),
service by mail and acknowledgment of receipt (CCP §415.30), or
service by publication when the plaintiff cannot with reasonable diligence serve the defendant by any of the other methods (CCP §415.50).

Service of notices and other papers may be made by mail in most circumstances. CCP §1012. Electronic service, i.e., serving papers by e-mail, is...