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Owning a home is an enormous accomplishment, but unfortunately often a source of stress, anxiety, and financial difficulty. Perhaps you have experienced unexpected life changes, unemployment, or other difficulties that have made your previously affordable mortgage payment now out of your reach. You may assume that foreclosure is your only option, but before throwing in the towel for good, educate yourself and learn your alternatives.

Legal battles and lawsuits have become a fact of life, leading people across the country to need service of process. Service of process is the act of providing the defendant in a legal case with the proper paperwork notifying him that action is being taken against him and he must defend himself. Given that many people don’t want to be served, this can be a tricky task, to say the least. Process servers have been known to exercise extreme

What Exactly Is Service of Process? Unless you live in a utopian world, lawsuits are an unfortunate fact of life. Every court case involves a plaintiff, who files for the lawsuit, and a defendant, who is having the action taken against him and must defend himself. The United States requires that the defendant be properly notified of the court case. This is called maintaining Due Process of Law through Service of Process. Laws and rules differ in each state, of

Process servers have a difficult job to do and there is no question there will be certain assignments that will test not only a server’s patience but their skillset. No matter how challenging a person may be to locate and serve, the process server must never resort to taking unscrupulous measures just to call the task complete. Unfortunately sloppy and often blatantly dishonest practices have been cropping up in the media more often, giving process servers a deplorable reputation. Foreclosure

A seasoned debt collector or skip tracer has an uncanny ability that allows them to read a person on the phone. This is a valuable skill to develop, especially in cases where after you have located your target, you must now locate an asset for your client. With practice and a little know-how, you can read between the lines to figure out if your subject is lying and how to beat them at their own game. Compel Information from Silence

In the fields involving skip tracing, including private investigation and accounts receivable, timing is everything when it comes to the turnaround between locating contact information and getting the subject on the phone. Searching for updated contact information can be a continuous process for some subjects who lack much stability, often changing phones and residences as they bounce from place to place. The ability to locate the subject quickly directly affects the ability to act to collect or serve papers. To

When becoming a process server, certain things are to be expected. The new process server will already know they will be in contact with some unsavory people pretty much every day. They will also know they may enter some less-than-peachy areas in order to serve a subject. What takes many new process servers by surprise however is just how dangerous the job can be. While “serve ‘em and leave ‘em” is the best strategy, things sometimes do not go that

The state of Florida has different statues for residential and commercial evictions. The information in this article only applies to residential evictions. There can be any number of reasons why property owners need tenants to leave a property. At times, the only remedy is to evict the tenants. In the state of Florida, as elsewhere, there are certain steps that have to be taken first. Here is a brief outline of those steps. For more detailed instructions, consult Chapter 83

The Latin term Lis Pendens means simply “pending lawsuit”. In essence, it is a reference to which jurisdiction will control a law suit that is awaiting legal or court action. In practical terms, it is a notice that is filed in the public records office that shows (or states) that a certain property is under some form of legal action, and if someone should buy that property before the suit is settled the buyer may be subject to claims on