Serve Divorce Application

We are process servers, which are the frequently used option for serving a divorce application. When you need to serve a divorce application, serve a divorce, use a licensed process server, document server; to serve your divorce phone 1300 966 103, TEXT ONLY to 0428 762 722, email us at [email protected], alternately use our online Contact Us form, free quotes. We serve a court process, a divorce application, family law documents.

Getting divorced is a process, our part is known as divorce process serving. The Federal Circuit and Family Court (which is absorbing the Family Law Court) is where you apply for a divorce, in Australia. Once applied for, and processed ('sealed' by the court, meaning they have stamped it with the court stamp, the court seal, a court date), the application is generally served on the other party.

To provide a quote, we need to know the address for service, any other information about restrictions, hostility, or availability of subject you are aware of, what sort of proceeding it is, the number of pages, and any court date, or timings (e.g. urgent service). Urgent service does attract an extra cost. We do attempt to serve a divorce in a timely manner for you. We do provide an affidavit of service.

You can apply for a divorce online, the divorce may be submitted electronically, through the court portal, mailed in, or submitted at the court house in person. Once the forms are submitted, and the fee to the court paid, the divorce application is processed. This is referred to as sealing the application, because the court seal (stamp) is applied to the document. The sealed copy is what is served.

The divorce application has a court date set, there is a requirement to serve the divorce application 28 days clear of that court date; if it is apparent that the divorce cannot be served within time frames you may return to the court, and ask for an extension, a new court date, alternately you serve the divorce, and accept that the court date will be moved back to give the other party 28 days clear to respond, should they choose.

It is not generally acceptable to fail to meet the 28 days clear guideline. That the document has been served correctly is signified by an affidavit of service, by the server. If using a process server it becomes irrelevant (although still desirable) if the other part signs the acknowledgement of service.

At times a client will have chosen an alternate method to serve the documents, such as mailing them to the other party. These sometimes are directed to us for urgent service, as the other party has declined to complete, and return, the acknowledgement of service, which turns a normal document service, into an urgent service, or may require the application being returning to the court for an extension of the service time frame.

For most divorce applications the process is complete when you serve the divorce application prior to the 28 days clear cutoff, and a correct Affidavit of Service is returned to the court (the Acknowledgement of Service may accompany it, if they sign). The court process becomes a 'rubber stamp'.

If, when you go online, you are giving the option of picking a date for court we would suggest going three months ahead. The reason for this is the application can take days to be processed by the court, and returned to you online pigeon hole. You then have to contact the process server, arrange service, get the document served, get the affidavit back, submit it, and all this should be at least 28 days clear of the court date. It is worth noting that, even if everything goes smoothly you are not truly divorced until a month and a day after the court date of the decision.

Where the other party lodges some objection, or avoids service (which does happen), the process becomes harder, slower. Using a process server should avoid some of those issues. We are experienced, when you need to serve divorce papers.

To serve divorce application, serve divorce papers, serving divorce papers, divorce process serving, can be a difficult thing, in Australia. We see all sorts of unusual behaviours, to avoid service. We are licensed process servers, document servers, we serve court documents, we have a network across Australia. When you need to serve a divorce application, to serve divorce papers, you need a process server, contact us.

Serving divorce papers, serving a divorce application, serving Family Law documents, is part of what we do. We are an experienced document server service, a process serving, divorce process serving: as divorce servers we understand the requirements to serve, we are a process server service.