Florida Process Service | Mid Florida Court Services LLC

The best Florida Process Servers

Florida Process Server located in Lakeland, serving all process in Central Florida.

Your trusted and experienced Florida Process Server

We pride ourselves in being your best choice for all things legal support. We have been providing these services for over 22 years.

In the State of Florida, all Process Servers MUST be properly trained, and Certified. They must then be duly appointed. Our Process Service agents in Florida are either Court or Sheriff Appointed, depending on county or circuit requirements.

In addition, our Certified or Special Process Servers have years of experience handling all types of Civil and Criminal Proces, from Summons and Complaint, Small Claims actions, Writ of Garnishment, Order to appear, Subpoena for Discovery, Small Claims, and more.

We react to every situation and explore all legal avenues to complete service, utilizing all resources to have the most up-to-date information about the person or business we are serving, to ensure you receive the best possible outcome, every time.

*Please Note: We REQUIRE Pre-payment for ALL services UNLESS you are a LOCAL LAW FIRM in Central Florida with an approved agreement made by our office.

Levels of service

We offer three levels of service to complete your assignments effectively and on time.

Our levels of service are designed to ensure your documents are served sooner than required, and to account for minimum court rule requirements for court dates and statutory regulations.

For more information, or for any questions you may have, please check out our FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS or CONTACT US.

ROUTINE

Our Process Service Agent will attempt your document service up to FOUR* times at ONE address.

We will make one attempt each as follows: Morning, Afternoon, Evening, Saturday.

These attempts will happen over a 10 to 14 day period, with the first attempt of service made within 72 hours of receipt of your case, and payment, in our office.

PRIORITY

Our Process Service Agent will attempt your document service up to FOUR* times at ONE address.

We will make one attempt each as follows: Morning, Afternoon, Evening, and a fourth attempt will be made at the service agents discretion, depending on what they see during the first three attempts.

These attempts will happen over a 5 to 7 day period, with the first attempt of service made within 48 hours of receipt of your case, and payment, in our office.

SAME-DAY RUSH

Our Process Service Agent will attempt to serve your case the SAME DAY it is received, with payment, in our office. Often we make this first attempt within an hour or less.

Three additional attempts will be made to serve your case within the next 24 hours, excluding Sunday, or Public Holiday, Per Florida Statues.

Because our Agents have mobile devices installed in their vehicles, we are able to print the case even on the road. This cuts down on having to drive back to our office to print your documents for service.

We often handle these types of cases when a court date is quickly approaching, and a witness is needed at very quick notice.

Difficult to serve case? No problem!

Our experience has shown that we can serve over 90 percent of cases using the above outlined practices. In the event a defendant or witness is EVASIVE, more specific and specialised efforts may be required.

We are able to skip-trace a defendant or witness, to obtain the latest information from several databases, in an attempt to locate and effect service on your target.

If we determine an address to be bad, we will contact you with options to proceed.

The T's and C's

*If an address given is found to be bad (i.e. vacant, or we confirm with neighbour, or someone at the address, who states to us the person we seek does not live there, we do not attempt again at this address. Attempts to serve a defendant/witness at an additional address requires a new fee. Attempts are not transferable between addresses.

No refunds can be given once we make one attempt to serve a case.

Whether this is your first time using a Florida Process Server, or you have been using them for years, we are certain to leave you wanting to work with us again.

The ultimate goal is to leave you satisfied, and impressed with our ability to exceed your expectations, every time.

Our Florida Process Servers can handle your request for ROUTINE, PRIORITY, or RUSH service.

Corporate and Registered Agent Process Services

Florida Process Servers serving Registered Agent and Corporate Process Service in Florida.

Corporate Service of Process

When serving legal documents to a corporation, you must serve the registered agent. Many of the large corporations use what is called a "REGISTERED AGENT SERVICE"

We have LOCAL servers close to ALL the Registered Agent Services located in Florida. We are able to provide Routine, Priority, and Same-Day RUSH Process Service to all of them.

We offer special pricing for volume requests to the same Registered Agent Service, and our turnaround time to these agents cannot be beat.

You can request a QUOTE by clicking HERE

We serve the following Registered Agent Services:

Corporate Creations- 801 US-1, North Palm Beach, FL 33408

Corporation Service Company- 1201 Hays St, Tallahassee, FL 32301

CT Corporation System- 1200 S Pine Island Rd #250, Plantation, FL 33324

Florida Registered Agent LLC- 7901 4th St N, St. Petersburg, FL 33702

We serve all corporations in Central Florida

In addition to the above Registered Agent Corporations, we also serve all corporations at their listed Registered Agent address listed with the State of Florida.

If you are not sure where a Summons and Complaint, Subpoena, Garnishment, or other document should be served on a corporation, give us a call, we can help.

Florida Process Servers who care

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What is Process Service?

What is Process Service and what do I do if I am served?

Service of process is the procedure by which a party to a lawsuit gives an appropriate notice of initial legal action to another party, court, or administrative body in an effort to exercise jurisdiction over that person so as to enable that person to respond to the proceeding before the court, body, or other tribunal.

Notice is furnished by delivering a set of court documents (called "process") to the person to be served. This is typically in the form of a Summons.

Can I refuse to accept documents from a Process Server or Depyty sheriff?

No. The law provides that to provide false information to a Florida Process Server or Deputy Sheriff during their duties is a violation of Florida law.

Under Florida Statutes Chapter 843.01, It is an obstruction of justice to interfere with a Process Server during the course of his or her duties, which if it involves violence, is a third-degree felony, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.

Obstruction without violence under Florida Statutes Chapter 843.02, is a first-degree misdemeanor, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.

If a Process Server or Sheriff Deputy comes to your business to serve someone who is in your employ, you CANNOT interfere, or deny access to that employee in the State of Florida. If you do, you will be charged with a crime:

48.031 Service of process generally; service of witness subpoenas.—

(1)(a) … (b) An employer, when contacted by an individual authorized to serve process, shall allow the authorized individual to serve an employee in a private area designated by the employer. An employer who fails to comply with this paragraph commits a noncriminal violation, punishable by a fine of up to $1,000.

I have been served, now what?

When you are given legal documents by a Certified or Special Process Server, or a Deputy Sheriff in the State of Florida, it is important you read and respond to them.

Different types of documents have different time limits for you to respond, and understanding what you have been given is vital to understanding your rights under law.

For instance, a Summons and Complaint, which is usually served at the beginning of a case to establish jurisdiction and the basis for the case, has a time limit for you to file a written answer to the court. In Florida this is normally twenty (20) days from the day you are given this paperwork by the Process Server or Sheriff Deputy. Failure to answer a Summons means the court can find that the Plaintiff which filed the case against you, is granted a judgement against you by default, since you elected not to defend your case in the court. This could mean a money judgement is entered against you, or other judgment, which may be enforced by the court in the form of property seizure, garnishment of wages, bank accounts, tax returns, or liens against real property.

A subpoena, an order to appear, order to produce, or other court issued document which has a specific date to appear, or a deadline to produce documents to the court, or to another party in a case, carries with it the ability for the court to find you in contempt if you do not do what the paperwork says to do, by the deadline on the paperwork. This can mean arrest and imprisonment, fine, or both. DO NOT IGNORE THIS PAPERWORK!

If you have any questions, in regards to any paperwork you have been served, you must hire a lawyer. Neither Process Servers, Sheriff Deputy, or Court personnel can advise you, legally or otherwise, on what to do..

Still have questions? Visit our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page!

Answers to all your questions about Process Service, Eviction, Court Filing, and more in our FAQ.

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Who may serve Process in Florida?

Can I serve my own case, or can I have a friend do it?

The answer to this question is most definitely NO.

Florida Statutes 48.021 (1) states ONLY a Special Process Server appointed by the Sheriff, or a Certified Process Server appointed in accordance with 48.27 may serve any process in the State of Florida.

Each Circuit in the state is in charge of deciding whether the court will be in charge of appointing Certified Process Servers, or if they will delegate that authority to the Sheriff in each county of their Circuit.

At Mid Florida Court Services, all of our Process Servers are either Certified or Special Process Servers in the jurisdiction where they serve.

Our process servers are appointed in the Florida circuit court where they serve.

Our Florida Process Servers work in the courts for which they are appointed, as seen here.

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