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'''Note:''' If the process server serves the Notice of Family Claim based on a photograph and does not, or is not able to obtain the spouses’ driver’s license number, the client must swear an additional affidavit confirming the identity of his or her spouse in the photograph used. | '''Note:''' If the process server serves the Notice of Family Claim based on a photograph and does not, or is not able to obtain the spouses’ driver’s license number, the client must swear an additional affidavit confirming the identity of his or her spouse in the photograph used. | ||
If the respondent’s address is not known, the client should write letters to friends and family members to try to locate him or her. The client might also want to consider hiring the services of a skiptracing agency. This takes extra time, but will avoid the additional costs associated with | If the respondent’s address is not known, the client should write letters to friends and family members to try to locate him or her. The client might also want to consider hiring the services of a skiptracing agency. This takes extra time, but will avoid the additional costs associated with a substitute service application. | ||
In | In a substitute service application, the client must make an extra application to obtain permission toserve the respondent in a way other than that normally required by the ''Supreme Court Family Rules''. The client may also incur the cost of publishing notices in a local newspaper and or the Gazette, which could cost anywhere between $111 and $315, depending on the order given. Other options include posting a copy of the substitution service order and the pleadings in the Court Registry, mailing them to the respondent’s last known address by registered mail, or serving an adult in the house where the respondent is believed to reside, or serving the respondent through e-mail or Facebook. | ||
== I. Costs == | == I. Costs == | ||