Process serving done right. Notes on California service-of-process law, AB747 documentation, the registered-agent corridor, and why the paperwork is the part that wins cases.
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Start the Serve →The SPARE Act's photograph requirement has dominated the coverage. The burden-shifting set-aside procedure in new CCP 473.2 will dominate the motion practice. The transition rule that covers 2026 filings, the citation trap in the paired repeal-and-replace sections, and five things to change now.
Read →CT Corporation accepts service for more California defendants than any other registered agent, from one suite in Glendale: 330 N Brand Blvd, Suite 700. The mechanics, the statute, and the verification step that keeps the serve valid.
Read →NRAI shares Suite 700 at 330 N Brand with CT Corporation. The serve is a single counter drop; the risk is naming the wrong sister brand on the proof of service. The distinction, and the section 1505 roster check that protects it.
Read →Sue a small LLC and the agent line often reads United States Corporation Agents, Inc., LegalZoom's default designation, at 500 N Brand Blvd, Suite 890, Glendale. Why small-LLC files need double verification before anyone drives.
Read →All five California restraining order types share the same floor: the respondent must be personally served at least 5 calendar days before the hearing. No substituted service, no mail, and the one person who can never do the serving is the person the order protects.
Read →Ask three process servers and you will hear 'three attempts' three times. Under current California law there is no magic number: reasonable diligence is a case-law standard, and the 3/3/3 bright line everyone cites does not take effect until January 1, 2027.
Read →Rule of Court 3.110 gives you 60 days from filing to serve every defendant and file the proofs. The trap is that some service methods are not complete the day the papers change hands, so the real working window is shorter than the calendar suggests.
Read →Yes. No California statute restricts what day of the week, or what hour of the day, a summons may be served. The 8am-to-8pm rule people cite comes from CCP section 1011, which governs a different kind of paper entirely.
Read →CCP section 116.340(b) requires service at least 15 days before the hearing if the defendant lives in the county, 20 if outside it. And there is a second, separately missed deadline: the proof of service must be on file 5 days before the hearing.
Read →There is a 45-foot cell tower outside my window that should not exist. The lawsuit to stop it was dismissed on a technicality: the one party that had to be served, Verizon Wireless, was served twelve days too late.
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