Legal and process serving
Small Claims affidavits of service, drafted from the record and ready to swear.
Give Spirit a ServeManager job number, or the claim and a few answers. It drafts the Ontario Small Claims Court affidavit in your own template, Form 8A for service or Form 15B, with the court, the parties and the service details filled in, as Word and PDF.
The work today
An affidavit of service is copy work under oath. The court and claim number come off the claim, the parties off its first page, and the date, time, address and server off the attempt record. A clerk retypes them into a Word template and checks every line, because a wrong date on a sworn document means doing it again.
Each way of serving reads differently: personal service, a copy left at the home, service on a corporation, or several attempts at an address the person has left.
How Spirit does it
Start from the job or the claim
With a ServeManager job number, Spirit reads the attempts, the server and the documents served. Without one, upload the claim and answer a short form.
It reads the court block
The court, its address, the claim number and the parties come from the first page of the claim. Spirit opens only the pages it needs.
It picks the right affidavit
The service type recorded decides the form and the wording: personal, alternate to personal, corporation, bad address or evading service.
It asks for what is not written down
If a fact is in nobody's document, such as which process server swore it or the address actually served, Spirit asks your clerk and offers your roster of process servers as a list.
It fills your template
Your own Word template, filled field by field, saved as Word and PDF, and named the way your office names affidavits.
What comes back
- A filled Form 8A or Form 15B in Word and PDF, ready for the server to review and swear
- One affidavit for each person served
- The date, time and address exactly as the server recorded them
What stays with a person
- Spirit drafts the affidavit. Your process server reviews it and swears it before a commissioner
- Dates and times are used exactly as recorded, never converted or rounded
- ServeManager is read, never changed
- When a needed fact is missing, Spirit asks rather than putting a guess on a sworn document
Works with
- ServeManager
- Your own Word templates
- Claims as PDF, scans included
Questions
- Which Small Claims forms does it fill?
- Form 8A, the affidavit of service, and Form 15B, the general affidavit. Both are filled from your own templates, so they match what your office already files.
- Do we need ServeManager?
- No. With ServeManager, a job number is enough. Without it, upload the claim and answer a short form about the service.
- Can it handle more than one person served?
- Yes. One affidavit is drafted for each person served, each with its own service details.
- Who signs it?
- Your process server. Spirit drafts it from the record, and a person reviews it and swears it.