Legal and process serving
Superior Court affidavits of service, drafted from the record for every way service was made.
Spirit reads the ServeManager job or the filed documents, chooses the affidavit for the way service was made, and fills your own Form 16B template with the court, the file number, the parties and the service details.
The work today
A Superior Court filing can run to forty pages, and the affidavit needs details from both ends of it: the title of proceeding and court file number at the front, and the serving firm's block on the back.
Your office likely keeps a version of the affidavit for each way service is made, and choosing the wrong one costs as much as a typo.
How Spirit does it
It reads the record
One lookup of the ServeManager job returns every attempt with its service type, its note and its server, and the documents that were served.
It reads both ends of the filing
Only the first and last pages of a long claim, where the caption and the serving firm's details are. The pages between are left unread.
It chooses the template
Personal service, alternate to personal service, corporation, bad address or evading service. Each has its own template and its own wording.
It writes the attempts
For a bad address or evading service, every attempt in order, sworn in the first person, keeping each fact the server recorded and adding none.
It fills and files
Your template filled, saved as Word and PDF, named your way and filed where your team works.
What comes back
- A filled Form 16B in Word and PDF for each service, ready to swear
- The right one of your templates, chosen from the service type recorded
- A sworn account of attempts for bad address and evading service, built from the server's own notes
What stays with a person
- Spirit drafts the affidavit. Your process server reviews it and swears it
- The account of attempts keeps every fact the server recorded and adds none
- Dates and times are used exactly as recorded
- ServeManager is read, never changed
Works with
- ServeManager
- Your own Word templates
- Filed documents as PDF, scans included
Questions
- Which kinds of service does it cover?
- Personal service, alternate to personal service, service on a corporation, service at a bad address and evading service, each from its own template.
- Can it work without ServeManager?
- Yes. Upload the filing and answer a short form. Spirit offers your roster of process servers as a list, and remembers a new one the first time your clerk types it in.
- Does it read the whole claim?
- No. It reads the first and last pages, where the details an affidavit needs are, which keeps each run quick and inexpensive.
- Will it use our wording?
- Yes. It fills your own Word templates, so the affidavit reads the way your office has always written it.