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19th Judicial Circuit – Service of Process Suspended. (Martin, Saint Lucie, Indian River, and Okeechobee Counties) issued Administrative Order AO 2020-01. This was later followed up by a letter of clarification from Chief Judge Lawrence Mirman who confirmed the...

Personal Service Outside the State – Part 1

This statute is one of the longer ones about which we’ve written, so we’ll be breaking it up into multiple parts, with successive parts following one another in the series. This statute deals with the service of process on someone outside the state. Odd as that might...

Service on Nonresidents Operating Aircraft/Watercraft

So far in this series, we’ve seen quite a laundry list of different circumstances and conditions under which process can be served, and the manner in which it must be served depending upon the intended recipient. The further down in the list of statutes we go the more...

Service on Nonresident Motor Vehicle Owners

The actual procedure for service of process as outlined in this statute is fairly straightforward but is overshadowed by the litany of definitions involved in describing exactly what is meant by a ‘nonresident motor vehicle owner’, so it would be best to dispense with...

Method of Substituted Service on Nonresident

Yet another situation regarding service of process that is covered by the Florida statutes is when a process must be served on either a non-resident or a person who is concealing their whereabouts. Provided it has been approved by law, service can be made on an...
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