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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nServing a Juvenile is governed under Florida is governed by Florida Statute, Chapter 48, section 041. When serving a minor, the actual process of service is made to a parent, guardian, or guardian ad litem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fortunately, it is not often that a process server needs to serve a juvenile. No one likes to think of kids as involved in crimes, and thank goodness, juvenile crime has plummeted. According to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, in the aggregate, juvenile crime has fallen drastically since its high in 1996. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","content-type":"","advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"series":[],"post_folder":[],"ppma_author":[487],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-process-service"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","author_meta":{"display_name":"Mike Weaver","author_link":"https:\/\/360legal.net\/blog\/author\/admin360\/"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[{"link":"https:\/\/360legal.net\/blog\/author\/admin360\/","display_name":"Mike Weaver"}],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Process Service<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Process Service<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":0,"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 5 years ago","modified":"Updated 5 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on January 7, 2020","modified":"Updated on January 7, 2020"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on January 7, 2020 5:07 pm","modified":"Updated on January 7, 2020 5:07 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":null,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2025-03-04 00:00:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"authors":[{"term_id":487,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"admin360","display_name":"Mike Weaver","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6a6147e47b7bdea200aa1360f7b115ee?s=96&d=mm&r=g","first_name":"Mike","last_name":"Weaver","user_url":"https:\/\/360legal.net\/blog","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/360legal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/360legal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/360legal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/360legal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/360legal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/360legal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/360legal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/360legal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/360legal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/360legal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/360legal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/360legal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/360legal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}48.041\u2003Service on minor.\u2014
(1)\u2003Process against a minor who has never been married shall be served:
(a)\u2003By serving a parent or guardian of the minor as provided for in s. 48.031 or, when there is a legal guardian appointed for the minor, by serving the guardian as provided for in s. 48.031.
(b)\u2003By serving the guardian ad litem or other person, if one is appointed by the court to represent the minor. Service on the guardian ad litem is unnecessary when he or she appears voluntarily or when the court orders the appearance without service of process on him or her.
(2)\u2003In all cases heretofore adjudicated in which process was served on a minor as prescribed by any law heretofore existing, the service was lawfully made, and no proceeding shall be declared irregular or illegal if a guardian ad litem appeared for the minor.
History.\u2014ss. 1, 2, ch. 7853, 1919; CGL 4273, 4274; s. 1, ch. 19175, 1939; CGL 1940 Supp. 4274(13); s. 2, ch. 29737, 1955; s. 4, ch. 67-254; s. 1, ch. 84-176; s. 270, ch. 95-147.Note.\u2014Former ss. 47.23-47.25.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"