Process Serving

Process serving is the lawful delivery of originating processes, motions, orders, and related documents to people who may not want to be found. Investigations Plus treats serve work as locate-plus-affidavit work, not as a courier with a clipboard. If the defendant is evasive, we skip-trace, watch, and serve in a way the affidavit can describe without embarrassment.

When this service is the right file

• A process server already failed at the last known address.
• The party works irregular hours, uses buzzers that never answer, or ducks into a garage.
• You need same-week service before a limitation or a hearing.
• Documents must be served at a workplace without creating a scene that poisons the litigation.
• Substitutional service will be argued and you need a record of genuine attempts.

How the investigation is done

We read the document, the last-known addresses, and any photos. Attempts are logged with times, descriptions of who answered, vehicles present, and conversations at the door. If the address is stale, skip tracing runs in parallel. Workplace serves are planned with counsel so we do not breach a court direction. We identify the recipient when we can, leave documents only as the Rules allow, and swear an affidavit of service that matches the notes — including failed attempts.

What you receive

• Attempt logs
• Affidavit of service
• Photographs of the premises when useful
• Skip-trace addendum if the address moved
• Notes supporting a substitutional-service motion if needed

Legal and ethical limits

Ontario’s Rules of Civil Procedure, family rules, and Small Claims rules each have their own service requirements. Serving the wrong person, or claiming personal service you did not achieve, is how cases get set aside. We do not fake service. We do not use fake emergency stories to flush someone from a unit.

Who typically retains this work

Law firms, paralegals, and in-house counsel. Private individuals sometimes need a demand letter served; we still do it by the book.

Where we handle these files

Daily coverage across the GTA and regular travel through Ontario. Other provinces are arranged; we do not pretend every Canadian address is a Toronto commute.

Related services

These investigations are often used together. Open any service to see how we handle it.

• Skip Tracing
• Court Filing
• Legal Support

If the clock is running and the last server left a sticky note, send the documents and the last-known addresses. We will tell you whether this is a same-day serve or a locate file.

Typical fact patterns

A process server already failed at the last known address. The party works irregular hours, uses buzzers that never answer, or ducks into a garage. You need same-week service before a limitation or a hearing. Documents must be served at a workplace without creating a scene that poisons the litigation. Substitutional service will be argued and you need a record of genuine attempts.

Deliverables in practice

Attempt logs Affidavit of service Photographs of the premises when useful Skip-trace addendum if the address moved Notes supporting a substitutional-service motion if needed We read the document, the last-known addresses, and any photos. Attempts are logged with times, descriptions of who answered, vehicles present, and conversations at the door. If the address is stale, skip tracing runs in parallel. Workplace serves are planned with counsel so we do not breach a court direction. We identify the recipient when we can, leave documents only as the Rules allow, and swear an affidavit of service that matches the notes — including failed attempts.

Law firms, paralegals, and in-house counsel. Private individuals sometimes need a demand letter served; we still do it by the book. Daily coverage across the GTA and regular travel through Ontario. Other provinces are arranged; we do not pretend every Canadian address is a Toronto commute.

If the clock is running and the last server left a sticky note, send the documents and the last-known addresses. We will tell you whether this is a same-day serve or a locate file. Ontario’s Rules of Civil Procedure, family rules, and Small Claims rules each have their own service requirements. Serving the wrong person, or claiming personal service you did not achieve, is how cases get set aside. We do not fake service. We do not use fake emergency stories to flush someone from a unit.

Process serving is the lawful delivery of originating processes, motions, orders, and related documents to people who may not want to be found. Investigations Plus treats serve work as locate-plus-affidavit work, not as a courier with a clipboard. If the defendant is evasive, we skip-trace, watch, and serve in a way the affidavit can describe without embarrassment. If the clock is running and the last server left a sticky note, send the documents and the last-known addresses. We will tell you whether this is a same-day serve or a locate file.