State + Federal
The jurisdiction's rules authorize service of its own courts' process by a private adult who is not a party. This practice serves state-court and federal process alike.
State + Federal
Federal + Appointed State Matters
Federal Only
Outside the Service Area
Home Base — Rhode Island
Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands appear in the lower rows. Federal process is available throughout the service area under Rule 4(c)(2) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
The Categories
Federal + Appointed State Matters
State-court process belongs in the first instance to sheriffs, constables, or marshals. A private server acts where the court appoints the server for the matter, or a statute expressly authorizes it — and this practice accepts state-court work on exactly that basis, alongside federal process.
Federal Only
The state licenses, certifies, or registers its private process servers, and this practice does not hold that credential. Matters in these states are accepted for federal process, which federal law authorizes in every state.
Outside the Service Area
Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands lie outside the area this practice serves, whatever their rules permit. The service area is the forty-eight contiguous states, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Home Base, Rapid Region, and the Road
Rhode Island is home. From it, the rest of New England — Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine — is served on a rapid basis: federal process as of right, and state-court matters on the appointed or statutory basis each state's law provides. Beyond New England, assignments travel: federal process throughout the service area, and state-court process in every state whose rules authorize a private server to make it.
No claim on this page exceeds the law behind it. Where a matter cannot be taken, the firm is told so before anything is accepted — never after.
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