It's usually best to get a legal document server to serve divorce papers. Here are two reasons why.

To ensure they reach your spouse on time

Depending on where you reside in Australia, you may have a deadline by which you must serve the divorce papers before the court proceedings are supposed to begin. If this is the case, it's essential to use a legal document server's service as this is the best way to ensure that your spouse is served the papers by the deadline. If, for example, you ask a friend to serve the papers and your spouse is not an easy person to track down, your friend might not manage to serve your spouse these documents before the deadline (especially if your friend has a family or a job and cannot spend a lot of time trying to locate your current spouse).

In contrast, because a legal document server's entire job centres around helping to find and serve papers to those named on the documents their clients have given them and because they know how to overcome all of the common tactics that people do to try to avoid being served papers that they are expecting, they'll be far more likely to get the papers to your soon-to-be-ex-spouse by the date you need them to. This should then mean that you won't have to worry about having to postpone the court date for your divorce because you didn't serve the papers on time.

To avoid putting your friend or family member in an awkward position

Even though you can have a friend or relative do this task, it is still best to get it done by a legal document server. The reason for this is that after you are married to someone for a few years, all of your friends may have become mutual friends.

As such, if you ask someone who knows both you and your spouse, then you might be putting them in a very awkward position by asking them to give your ex these papers (especially if your ex is likely to have an emotional reaction to receiving them). If this turns out to be a trying experience for this person, then this could put a strain on your connection with them. A legal document server, on the other hand, is a completely neutral person who will not be affected by your spouse overreacting to being served the papers and who will also remain completely calm and professional in the face of any such reaction (which might not be the case if a family member or friend has to do this favour for you).

To learn more, contact a legal document server.