{"id":2172,"date":"2018-04-06T14:12:49","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T22:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trainingpips.com\/?page_id=2172"},"modified":"2019-04-18T03:06:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T11:06:13","slug":"ps-102-chapter-1-an-introduction-to-personal-service-case-law","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.trainingpips.com\/index.php\/ps-102-a-course-outline\/ps-102-understanding-case-summaries\/ps-102-chapter-1-an-introduction-to-personal-service-case-law\/","title":{"rendered":"PS 102 – Chapter 1 – An Introduction to Personal Service Case Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

Personal service<\/a> is the preferred type of service in almost any situation. In general, it can be described like this: Service is made by presenting the service documents directly to the person<\/a> being served.<\/strong><\/p>\n

RCW 4.28.080<\/a>(16) governs this type of service. Here is the pertinent wording: “In all other cases, to the defendant<\/a> personally.”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The language is so simple that there is relatively little case<\/a> law<\/a> on this subject. Mistakes made when making personal service<\/a> usually relate to some other aspect of service, such as missing a statute of limitations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Personal service<\/a> can only be made on a natural person<\/a>. It is not possible to obtain personal service<\/a> on other entities such as corporations or political subdivisions. In those cases the documents are presented to a natural person<\/a> who has been designated by law<\/a> as the person<\/a> to whom the papers must be presented in order to achieve service on that entity<\/a>. For instance, to serve a corporation<\/a> you can present the documents to its registered agent<\/a>. By doing so you are not serving the registered agent<\/a> but simply presenting them to him or her in order to achieve service on the corporation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Personal service<\/a> is the preferred type of service in almost any situation. In general, it can be described like this: Service is made by presenting the service documents directly to the person<\/a> being served. RCW 4.28.080(16) governs this type of service. Here is the pertinent wording: “In all other cases, to the defendant<\/a> personally.” The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":2170,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2172","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trainingpips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trainingpips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trainingpips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trainingpips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trainingpips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trainingpips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2172\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trainingpips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trainingpips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}