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Process Serving Resources for Ontario Clients

Use these practical guides to gather final documents supplied by you or your legal representative, recipient information, service addresses and instructions before opening the existing File & Serve request page. These guides do not select forms or prepare legal documents for you.

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Understand the administrative process before submitting

These resources explain how to submit an administrative service request, what affects pricing, how records of our own service work, and how filing differs from process serving. Document handling is limited to printing and technical assembly of final client-supplied documents. We do not select forms, draft or revise legal content, review legal sufficiency, provide legal advice or represent clients.

How to Request Process Serving in OntarioA practical checklist for sending documents, recipient details, address information, deadlines and service instructions to a process server in Ontario.What Affects Process Server Cost in Ontario?Learn how service plan, destination postal code, travel, urgency, additional parties, printing and affidavit requests can affect process serving cost.Affidavit of Service and Service Records in OntarioUnderstand the difference between a factual record of our own service, service confirmation and an Affidavit of Service prepared from our actual server’s record of service performed by File & Serve.Court Filing vs. Process Serving: What Is the Difference?A plain-language explanation of the difference between physically filing documents at a courthouse and serving documents on a person or organization.What Information Does a Process Server Need?A checklist of recipient, address, access, timing, document and file details that help a process server plan attempts and maintain an accurate record.What Happens After Process Serving?Learn what service confirmation, attempt notes, affidavit requests, document return and client follow-up may look like after process serving.

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