The Department shall be responsible for legally notifying parties of the Department’s intended action in Superior Court for Juvenile Matters. 

Service of process  “is the service of writs, complaints, and/or summonses, and signifies the delivering to or leaving them with the party to whom or with whom they ought to be delivered or left, and, when they are so delivered, they are then said to have been served.” 

“In the pleading stage of litigation, it is the delivery of the complaint to the defendant either to him personally or, in most jurisdictions, by leaving it with a responsible person at his place of residence.”