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Policy
Manual
COURTS
Service of Process
46-3-33.2
Introduction
| Policy | The Department is responsible for legally notifying parties of the Department's intended action in Superior Court for Juvenile Matters. Each regional office and sub-office shall designate a service of process coordinator who shall be responsible for arranging and recording all service of process activity. |
| Definition | Service of process is
"...the service of writs, complaints, summonses, etc., 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, 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." "Usually a copy only is served and the original is shown. The service must furnish reasonable notice to defendant of proceedings to afford him opportunity to appear and be herd."* *Black's Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition, page 1368. |
Connecticut Department of Children and Families Effective Date: March 17, 1997 (Revised)
