NY judge allows legal papers to be served via Facebook

[thewayne]

Now, this is the New York Post, not the most reputable news source, but still....

Guy was trying to serve papers on his ex-wife who had moved and left no forwarding address, however, she was an active poster on FB. So the judge said 'go for it'. What I don't get is don't subpoena services have research resources that we mere mortals don't for tracking people down?

http://nypost.com/2014/09/18/judge-oks-serving-legal-papers-via-facebook/

Comments

[silveradept]

One would think that was the case, especially for people whose job it is to find people and serve them with papers. And/or the private investigators that could be employed to do so.

[moiraj.livejournal.com]

I think it would be too easy for a Facebook user to claim they didn't get the papers.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

There's a lot of weird laws re: how official are papers. For example, a lot of businesses have fax machines because they think that it'd be too easy to alter a PDF or similar image for sending such via email. They totally ignore that it's really easy to hack a fax transmission.

I personally think this was a pretty stupid decision. The guy shouldn't have had a problem hiring a process serving operation to find and serve her, and if they couldn't, he shouldn't pay them.