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.