For the best service of process, lawyers, firms, businesses, and private individuals should hire a process server rather than a sheriff. Process servers are professionals solely dedicated to successfully serving individuals. Process servers’ success rate, speed, and costs are all better than sheriff’s.
What is a summons?
A Summons is a document or writ directing the sheriff or other officer to notify a person that an action has been commenced against that individual and that he or she is required to appear, on a certain day, and answer the complaint in such action.