SERVICE OF PROCESS BY MAIL WITH NOTICE AND ACKNOWLEGMENT OF RECEIPT FORM - - This option requires that your spouse or defendant signs and dates a Notice and Acknowledgment of Receipt form and mails it to our offices. The Registered & Bonded process server will mail the documents with the Notice and Acknowledgment of Receipt form to your spouse or defendant via USPS Certified mail. Included in the mail is a postage prepaid stamped return envelope. Your spouse or defendant must VOLUNTARILY sign the one page Notice and Acknowledgment of Receipt form and must mail the signed form to our offices. Your divorce or civil case is stalled until we receive the signed document. Your spouse or defendant keeps all the other documents for their records. If your spouse or defendant will cooperate by doing this, the date of service will be the date your spouse or defendant signs the form. And for a divorce, this date is also the date on which your 6-month minimum termination of marriage waiting period begins. However, If your spouse or defendant will not cooperate, then they are not served - even if you have reliable proof that your spouse or defendant received the mail. If your spouse or defendant returns the signed and dated Acknowledgment form, the process server then completes a Proof of Service. The Proof of Service is either mailed to you to file in court or the Process Server files the Proof in court, together with the signed acknowledgment form. After 31 days from the date the form was signed, and no response filed by the spouse or defendant, you may proceed to a default judgment. So, since you know your spouse or defendant, YOU must decide if this type of service by Mail will be successful for your case.