Local process serving agents with decades of experience, ensuring your divorce application is served with the least possible fuss. Professional agents who can not only complete your service, but have the additional knowledge and skill to ensure that all details of your service comply with the requirements and expectations of the courts.
With filing of your divorce application easily available via the Commonwealth Courts Portal, forwarding your matter for service couldn’t be easier. The Commonwealth Courts Portal will provide you with sealed PDF copies of all documents which need to be served. Simply download the filed documents and email [info@avidinvestigations.com.au] them to our office along with your instructions to serve.
If you’re not sure how to write an instruction to serve the documents, just follow our Step-by-Step guide, with an instruction letter example to copy and paste for your own matter.
When forwarding your documents for service, remember that at a minimum there should be four documents. There should be Application for Divorce, Affidavit for eFiling, Marriage Certificate and Brochure – Marriage, Families and Separation. If you became an Australian citizen, you’ll also usually file and serve your Citizenship certificate. There are other documents which also need to be served in special cases, for example if your Marriage Certificate was originally in a language other than English. The simplest way to be sure you’re serving the required documents is…. if you filed it, you should serve it.
There’s no need to forward the draft Affidavit or Service of Acknowledgment of Service, we will produce those once your matter has been received. As attempts to serve the documents happen, we will email you reports to advise what is happening.
No need to pay until your matter has been finalised. We will email you an invoice at the conclusion with bank details to make an electronic transfer via internet banking or similar method.
Prices to serve the divorce applications vary, based on the location of the person to be served. We can confirm the price to serve in writing, prior to you instructing the service. Simply email our office with subject “Quote” and tell us in the email the matter is a divorce application service and the location where the person needs to be serve. We will usually answer your request for a quote on the same day. If your matter is more urgent, please feel free to telephone our office and we can quickly give you a verbal quote.
Remember time limits for service apply once your application for divorce has been filed. The Court expects the respondent in the matter to be serves at least 28 days before the date of the Court hearing for your matter. While there are exceptions to the 28 days service window, it is best to instruct your service as soon as you have filed your documents in case there are issues with completing service.
For more information, please review our page Helpful information about Serving your Divorce. Moving through a divorce application can often be an emotional exercise. Our professional agents and service will guide you through the service process to make the process and seamless and easy as it can possibly be.
