When personal service isn't working, a Texas court can authorize service by email, text message, social media or other technology. Encore documents the attempts your motion relies on, helps show the account belongs to the defendant, and once the judge signs the order, sends the papers exactly as it directs and hands back a record built for the return.
We serve only the address, number or account the order names, by the channels it authorizes, with the citation, petition and the order itself.
Example only. Every message follows the wording and channels in the court's order.
Our servers make attempts at varied days and times, each one timestamped, GPS-stamped and photographed where permitted.
You get a sworn statement of the attempts. When the account needs proving, Encore Legal Investigations ties it to the defendant, and motion and order drafts are prepared at counsel's direction.
You file the motion and the court decides. Upload the signed order with the citation and petition.
We send exactly what the order directs, then deliver the record of service and the return.
Already have the signed order? Upload it with the citation and petition. We read what it authorizes and draft the message for your approval.
Start electronic serviceRule 106(b) motions rest on a sworn statement of where the defendant can probably be found and the specific facts of the attempts that failed.
The court has to find the method reasonably likely to give notice, so it helps to show the email, number or profile belongs to the defendant and is in use.
We serve only the identifier the order names. If something is missing, it's faster to fix the order than to defend the service.
Timestamps, message IDs, screenshots and access events, organized for the return.
Substituted service usually breaks down in the gaps between the server who knocked, the investigator who found the account and whoever sent the message. At Encore it's one Texas team working from one file, with every step documented.
Yes, when a court authorizes it. Rule 106(b)(2) lets the court order service electronically by social media, email or other technology when it finds the method reasonably effective to give notice. Without the order, the service isn't valid.
Yes. We serve only by the method, and only to the address, number or account, that the order names.
We provide the sworn statement of attempts, and Encore Legal Investigations can document the defendant's accounts. Motion and proposed order drafts are prepared at counsel's direction, for counsel's review, revision and signature. We don't file, appear or give legal advice.
Texas doesn't require proof the defendant read it, because the court has already found the method reasonably effective. The delivery, opens, clicks and screenshots we capture go in the record as corroboration.
A Texas certified process server, whose name and JBCC certification number appear in the message and on the return.
Quoted to your matter, based on the channels the order authorizes and the number of defendants. Send us the order and we'll quote it.
Send the signed order, or the attempts so far, and we'll tell you the fastest path. Questions first? Email support@encorelegalprocess.com.
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