{"id":5120,"date":"2017-08-14T21:24:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T21:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=5120"},"modified":"2017-08-15T23:34:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T23:34:55","slug":"rule-4f-serving-an-individual-in-a-foreign-country","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=5120","title":{"rendered":"Rule 4(f) –\u00a0Serving an Individual in a Foreign Country."},"content":{"rendered":"

(f)\u00a0Serving an Individual in a Foreign Country. <\/strong>Unless federal law provides otherwise, an individual\u2013other than a minor, an incompetent person, or a person whose waiver has been filed\u2013 may be served at a place not within any judicial district of the United States:<\/span><\/p>\n

(1) by any internationally agreed means of service that is reasonably calculated to give notice, such as those authorized by the Hague Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents;<\/span><\/p>\n

(2) if there is no internationally agreed means, or if an international agreement allows but does not specify other means, by a method that is reasonably calculated to give notice:<\/span><\/p>\n

(A) as prescribed by the foreign country\u2019s law for service in that country in an action in its courts of general jurisdiction;<\/span><\/p>\n

(B) as the foreign authority directs in response to a letter rogatory<\/strong> or letter of request<\/strong>; or<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) unless prohibited by the foreign country\u2019s law, by:<\/span><\/p>\n

(i) delivering a copy of the summons and of the complaint to the individual personally; or<\/span><\/p>\n

(ii) using any form of mail that the clerk addresses and sends to the individual and that requires a signed receipt; or<\/span><\/p>\n

(3) by other means not prohibited by international agreement, as the court orders.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Definition of ROGATORY LETTER<\/span> aka LETTER OF REQUEST<\/span>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c1. A document issued by one court to a foreign court, requesting that the foreign court 1.) take evidence from a specific person within the foreign jurisdiction or serve process on an individual or corporation within the foreign jurisdiction & 2.) return the testimony or proof of service for use in a pending case<\/strong>. \u2014 Also termed letter rogatory; rogatory letter;\u00a0<\/em>requisitory letter.<\/em> 2. An instrument by which an inferior court withdraws or waives jurisdiction so that a matter can be heard in the court immediately above.<\/strong> \u2014 Abbr. LOR.<\/em>\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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(f)\u00a0Serving an Individual in a Foreign Country. Unless federal law provides otherwise, an individual\u2013other than a minor, an incompetent person, or a person whose waiver has been filed\u2013 may be served at a place not within any judicial district of the United States: (1) by any internationally agreed means of service that is reasonably calculated … Continue reading Rule 4(f) –\u00a0Serving an Individual in a Foreign Country.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5189,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5120","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5121,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5120\/revisions\/5121"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}