{"id":5123,"date":"2017-08-14T21:25:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T21:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=5123"},"modified":"2017-08-15T23:36:39","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T23:36:39","slug":"rule-4g-serving-a-minor-or-an-incompetent-person","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=5123","title":{"rendered":"Rule 4(g)\u00a0– Serving a Minor or an Incompetent Person."},"content":{"rendered":"

(g)\u00a0<\/strong>Serving a Minor or an Incompetent Person<\/strong>.<\/em> A minor or an incompetent person in a judicial district of the United States must be served by following state law<\/strong> for serving a summons or like process on such a defendant in an action brought in the courts of general jurisdiction of the state where service is made. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 A minor or an incompetent person who is not within any judicial district of the United States must be served in the manner prescribed by Rule 4(f)(2)(A), (f)(2)(B), or (f)(3) .<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Rule 4(f)(2)(A), (f)(2)(B), or (f)(3):<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

(f)\u00a0Serving an Individual in a Foreign Country.\u00a0<\/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

(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 aletter rogatory<\/strong>\u00a0or\u00a0letter of request<\/strong>; 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\u00a0ROGATORY LETTER\u00a0<\/span>aka\u00a0LETTER 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>.\u00a0\u2014 Also termed letter rogatory; rogatory letter;\u00a0<\/em>requisitory letter.<\/em>\u00a02. An instrument by which an inferior court withdraws or waives jurisdiction so that a matter can be heard in the court immediately above.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Abbr. LOR.<\/em>\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(g)\u00a0Serving a Minor or an Incompetent Person. A minor or an incompetent person in a judicial district of the United States must be served by following state law for serving a summons or like process on such a defendant in an action brought in the courts of general jurisdiction of the state where service is … Continue reading Rule 4(g)\u00a0– Serving a Minor or an Incompetent Person.<\/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-5123","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5123","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=5123"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5145,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5123\/revisions\/5145"}],"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=5123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}