Serving via Sheriff

North Carolina Divorce Law Divorce and Separation Answers
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If you serve via sheriff the sheriff will notify the court that the defendant has been served. You will need to call the sheriff’s department to follow up on service.

Once she has been served with a copy of the complaint, it is sufficient to send any future filings via regular mail.

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Another question…

The STBX is not going to give me a home address so I will have to have the STBX served at work, and if I try to serve via mail the STBX will probably not sign for the mail or refuse to return the return-receipt, just for the sake of making things difficult for me. So, since my STBX is not going to cooperate at all, I am thinking that it may be more thorough and efficient if I just have the STBX served at work via Sheriff.

If I serve via Sheriff I will not have to file an Affidavit of Service, correct? Will the Sheriff notify the Court that the STBX has been served or do I have to do that myself? Will I be notified when the papers are served or do I have to call and ask? Do I take the actual papers to the Sheriff’s office and drop them off?

Also, a later step in the process is:
“Serve a copy of the Notice of hearing and calendar request on your spouse”

I thought the Court would be sending this… is this yet another set of papers that I am going to have to have the Sheriff deliver? Do I have to file an affidavit that I sent this as well? Sheez!