You've Been Served.....Still Loving Facebook??

Just read an interesting article where an Australian judge allowed service on a party through the internet on the person's facebook account. Challengable surely, but how far can the United States courts be from this type of substitute service....of course unless you get one of our Suffolk county judges who don't believe at all in substitute service.

The Aussie Lawyer had this to say: "In civil courts, there has always been the facility to apply for substituted service in cases where a defendant may be difficult to find or evidence suggests they are deliberately evading documents being served on them."

Courts usually leave legal documents at a defendant's last known address or somewhere they know family members are.

Mr Moore said the Facebook option was a novel way of serving documents and probably an effective option of bringing court action to someone's attention

Australian courts have given permission in the past for people to be served via email and text messages when it was not possible to serve them in person.
Just something else to think about as you diary your entire life for the world to see and critique on the internet............