The deputies who serve court orders aren’t the regular road deputies, and many are reservists, so there are a lot of them and they don’t cost much. They can staple papers to the door of the last known address and that is legal service in Florida.
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]]>The actual court fees here in California have risen higher each year, but the bigger expense is paying the publication fees to the newspapers. When rent is averaging over $2K/month in many areas, though, the cost of service is the least of landlords’ problems. The delays caused by a shortage of process servers was a far bigger issue that led to mail-and-post as the new standard for notices of abandonment and abandoned personal property.
]]>Landlords aren’t part of the Florida elite, like citrus, sugar, cattle, and other major business sectors. Law enforcement and the courts need these fees to continue to exist because just about every other tax that was used to pay for service has been reduced. I’m sure that there is some level of ‘encouragement’ for officers to issue tickets to generate revenue.
]]>I am frankly amazed that CNN and MSNBC even allowed their reporters to enter that apartment. Each and every one of their reporters who entered that reporter is guilty of misdemeanor trespass with a penalty of up to 4 months in jail and up to $1,000 fine. Don’t they still have corporate lawyers working for them? Or did they lay them all off to save on expenses!?
]]>Needless to say, allowing the news media in to paw over the possessions before a notice of abandonment has even been posted is entirely illegal under that law.
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