Process serving offers high pay, low hours, creative challenges

Jessica True

Chris Dennison is a process server for the superior court of Arizona.
He wakes up early in the morning to make his three to four deliveries for the day.
The court tells him exactly what the person looks like, if they are tall, fat, skinny, brunette, blonde, young, or old.
He finds the address and hopes they answer their door.
When he is standing in front of the person he must ask for an ID, and then he can present them with their papers.
He then files a certificate of service at the superior court and they stamp it and keep the original copy.
With the money he makes on his morning deliveries he pays his mortgage on his house in Mesa.
In order to become a process server there is one long test at the courthouse that takes a few hours to complete, but after that there is no office time.
But things do not always go so smoothly when it comes to a job like this.
One lady even backed her car up into his truck after he served her.
“I’ve had to track people down at bars and sporting events,” Dennison said.
“I have to trick them into admitting who they are.”
“Sometimes I shout ‘Hey, Johnny’ just to see if they respond to their name,” Dennison explained.
Dennison described a painful experience delivering divorce papers, “I delivered some divorce papers to a man and then he started crying.”
“I said that I was sorry, but he was just crying and I left feeling so bad the whole day.

  • Mesa Legend Staff

    These are archived stories from Mesa Legend editions before Fall 2018. See article for corresponding author.

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