Consent to Service of Process

It’s like when you intone ironically “So sue me!”

And they do. Or at least they can.

"Consent to service of process" is a legal acceptance of financial responsibility when you set up your company in whatever form in a given state. That is, when you consent to being served lawsuit papers at your address of record, it makes it all the easier for...whoever...to sue you.

They don't have to hunt you down in the woods, or wait for you to show up at your P.O. Box, or try to I.D. you in a “Where’s Waldo” drawing. All they have to do is send what’s called a process server (registered mail, basically) who identifies you, and then takes a selfie of him serving you papers, i.e. handing you an envelope stating that you are being served.

The state had to require this consent, because too many deadbeat companies absconded with unpaid bills, unserved responsibilities in contracts, and other omissions that finally force the government to say “enough!”

If you want to do business in our neck of the woods, then you’ll consent to being sued…easily.

Don’t worry though...it only hurts the first time.