Served 123 LLC arranges service in all 64 Colorado counties through local process servers, with up to three attempts at each address. Under C.R.C.P. 4(e)(1), papers may be delivered to the defendant personally, left at the usual place of abode with a family member 18 or older, or left at the usual workplace with a supervisor, managing agent or another person the rule lists. Rule 4(m) gives 63 days from filing to serve a district court defendant, and Rule 4(d) requires only that the server be 18 or older and not a party to the action. You receive a return under Rule 4(h): the server’s sworn or unsworn declaration of the date, place and manner of service.
Send the summons, complaint and any other documents online at any hour, with each Colorado address where the person or company can be found.
You get a written quote with the turnaround and cost. Work begins only after you approve it.
You receive the server’s sworn or unsworn declaration of the date, place and manner of service, as Rule 4(h)(1) calls for.
Request a free written quote. Each address starts in Colorado. Serving someone in another state? Change the first address’s State and we take you to that state’s page with your entries kept.
For district court cases. C.R.C.P. 4(m) runs nine weeks from the day the complaint is filed. Rule 6(a)(1) skips the filing day, and if day 63 is a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, the period runs to the end of the next day that is none of those.
What a Colorado case requires for service, in district court and county court.
… or at the person’s usual workplace, with the person’s supervisor, secretary, administrative assistant, bookkeeper, human resources representative or managing agent …
Rules current as of October 2026, from the official texts listed below. C.R.C.P. 3, 4, 6, 45 and 304; C.R.S. §§ 13-1-124, 13-1-125, 13-27-101 to -108, 13-33-102, 13-33-103, 13-90-115 and 13-90.5-101 to -107, 7-90-704, 30-10-515 and 24-11-101; the Colorado Judicial Branch holiday schedules for 2026 and 2027; and form JDF 98. General information, not legal advice. The official text controls.
Colorado gives a plaintiff many paths, and Served 123 brings all of the ones below into one order: hand, home or workplace delivery, a refused copy, companies, the agentless-entity mail route, minors and public bodies, substituted service, mail or publication by order, and long-arm or foreign service. A sheriff’s service and a defendant’s waiver are what remain.
Every route above, one order.
Get a Free Quote Online →Rule 4(h)(1) proves personal service by a sheriff’s or similar official’s certified statement, or by a sworn or unsworn declaration of whoever completed service, covering the date, the place and the manner. An unsworn declaration is signed under penalty of perjury in substantially the form of C.R.S. § 13-27-106. The Judicial Branch publishes form JDF 98, Affidavit of Service, built on that declaration.
Rule 4(h) calls for items 1 to 4. Items 5 to 7 are the form of an unsworn declaration that § 13-27-106 sets out; a sworn affidavit is the other option the rule allows.
For law firms, in-house legal teams, government offices and self-represented parties with a Colorado case or a Colorado defendant.
Send the summons, complaint and any other documents online at any hour, with each Colorado address where the person or company can be found.
You get a written quote with the turnaround and cost. Work begins only after you approve it.
A local server makes up to three attempts per address and logs the date, time and observations of each one.
You receive the server’s sworn or unsworn declaration of the date, place and manner of service, as Rule 4(h)(1) calls for.
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All 64 counties are covered. Search or pick one to start a quote.
Each answer cites the Colorado rule or statute it comes from. General information, not legal advice.
Rule 4(d) asks only that the server be 18 or older and not a party to the action: any such person may serve process within the United States or its territories, and county court Rule 304(c) uses the same words. The sheriff, in person or by an undersheriff or deputy, also serves the process directed to the sheriff under C.R.S. § 30-10-515, and a sheriff, marshal or similar governmental official proves service by a certified statement rather than a declaration (Rule 4(h)(1)). A subpoena may likewise be served by any person at least 18 years old who is not a party (C.R.C.P. 45(b)(2)).
Copy LinkIf a defendant is not served within 63 days (nine weeks) after the complaint is filed, the court, on motion or on its own after notice to the plaintiff, must dismiss the action without prejudice against that defendant or order that service be made within a specified time. If the plaintiff shows good cause for the failure, the court must extend the time for service for an appropriate period. Rule 4(m) does not apply to service in a foreign country under Rule 4(d).
Copy Link26 weeks after the complaint is filed. If a defendant is not served in that time, the court, on motion or on its own after notice to the plaintiff, must dismiss the action without prejudice against that defendant or order service within a specified time; a showing of good cause requires an extension for an appropriate period, and Rule 304(k) does not apply to service in a foreign country under Rule 304(d). Except when service is by publication under Rule 304(f), the complaint and a blank copy of the answer form are served with the summons (Rule 304(b)(1)). In an eviction case, Rule 304(b)(2) has the plaintiff serve the eviction summons, the complaint and the blank forms it lists at least seven days before the return date.
Copy LinkYes. Rule 3(a) says a civil action is commenced either by filing a complaint or by serving a summons and complaint. When it starts with service, the complaint must be filed within 14 days after service; if it is not, the service of summons is deemed ineffective and void without notice. A defendant may expressly waive that 14-day requirement, and it is deemed waived when the defendant files a responsive pleading or motion to the complaint without reserving the issue.
Copy LinkAt the defendant’s usual place of abode, any member of the defendant’s family who is 18 or older. At the defendant’s usual workplace, the defendant’s supervisor, secretary, administrative assistant, bookkeeper, human resources representative or managing agent; Rule Change 2012(10) added the supervisor and the human resources representative to that list. Papers may also be delivered to a person authorized by appointment or by law to receive service of process.
Copy LinkAge 13 is the dividing line. A minor at least 13 and under 18 is handed a copy, and another copy goes to the minor’s father, mother or guardian; if none of them is in the state, that copy goes to a person who has care or control of the minor, with whom the minor resides, or in whose service the minor is employed. A child under 13 is served by delivering a copy to the father, mother or guardian or, if none is in the state, to the person who has care or control of the child. A person for whom a conservator has been appointed is served through the conservator (Rule 4(e)(3)).
Copy LinkService is sufficient if the person serving knows or has reason to identify the person who refuses to be served, identifies the documents being served, offers to deliver a copy of them to that person, and thereafter leaves a copy in a conspicuous place. All four steps are part of the rule.
Copy LinkIf an entity required to maintain a registered agent has none, the agent is not located under its registered agent name at its registered agent address, or the agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the entity may be served by registered mail or by certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the entity at its principal address. Service is perfected at the earliest of the date the entity receives the process, the date on a return receipt signed on behalf of the entity, or five days after mailing. Section 7-90-704(3) says the section is not the only means of serving an entity, and under C.R.C.P. 4(e)(4)(G), if no person listed in Rule 4(e)(4) can be found in Colorado, a shareholder, member, partner or other owner, or a director, agent or principal employee found in the state may be served, or service made as otherwise provided by law.
Copy LinkThe motion is open when personal service under Rule 4(e) cannot be accomplished and mail or publication is not otherwise permitted under Rule 4(g). It is supported by an affidavit of the person who attempted service and states (1) the efforts made and why personal service could not be obtained, (2) the person the party wants to deliver the process to, and (3) the address, or last known address, of the workplace and residence of the party to be served, if known. If the court is satisfied that due diligence was used, that further attempts would be to no avail, and that delivery to that person is appropriate and reasonably calculated to give actual notice, it authorizes the delivery and orders the process mailed to the address(es) in the motion on or before the date of delivery. Service is complete on delivery, and the proof adds the mailing and the address(es) used (Rule 4(h)(6)).
Copy LinkYes. Rule 4(h)(1) accepts a sworn or unsworn declaration by the person who completed service as to date, place and manner of service. Under C.R.S. § 13-27-104(1), where a Colorado law requires or permits a sworn declaration in a court proceeding, an unsworn declaration meeting article 27 has the same effect (subsection (2) excludes a few uses, such as a deposition or an oath of office); it is a signed record given under penalty of perjury rather than under oath. Section 13-27-106 gives the form, to be followed in substance: the statement “I declare under penalty of perjury under the law of Colorado that the foregoing is true and correct,” the day, month and year and the city or other location and state or country where it was executed, then the printed name and signature. The 2020 comment to Rule 4 confirms such a declaration is sufficient to prove service, and the Judicial Branch form JDF 98, Affidavit of Service (R: April 23, 2025), prints it.
Copy LinkUnless the court orders otherwise for good cause, Rule 45(b)(1) sets three periods: a subpoena only for trial or hearing testimony is served no later than 48 hours before the appearance time it sets; one only for deposition testimony, at least 7 days before compliance is required; one commanding production of records or tangible things, at least 14 days before compliance, or as soon as possible before an expedited hearing. If the subpoena requires attendance, Rule 45(b)(3) requires payment for 1 day’s mileage allowed by law to be tendered at service or within a reasonable time after, and in any event before the appearance date; none is needed when the subpoena issues on behalf of the State of Colorado or its officers or agencies. C.R.S. § 13-33-103(1) gives witnesses the base mileage allowance that state officers and employees receive under § 24-9-104, for each mile actually and necessarily traveled from their residence to the place named in the subpoena and back. A witness in a court of record called only to give an opinion founded on special study or experience, or to make scientific or professional examinations, receives compensation fixed by the court (C.R.S. § 13-33-102(4)).
Copy LinkTo the district court for the county in which discovery is sought to be conducted in Colorado; the request is not an appearance in Colorado courts. The clerk, following that court’s procedure, promptly issues a Colorado subpoena that incorporates the terms of the foreign subpoena and contains or is accompanied by the names, addresses and telephone numbers of all counsel of record and of any party not represented by counsel. Under § 13-90.5-104 it must be served in compliance with § 13-90-115, C.R.C.P. 45 and any other applicable Colorado statutes or rules. For a deposition, Rule 45(e)(1) lets a Colorado resident be required to attend only in the county where the witness resides, is employed or transacts business in person, or at another convenient place fixed by court order; under Rule 45(e)(2), a nonresident may be required to attend only within forty miles of the place of service in Colorado, in the county where the nonresident resides, is employed or transacts business in person, or at another convenient place fixed by court order. The Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act is C.R.S. §§ 13-90.5-101 to -107.
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