Fees for postage by weight.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nSecretary of State \/ Long Arm- $<\/strong>15.10 per defendant or $10 per business made payable to Kentucky State Treasurer (under certain circumstances, defendants who are not residents of Kentucky may be served through the KY Secretary of State).<\/p>\nReturn Attorney Plaintiff –<\/strong>\u00a0the plaintiff may direct that the summons be returned to them (or their attorney) to handle service of process.<\/p>\n***Reminder \u2013 Our office is prohibited from providing legal advice. You may contact the Northern Kentucky Bar Association (Lawyer Referral Service) @ (859<\/span>)\u00a0<\/span>781-1525 or for Civil Cases Legal Aid of the Bluegrass (Civil Legal Assistance) @ (859) 431-8200, or for Criminal Cases the Public Defender's Office 1-833-385-6054 or contact a private attorney.\u00a0 There is also a FREE Legal Help Center on the 2nd floor of the Justice Center on Wednesdays from 11 am until 2 pm.<\/span><\/p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When a complaint or other initiating document is filed, a summons is required to be prepared for issuance by the Clerk. Summons may be served by: Personal Service Certified Mail Secretary of State \/ Long Arm RAP – Return Attorney Plaintiff Personal Service (Sheriff) If serving in Kenton County there is a $60.00 charge per […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentoncourtclerk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentoncourtclerk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentoncourtclerk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentoncourtclerk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentoncourtclerk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/kentoncourtclerk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2082,"href":"https:\/\/kentoncourtclerk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions\/2082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentoncourtclerk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentoncourtclerk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentoncourtclerk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}