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Welcome to Hatfield Process Service/HPS Investigations! As Kansas City's oldest and largest legal services firm, our knowledgeable staff is trained to provide you with the true nationwide support you need to make your job easier and each engagement cost-effective and successful. Whether it's routine document service or a more difficult locate situation, HPS professionals employ a full-range of techniques, technologies and experience to quickly turn your project around to your complete satisfaction.
- Handle Local, Statewide and Nationwide Legal Service of Process
- Provide Expedited Service
- Calculate and Advance Witness Fee Checks
- Offer Courthouse, Corporate and Personal Courier Deliveries
- Help with Courthouse Filings and Document Retrievals
- Provide Nationwide Mobile Notary Service
- Set your office up to receive Automatic Email Job Status Updates
- Offer No Charge Password Online Access to Job History, Invoices and Affadavits
- Court Issue, Filing & Photocopying
- Courthouse Records Research & Retrieval (Local & Nationwide)
- Criminal and Civil Histories
- Difficult Skip Trace Locates (confirmed & verified)
- Digital Field Photography
- Driver's License History
- Email Status Updates
- Federal Criminal & Civil Histories
- Federal and State Tax Filings/Liens
- Insurance Fraud Investigations
- Jury Consultations (fast turnaround)
- Local and Nationwide Process Service
- Nationwide Document Services
- Notary Service (mobile available)
- Place of Employment Locate Investigations
- Real Estate and Property Investigations
- Rush (Expedited) Service
- Surveillance
- Trustee Foreclosures
- Witness Fee Checks Advanced
- Adoption Locates
- Affiliation Backgrounds
- Bank Account Searches (with judgment)
- Corporate Fraud
- Corporate Profiles
- Courthouse Records Research & Retrieval (Local & Nationwide)
- Credit Reports (with signed release)
- Criminal and Civil Histories
- Database Record Profiles
- Difficult Skip Trace Locates (confirmed & verified)
- Driver's License History
- Employment Screening
- Federal and State Tax Filings/Liens
- Insurance Fraud Investigations
- Jury Consultation (fast turnaround)
- Pre-deposition Interviews
- Place of Employment Locate Investigations
- Real Estate Property Investigations
- Research Work
- Surveillance (Local and Nationwide)
- Telephone Record Research
- Vehicle License Plate Research
- Worker's Compensation Investigations
HPS partners with another Kansas City based company to provide international litigation support. We have considerable experience in administering service of process worldwide. HPS does not, however, represent ourselves to be legal counsel in the area of international service of process nor do we guarantee the performance of foreign bureaucrats.
Process Server
Private Investigations
- Skip Trace/Locates
- Place of Employment Locate Investigations
- Civil and Criminal Background Investigations
Existing clients, please login with your username and password to access your job status and invoice history.
Legal Process Service
- Q. What does your service cost?
Q. How do I let the court know I want HPS to serve my papers?
Q. I don't have my service papers yet and the court tells me I need a special form private process server form before they will process my paperwork, what do I do?
Q. I don't really know where they live but I have a few addresses, can you try them all?
Q. I don't know where the Defendant lives or works, what can I do?
Q. How many attempts does your service include?
Q. Can you attempt service on a specific date/at a specific time?
Q. The sheriff already tried to serve the paper, what do you offer that is different?
Q. What if you don't get them served?
Q. What happens after my papers are served?
Q. Does HPS guarantee service?
Q. Do you serve targets on a RUSH basis?
Private Investigations Service
- Q. Can you find someone who is avoiding or hiding?
Q. What if I have limited information on the person I need found? I am not sure of their date of birth or social security number.
Q. What is the difference between an in-house skip trace and a confirmed and verified locate?
Q. I want to locate my ex girlfriend/boyfriend - can you help me with that?
Q. What if you find the person is living out of the US or is in jail?
Q. What happens if you can't find them?
Q. Is it 'guaranteed' that youI will find them.and if you don't, do I still have to pay?
Q. What types of 'tactics' does HPS take to find someone?
- Motion to Appoint Servers (Missouri)
- Motion to Appoint Servers (Kansas)
- International Services Letter of Agreement
- International Services Letter to Initiate Work
- Missouri Case.Net
- Pacer Service Center-US Courts
- Missouri Secretary of State
- Kansas Secretary of State