Title 13 — Procedure Generally. [Enacted title]

Except as otherwise specifically provided by law or rules of court, this chapter applies to the District of Columbia courts.

Subject to the provisions of law or rules of court for service by other persons, the United States marshal for the District of Columbia or his deputy shall serve the process of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, and the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.

(a) The Metropolitan Police Department shall execute, upon request, a bench warrant in any case in which paternity establishment or child support is at issue. (b) The Metropolitan Police Department shall serve civil process in any case in which paternity establishment or child su…

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This chapter does not limit or affect the right to serve process in any other manner now or hereafter required or permitted by: (1) other law, including Chapter 4 of this title or, any other provisions of this Code; or (2) rule of court.

(a) When an infant is a party defendant in an action, the summons and complaint shall be served upon him personally and, when he is under 16 years of age, upon the person with whom he resides, if within the District. The infant shall be produced in court unless, for cause shown, …

When a person non compos mentis is a party defendant in an action, process shall be served upon him personally, if within the District, and upon his committee, if there is one within the District.

(a) In an action against a foreign corporation doing business in the District, process may be served on the agent of the corporation or person conducting its business, or, when he is absent and can not be found, by leaving a copy at the principal place of business in the District…

In an action specified by section 13-336 , when process can not be served upon a domestic or foreign corporation, the corporation may be proceeded against as a nonresident defendant, by notice by publication.

(a) In actions specified by subsection (b) of this section, publication may be substituted for personal service of process upon a defendant who can not be found and who is shown by affidavit to be a nonresident, or to have been absent from the District for at least six months, or…

(a) In actions specified by section 13-336, personal service of process may be made on a nonresident defendant out of the District, and the service has the same effect, and no other, as an order of publication duly executed. (b) The service may be made by any person not a party t…

An order for the substitution of publication for personal service may not be made until: (1) a summons for the defendant has been issued and returned “Not to be found,” and (2) the nonresidence of the defendant or his absence for at least six months is proved by affidavit to the …

An order of publication shall be in the following or an equivalent form: United States District Court for the District of Columbia. AB, plaintiff, versus In ____. No. ____ CD, defendant. The object of this action is to (state it briefly). On motion of the plaintiff, it is this __…

(a) An order of publication shall be published at least once a week for three successive weeks, or oftener, or for such further time as the court orders. In actions for divorce in which service by publication is authorized under this chapter, and satisfactory evidence is presente…

(a) When a person would be a proper party to a judicial proceeding if living, and upon allegation under oath and proof satisfactory to the court that it is unknown whether he is living or dead, he may be proceeded against as if he were living, and with like effect, if a represent…