Process serving · Essex County
Process server for Essex County, New Jersey
From $150 per address. Attempts logged, affidavit of service included.
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Send the requestMCC Solutions serves summonses, complaints, subpoenas and notices across Essex County, from Newark to Millburn, with each attempt logged and a signed affidavit when service is made.
Filing proof of service
Essex County Hall of Records
465 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, Newark, NJ 07102
Add "file it with the court for me too" and we take the affidavit to the Civil Division. Court filing in Essex County
Essex County Sheriff's Office
50 W. Market St, Newark, NJ 07102
973-621-4066
The sheriff handles court-ordered levies and writs. Most summonses and subpoenas can be served privately. Sheriff's page
Serving across Essex County
Essex County is in North Jersey. We serve at homes and workplaces in Newark, East Orange, Irvington, Bloomfield, Montclair, West Orange, Livingston, Belleville, Nutley, Maplewood. Give us more than one address and the times the person is usually there, and say if you need it done today.
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Before you send
- Send the papers to serve as a PDF, with every page in order.
- Give the best address, a description or photo of the person, and the times they're usually home.
- Up to three attempts at different times of day are included.
- You get a notarized affidavit of service once service is made.
- Rules on who may serve papers vary by state. The desk confirms them for your state before assigning a server.
Prefer to talk?
Call the desk and we'll take the request by phone.
Questions
Who can serve papers in Essex County?
In the Law Division, a summons and complaint can be served by the sheriff or by any competent adult who has no interest in the case, which is how private process servers work. In the Special Civil Part, the court usually serves by mail or through its own court officers. When a court order directs the sheriff to act, the Essex County Sheriff's Office handles it at 50 W. Market St, Newark, NJ 07102.
Where is proof of service filed for a Essex County case?
With the Superior Court Civil Division at the Essex County Hall of Records in Newark. Our serve and file option takes it there for you.
Which Essex County towns do you cover?
All of them, including Newark, East Orange, Irvington, Bloomfield, Montclair, West Orange. Give us the best address and times to find the person.
Do you give legal advice?
No. We deliver the papers you give us and document it. Ask a lawyer about what to serve or how.
Essex County court offices
Which Essex County court issued your papers?
Papers served in Essex County usually come out of one of the Superior Court offices below. Knowing which office issued them tells you where the affidavit of service is headed afterward.
- Vicinage
- Essex (Vicinage 5)
- Trial Court Administrator
- Essex County Veterans Courthouse, 50 West Market Street, Floor 5, Newark, NJ 07102
Main court line 973-776-9300 - Family Division: Dissolution Unit
- Essex County Wynona Lipman Family Courthouse, Family Division Dissolution Unit
350 University Avenue, Room 650, Newark, NJ 07102
973-776-9300 ext. 57040 - Family Division: Non-Dissolution Unit
- Essex County Wynona Lipman Family Courthouse, Family Division Non-Dissolution Unit
350 University Avenue, Room 340, Newark, NJ 07102
973-776-9300 ext. 57045 - Special Civil Part
- Essex County Hall of Records, Civil Customer Service
465 Dr. M. L. King, Jr. Boulevard, Room 201, Newark, NJ 07102
973-776-9300 ext. 56800
For small claims and most Special Civil Part cases here, service is done by the court, by mail or through a court officer, not a private server.
The 22 municipalities of Essex County
The State's 2025 tax rate table lists 22 municipalities in the county. A serve address in any of them is a county address:
- Belleville Township
- Bloomfield Township
- Caldwell Borough
- Cedar Grove Township
- City of Orange Township
- East Orange City
- Essex Fells Township
- Fairfield Township
- Glen Ridge Township
- Irvington Township
- Livingston Township
- Maplewood Township
- Millburn Township
- Montclair Township
- Newark City
- North Caldwell Township
- Nutley Township
- Roseland Borough
- South Orange Village Township
- Verona Township
- West Caldwell Township
- West Orange Township
Sources for the county figures: Essex vicinage administration (NJ Courts directory); Essex County Family Division (NJ Courts directory); Essex County Special Civil Part (CN 10150); NJ Courts, who can serve a complaint; Essex County municipalities (2025 General Tax Rates). Read in November 2026; Essex County offices do move, so confirm by phone first.