3.8.3 Personal or Domiciliary Service by the Sheriff

Service on persons may be personal or domiciliary.1 Personal service is most often made at home (particularly in Article 102 divorce proceedings where the parties are still living together) or work. Domiciliary service requires service on a person of suitable age and discretion who resides in the adverse party’s house.2 Domiciliary service at a defendant’s former home, at a relative’s home, or on someone who does not live in his home will be insufficient service. 

• 1La. C.C.P. art. 1231.
• 2La. C.C.P. art. 1234.