Saienni v. Oveide’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “The law in this State has developed in somewhat rigid conformity to the principle that provisions for substituted service, being in derogation of the common law, must be strictly construed. Hence, the rule has been consistently applied that one's "dwelling house or usual place of abode" is limited in its meaning to the place where one is "actually living" at the time when service is made.... The expectation that a defendant will normally receive notice of process served through a competent member of his household living at the same place of abode as he, does not, it seems to me, prevail in the setting of familial disorganization frequently ensuing where the head of the household is committed to prison.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 795 So. 2d 952 - Shurman v. Atlantic Mortg. & Inv. Corp.