Can a court summons be sent to the other party by SMS?

The court will not serve subpoenas by SMS. A summons is a written notice issued by the court at the beginning of a specific procedure and lawsuit. There are several ways to serve legal summons:

1, direct service, also known as service, refers to the way that the people's court sends a special person to directly serve the litigation documents to the addressee for signature. Direct delivery is the most basic mode of delivery. In other words, everything that can be served directly should be served directly to prevent the delay of litigation and ensure the smooth progress of litigation procedures;

2, lien service, refers to the addressee unreasonably refused to serve the litigation documents, the addressee shall put the litigation documents in the addressee's residence and produce the legal effect of service;

3. Entrusted service means that when the people's court in charge of hearing civil cases has difficulty in directly serving litigation documents, it entrusts other people's courts to serve them on its behalf according to law. Entrusted service and direct service have the same legal effect.

Article 84 of the Civil Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) * * * The service of litigation documents must have a receipt, and the addressee shall record the date of receipt on the receipt and sign or seal it.

The date of receipt by the addressee on the service receipt shall be the date of service.

Article 85 Litigation documents shall be served directly on the addressee. If the addressee is a citizen, I will not give it to his adult family to sign for it; If the addressee is a legal person or other organization, it shall be signed by the legal representative of the legal person, the principal responsible person of other organizations or the responsible person of the legal person or organization; If the addressee has an agent ad litem, he may send it to his agent for signature; If the addressee appoints an agent to the people's court, it shall send it to the agent for signature.

The date of delivery is the date when the adult family members, legal persons or other organizations of the addressee are responsible for receiving and the litigation agent or agent signs for it.

Article 87 With the consent of the person to be served, the people's court may serve litigation documents by fax, e-mail or other means that can confirm receipt, except for judgments, rulings and conciliation statements.

If it is delivered by the way mentioned in the preceding paragraph, the date when it reaches the addressee's specific system by fax or e-mail shall be the date of delivery.