Hudson County Sheriff's Office: serving divorce papers in Hudson County, NJ

Name: Tri State Community Services LLC
Address: 65 Walnut Street, Newark, NJ, 07102, US
Telephone: +1-973-732-7727
Price range: $399

Short answer

If your spouse won't sign the Acknowledgment of Service, the Hudson County Sheriff's Office, Process Unit, 257 Cornelison Avenue, Room 2001, Jersey City can deliver the divorce papers. You pay the sheriff's fee. Your spouse then has 35 days to respond.

Process Unit257 Cornelison Avenue, Room 2001Jersey City, NJ 07302 Phone201-795-6300Tap to call.

FeeIt depends on the ZIP code where your spouse is served. The sheriff's posted schedule (dated 2012) lists $24.96 for the first person served in Jersey City 07306. It includes up to three tries at the same address. Call to confirm.

What the sheriff usually needs

1Copies of the filed Summons and Complaint, stamped by the court.
2A letter with your spouse's address and a time they are usually there. We prepare this letter.
3The fee, paid the way the sheriff asks (often a money order).

Faster and free

If your spouse will sign, you don't need the sheriff.

They sign the Acknowledgment of Service and you file it. We prepare it with your papers.

What if my spouse won't sign? See the forms

Where you fileHudson County Family Court Address, phone and how to file.Your countyUncontested divorce in Hudson County Jersey City, Bayonne, Union City and more.

We prepare the letter to the sheriff

It comes with your divorce papers. Walk in at either Newark office.

Call (973) 643-0889 Get directions

Sources: Hudson County courthouse project; Hudson County Sheriff, Process Unit; Hudson County Sheriff, fee schedule. Checked September 2026. Offices move and numbers change: call to confirm before you go. We are not the court or the sheriff and not affiliated with them.