A Practice Note explaining how to file and serve a summons, complaint, and other case-initiating documents for a civil suit in the New Jersey Superior Court, Law Division, Civil Part and in a non-foreclosure action in the New Jersey Superior Court, Chancery Division, General Equity Part. This Note describes how counsel properly file an action electronically or in paper format. It also sets out the steps counsel must take when serving process on an individual or corporate defendant located within or outside New Jersey and explains how to prepare and file a proof of service.