COPE, C.J.
The question to be decided is whether the Department of Children and Family Services (DCF) properly served the mother, N.L., with the dependency petition. Because DCF did not accomplish personal service of process on the mother and, alternatively, did not establish diligent search, we must reverse the dependency order, without prejudice to DCF on remand to accomplish service by a method allowed by the applicable statute.
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