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Florida defendant’s prejudgment remedy bonds.
From $100.
A plaintiff got a prejudgment writ and your property is gone before anyone proved anything. Florida lets you post a counter-bond to get it back and keep operating while the case runs — under Fla. Stat. § 78.068(4) for replevin, §§ 76.18 and 76.19 for attachment, and § 77.24 for garnishment. Pricing is 2% of the bond amount, $100 minimum.
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Prejudgment remedy deadlines are measured in days, not weeks, so speed is the whole point. Here is the process:
Apply online
Your details, the plaintiff’s name, the court, the county and state where it sits, the case number, the bond amount and the effective date — plus a one-time consent to a soft credit pull.
Reviewed & issued
The credit consent authorizes a soft inquiry only, which never affects your score. Most clear the same day; larger amounts may get a short underwriter look, and collateral can come up on very large penal sums.
File it with the court
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready for the clerk or the levying officer — depending on which writ issued. Wet-ink originals mailed on request; most clerks want one.
What it is and who needs it.
What the defendant’s counter-bond actually does
Florida’s provisional remedies let a plaintiff freeze or seize property before the merits are decided, on a bond of the plaintiff’s own. The defendant’s answer is a counter-bond: post security the court accepts, and the property comes back — or the garnishment dissolves — while the case proceeds to judgment on its own timetable. It is the difference between defending a lawsuit and defending it without your inventory, your equipment or your bank account.
The route depends on the writ. Under Fla. Stat. § 78.068(4), a defendant may obtain release of property seized under a prejudgment writ of replevin by posting bond within 5 days after service of the writ, in the amount of one and one-fourth the amount due and owing on the agreement, for satisfaction of any judgment rendered against the defendant. Under § 76.18, attached property may be restored on a forthcoming bond given to the levying officer, payable to plaintiff, exceeding by one-fourth the value of the property as determined by the court or exceeding by one-fourth the amount of the claim, whichever is less, conditioned for the forthcoming of the property to abide the final order. § 76.19 offers the alternative: a bond conditioned for payment of the debt and all costs when adjudicated payable.
Garnishment has its own provision. Under Fla. Stat. § 77.24, the defendant gives a bond approved by the clerk, in at least double the amount claimed in the complaint with interest and costs — or, if the value of the property garnished is less, double that value — conditioned to pay any judgment recovered against the defendant with interest and costs. On approval, the court discharges the garnishment and releases the property, effective on filing with the bond. The bond is not insurance for you. It substitutes your surety’s credit for the seized property, and if the surety pays on the judgment, you repay the surety.
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One application, then a quick review.
These are the actual underwriting fields, including the plaintiff, the court, the case number and a one-time consent to a soft credit pull. Larger penal sums may draw a short underwriter review.
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Get your property back while you fight it.
Premiums from $100, soft pull only, e-signed bond ready for the clerk the same day. Free until issued.