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Florida process server bonds — 10th Circuit.
$100 flat.
The Tenth Judicial Circuit — Hardee, Highlands and Polk counties — designates certified process servers under Fla. Stat. §§48.25–48.31, and every designee must execute and file a $5,000 surety bond with the Office of the Court Administrator. Our premium is $100 flat, and the price you see is the price at checkout.
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The Tenth Circuit wants the executed bond on file before your name goes on the approved list. Here is the whole process:
Apply online
Your details, the term you want, and an effective date. No financials, no credit section, no follow-up scavenger hunt.
Pay & e-sign
Court certification bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase.
File with the Court Administrator
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to file with the Office of the Court Administrator so the AOC and the Clerks can add you to the approved list. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the process server bond guarantees
Individuals designated as certified process servers in the Tenth Judicial Circuit, in and for Hardee, Highlands and Polk counties, hold all the powers and duties conferred by Fla. Stat. §§48.25–48.31 — they may serve process anywhere in the circuit without a separate court appointment in each case.
The circuit’s standing order on the program, Administrative Order No. 1-29.6, requires each designee to execute and file with the Office of the Court Administrator a bond in the amount of $5,000 with a surety company authorized to do business in this state. The Administrative Office of the Courts and the Clerks of the Court maintain the current approved list, and that list is amended to add — or delete — names as bonds and good standing change.
The bond protects the public, not you. It answers to any person wrongfully injured by a server’s malfeasance, misfeasance, neglect of duty or incompetence; if the surety pays, you repay the surety. Because designation is annual, the bond is annual. We track your expiry and send notices 60 and 30 days out so your name never drops off the list over a lapsed filing.
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These are the actual issuing fields. The application collects no credit information, because this bond does not need it.
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$100 flat, no credit section, e-signed bond usually in the same sitting. Free until issued.