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Florida process server bonds — 11th Circuit.
$100 flat.
Miami-Dade’s Eleventh Judicial Circuit requires every Certified Civil Process Server to carry a $5,000 surety bond under Fla. Stat. §48.29 — approved by the Clerk of the Courts before it goes to the Administrative Office of the Courts, and renewed every year. Our premium is $100 flat, and the price you see is the price at checkout.
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Miami-Dade is one of the busier programs in the state, and the bond is the step you control. 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.
Take it to the Clerk, then the AOC
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email. The Clerk of the Courts approves the bond first; the certification packet then goes to the Certified Civil Process Servers program at the Dade County Courthouse. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the process server bond guarantees
The Eleventh Judicial Circuit is Miami-Dade County, and it certifies and regulates Certified Civil Process Servers by standing administrative order under the Certified Process Servers Act, Fla. Stat. §§48.25–48.31. The current order in the series is AO 24-08 A1. Certified servers pass background screening, complete mandatory training, and maintain the $5,000 bond the Administrative Office of the Courts requires.
Miami-Dade adds a procedural wrinkle worth knowing before you buy: the bond is approved by the Clerk of the Courts prior to presentation to the AOC, and it is renewable on an annual basis. Practically, that means the executed bond has to exist — properly issued by a surety authorized in Florida, with a power of attorney attached — before the rest of your packet can move. The program office sits at the Dade County Courthouse, 73 West Flagler Street, Room 911.
The bond runs to the public. It answers to any person wrongfully injured by a server’s malfeasance, misfeasance, neglect of duty or incompetence in connection with the job, and if the surety pays a claim you repay the surety. It is not insurance for you, and it is not a substitute for E&O. Certification is annual, so we track your expiry and send notices 60 and 30 days out.
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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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