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Florida process server bonds — 12th Circuit.
$100 flat.
The Twelfth Judicial Circuit (DeSoto, Manatee and Sarasota counties) appoints certified process servers under Fla. Stat. §48.29, and each appointee executes a $5,000 surety bond with a carrier authorized in Florida. Our premium is $100 flat.
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The Twelfth Circuit runs an application window and wants a complete packet. The bond is the piece you can close today:
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 circuit
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to go into your Twelfth Circuit packet alongside your letters of recommendation and exam result. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the process server bond guarantees
The Twelfth Judicial Circuit covers DeSoto, Manatee and Sarasota counties — Sarasota, Bradenton, Venice, Arcadia, Palmetto, North Port — and appoints certified process servers under the Certified Process Servers Act, Fla. Stat. §§48.25–48.31. The circuit’s standing administrative order on appointments is in the 2015-24.2 series.
The circuit’s packet is heavier than most. Alongside the bond, applicants supply three letters of recommendation, at least one from a member of The Florida Bar, and satisfy the circuit’s examination and background requirements. The bond itself must be executed in the amount of $5,000 with a surety company authorized to do business in the State, for the benefit of any person wrongfully injured by malfeasance, misfeasance, neglect of duty or incompetence in connection with the server’s duties.
One rule catches people out: there can be no lapse in the bond at any time during the one-year certification. A cancelled or expired bond mid-year is a compliance problem, not a paperwork nuisance — so either renew early or buy a two- or three-year term up front. We track your expiry and notify you 60 and 30 days out either way. And if you serve in a second circuit, that circuit wants its own $5,000 bond.
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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.