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Florida process server bonds — 15th Circuit.
$100 flat.
Palm Beach County’s Fifteenth Judicial Circuit runs one of the most structured certified process server programs in Florida, and every applicant must execute a $5,000 surety bond — recorded with the Clerk & Comptroller’s Recording Department — under Fla. Stat. §§48.25–48.31. Our premium is $100 flat, and the price you see is the price at checkout.
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Palm Beach wants a course, an exam, a background check and a recorded bond. Only one of those finishes today:
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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.
Record it with the Clerk & Comptroller
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to take to the Clerk & Comptroller’s Recording Department and then attach to your electronic application. Wet-ink original mailed on request — recording offices often want one.
What it is and who needs it.
What the process server bond guarantees
The Fifteenth Judicial Circuit is Palm Beach County — West Palm Beach, Boca Raton, Delray Beach, Jupiter, Wellington — and it certifies private process servers under Chapter 48, Florida Statutes, in particular §§48.25–48.31, the Florida Certified Process Servers Act. The circuit’s program is governed by an administrative order in the 2.701 series.
Palm Beach asks for more than most circuits. An applicant must be at least 18, a Florida resident with no mental or legal disability, pass a background screening, obtain a certificate of good conduct, complete a 16-hour course through the Florida Association of Professional Process Servers and pass the written examination, pay the FDLE background check fee directly to FDLE, execute a $5,000 surety bond recorded with the Clerk & Comptroller’s Office — Recording Department, and attend the annual January swearing-in. Renewals run through October each year and carry a shorter continuing-education requirement.
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 in connection with the job, and if the surety pays a claim you repay the surety. Because certification is annual, so is the bond — we track your expiry and send notices 60 and 30 days out so the October renewal window never catches you short.
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$100 flat, no credit section, e-signed bond usually in the same sitting. Free until issued.