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Florida process server bonds — 18th Circuit.
$100 flat.
The Eighteenth Judicial Circuit — Brevard and Seminole counties — requires every process server applicant, new or renewal, to submit a $5,000 surety bond payable to the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit 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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Three steps. One sitting.
Brevard and Seminole handle the roster differently, but the bond requirement is identical. 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 Clerk of Court
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to submit with your application and the circuit’s non-refundable application fee. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the process server bond guarantees
The Eighteenth Judicial Circuit serves Brevard and Seminole counties — Titusville, Melbourne, Viera, Palm Bay, Sanford, Altamonte Springs, Oviedo — and certifies private process servers under the Certified Process Servers Act, Fla. Stat. §§48.25–48.31. Applicants are pointed to the circuit’s standing order on process servers, AO 20-34-B-Amd, alongside the statutes themselves.
Every applicant, new or renewal, submits an application to the Clerk of Court with a non-refundable application fee of $100 — a court fee, entirely separate from your bond premium — and a $5,000 surety bond payable to the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit. One quirk worth knowing: the two counties keep the records differently. In Brevard, the Clerk of Court maintains all process server information; in Seminole, the Sheriff’s Office does. Ask the right office before you chase a status.
The bond runs to the public, not to 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. Certification is annual, so the bond is annual — we track your expiry and send notices 60 and 30 days out. A second circuit means a second $5,000 bond.
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One application, issued instantly.
These are the actual issuing fields. The application collects no credit information, because this bond does not need it.
Start the application →Common questions.
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Finish the Eighteenth Circuit filing.
$100 flat, no credit section, e-signed bond usually in the same sitting. Free until issued.