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Florida process server bonds — 9th Circuit.
$100 flat.
To be certified as a private process server in Florida’s 9th Judicial Circuit — Orange and Osceola counties — you must execute a $5,000 surety bond, renewable annually, under Fla. Stat. §48.29. Our premium is $100 flat, and the price you see is the price at checkout. The application collects no credit information.
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Three steps. One sitting.
The bond is the easy part of a Ninth Circuit certification packet. Here is the entire process:
Apply online
Your details, the term you want, and an effective date. That is the application — 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 Court Administration
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to go into your Ninth Circuit certification packet alongside your FDLE background check and exam result. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the process server bond guarantees
Florida’s Certified Process Servers Act (Fla. Stat. §§48.25–48.31) lets the chief judge of each judicial circuit keep an approved list of natural persons designated to serve process. The Ninth Judicial Circuit covers Orange and Osceola counties — Orlando, Kissimmee, Apopka, Winter Park, St. Cloud — and runs its certified process server program through Court Administration in Orlando.
The circuit’s packet is more than the bond: applicants pass a Florida Department of Law Enforcement background check, sit a certification examination and score 80% or better (the class and the exam are administered by third parties, not by the court), and pay an application fee to the State of Florida — $300 for a new applicant, $250 on renewal. Court Administration schedules the appointment; the bond is the piece you can finish today.
The bond runs for the benefit of any person wrongfully injured by the server’s malfeasance, misfeasance, neglect of duty or incompetence in connection with the job. It is not insurance for you — if a harmed party recovers on the bond, you reimburse the surety. Certification is annual, so the bond is annual; we track it and send renewal notices 60 and 30 days out. Serve in a second circuit and that circuit wants its own $5,000 bond.
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$100 flat, no credit section, e-signed bond usually in the same sitting. Free until issued.