Miami, Florida Process Servers

A Miami address doesn't always mean the City of Miami. Coral Gables, Doral, Hialeah and Miami Beach are separate cities, and large areas such as Kendall are unincorporated Miami-Dade County. When you look for a process server in Miami, the exact location matters less for the server, who can work anywhere in the county, than for where you file.

Miami-Dade courthouse changes

The historic Miami-Dade County Courthouse at 73 W. Flagler Street closed in 2021 after an engineering report raised safety concerns, and a new courthouse tower next to it was completed in 2025. The Clerk's office relocation page still lists new suit filings for circuit and county civil cases in Room 137 at the Flagler Street address, with probate at the Lawson E. Thomas Courthouse Center (Clerk relocation notice). Confirm the current location with the Clerk before you file in person:

Miami-Dade County Courthouse
73 W. Flagler Street
Miami, FL 33130

Lawson E. Thomas Courthouse Center (probate, 14th floor)
175 N.W. 1st Ave.
Miami, FL 33128

Certified process servers in Miami-Dade

Florida lets each judicial circuit's chief judge keep a list of certified process servers (Fla. Stat. § 48.27). Miami-Dade is the Eleventh Judicial Circuit, so a Miami process server who is certified there can serve initial process for that circuit's cases. Special process servers appointed by the sheriff are another option, and the sheriff also serves papers. Service on a Sunday is generally void (s. 48.20).

Florida gives 120 days from filing the first pleading to serve it (Fla. R. Civ. P. 1.070(j)). See service of process deadlines and the Florida process serving laws.

Companies with Miami offices

A Miami headquarters doesn't put the company's registered agent in Miami. The national agents keep their Florida offices elsewhere: CT Corporation in Plantation, CSC, Cogency Global and InCorp in Tallahassee, and Northwest Registered Agent in St. Petersburg. Look up the agent on Sunbiz before you send a server, and read what an agent for service of process is.

An individual can often be found at work. A server can serve an employee there, but a lawsuit against the employer itself generally goes to its registered agent. The county's public hospital is one of the city's largest workplaces:

Jackson Memorial Hospital
1611 N.W. 12th Ave.
Miami, FL 33136

Serving papers on the City of Miami

Under Fla. Stat. § 48.111, a public agency is served through its registered agent first, and then in order through its head, vice head and other listed officials. Working down that list takes legwork, and a Miami process server can handle the attempts and return a proof of service that names the official who was served. The City Clerk's office is at City Hall:

City of Miami City Clerk
Miami City Hall
3500 Pan American Drive
Miami, FL 33133

Miami process servers across the county

Servers listed here generally cover all of Miami-Dade; compare them with the Miami-Dade County process servers page and with servers in Miami Beach and North Miami Beach. For pricing, see how much it costs to hire a process server.

This is a general summary, not legal advice.