Florida Court Surplus & Excess Proceeds Feed
Daily aggregated court registry feed covering Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Orange, and Hillsborough counties. Standardized lead dockets for both administrative tax deed surplus (Fla. Stat. § 197.582) and judicial foreclosure excess proceeds (Fla. Stat. § 45.032).
Statutory Authority: Fla. Stat. § 197.582
Under Florida law, when real property is sold at a tax deed auction for an amount exceeding the statutory opening bid (statutory taxes, interest, and clerk costs), the excess funds constitute surplus proceeds.
The Clerk of the Circuit Court holds these funds in the court registry and issues a Notice of Surplus to all persons who held an interest in the property as recorded in the official public records.
Claimant Priority & Statutory Timelines
Florida law establishes a strict priority scheme for distributing tax deed surplus proceeds:
- Government Liens: Municipal liens and special assessments of record.
- Senior Lienholders: First mortgage holders, recorded judgments according to recording priority.
- Junior Lienholders: Second mortgages, HOA/COA liens, subordinate judgment creditors.
- Titleholder of Record: The former owner(s) or their legal heirs as of the date the tax deed was executed.
What is a Single Surplus Claim Worth?
Monitored Florida Jurisdictions
Florida Practitioner FAQ
Key questions regarding South Florida coverage, statutory rules, record fields, and CRM ingestion.
Which Florida judicial circuits and counties are covered, and can custom jurisdictions be added?
Surplus Docket actively monitors Florida's major metropolitan circuits, including Miami-Dade (11th Circuit), Broward (17th Circuit), Palm Beach (15th Circuit), Orange (9th Circuit), and Hillsborough (13th Circuit) at no additional charge—included standard in the Tri-State Core Feed ($249/mo). If your firm needs custom county filtering, dedicated circuit tracking, or custom delivery routing, we configure these at zero setup or onboarding cost.
Does the Florida feed include court registry foreclosure surplus in addition to tax deed surplus?
The Florida feed indexes both administrative Tax Deed Surplus (Fla. Stat. § 197.582) and Circuit Court Judicial Mortgage Foreclosure Surplus (Fla. Stat. § 45.032). Each docket explicitly states the proceeding type, governing statute, and exact statutory claim deadline window (60 calendar days from the Certificate of Disbursements for judicial foreclosures under § 45.032 versus 120 days from the clerk's statutory notice for tax deeds under § 197.582).
What specific fields and record schema are included with each docket record?
Every docket record delivers a comprehensive schema engineered for asset recovery practitioners: Former Owner / Titleholder of Record (Owner_Name), Entity Type (Entity_Type: Individual, Estate / Deceased, or Institutional), Probate / Heir Search Indicator (Heir_Search_Recommended), Uniform Case or Tax Deed Number (Case_or_TaxDeed_No), County-Standardized Parcel ID / Folio (Parcel_ID), Property Address (Property_Address), Property Type (Property_Type), Verified Surplus Balance (Surplus_Balance_USD), Statutory Fee Rate & Estimated Legal Recovery (Statutory_Fee_Rate at Florida's 20% cap, Est_Finder_Fee_USD), Sale Date (Sale_Date), Days Remaining to File (Days_Remaining_To_Claim), Statutory Claim Window (Statutory_Deadline_Window), Governing Statute (Governing_Statute), and a direct link to the originating official Court Clerk Verification Portal (Clerk_Verification_URL).
How frequently are dockets updated, and does the feed include older unclaimed balances or only new sales?
Our ingestion pipeline processes public court and clerk records daily and delivers fresh dockets every court business morning (Monday through Friday) by 7:00 AM EST. The feed delivers both newly published auction surplus disbursements and active, unencumbered rolling registry balances within their statutory claim periods. Registry accounts that have lapsed past their statutory deadline or have been extinguished by prior lienholder claims are systematically audited and purged daily.
Can our firm inspect a sample docket export before subscribing?
Yes. Prospective subscribers can test our interactive Live Docket Preview on the home page to search, filter, and export sample Florida records in real time. You can also download our Sample Data Export (.csv) to evaluate the schema, column structure, and clerk verification URLs before initiating your evaluation.
What subscription options are available, and can records be imported into firm case management systems (Clio, Filevine, MyCase)?
Annual subscriptions include 2 months free (~17% discount): $2,490/year for the Tri-State Core Feed (FL, TX, GA) or $4,490/year for the Six-State + REST API Suite, backed by a 14-day money-back satisfaction guarantee. For law practice management, every daily dispatch automatically generates pre-mapped, 1-click import CSVs configured specifically for Clio Manage (Clio_Matter_Import.csv) and Filevine (Filevine_Lead_Import.csv), alongside clean UTF-8 CSV, formatted Excel (.xlsx), and JSON files compatible with MyCase, Smokeball, or custom SQL databases.
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Receive standardized daily CSV, Excel, and JSON public record dockets indexing newly published surplus balances across Orange, Hillsborough, Palm Beach, Miami-Dade, and Broward counties. Delivered every business morning (Mon–Fri) at 7:00 AM EST.
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