For remarriage abroad, foreign registration of divorce, and name restoration. $250 per document, 5 business days. Serving Coconut Creek from our Fort Lauderdale office, by appointment.
In Coconut Creek — home to about 57,000 residents — the need for a divorce decree apostille usually arrives with a deadline attached: a consulate appointment, a visa window, a foreign closing date. A Florida divorce doesn't automatically count abroad. To remarry in another country, register the divorce with a foreign civil registry, restore a maiden name on a foreign passport, or resolve property matters overseas, most countries require the Florida divorce decree — apostilled.
Divorce records live with the Clerk of Court in the county where the divorce was finalized. For Broward divorces, that's the Broward County Clerk of Courts, and only a certified copy of the Final Judgment of Dissolution of Marriage — with the clerk's certification — can be apostilled. We confirm your copy qualifies, file in person at the Florida Department of State, and return the apostilled decree in 5 business days. For Coconut Creek residents, that means one handoff — at your door or at our office — and the apostilled original back in your hands on a defined timeline.
Visa and residency applications routinely require apostilled divorce decrees to document marital history.
Enforcing or registering custody terms internationally begins with the apostilled Final Judgment containing those provisions.
Foreign marriage registries require apostilled proof that a prior marriage legally ended before issuing a new marriage license.
Many countries require citizens to register a U.S. divorce at home — Italy, Spain, Colombia, and Brazil among them — starting from the apostilled decree.
Coconut Creek is home to roughly 57,000 residents. Coconut Creek's residents — a blend of retirees in Wynmoor and young international families in the Township communities — most often need apostilles for estate documents, foreign pensions, and children's documents for school enrollment abroad.
We serve clients throughout Coconut Creek's neighborhoods including Wynmoor, Township, Winston Park, Regency Lakes, and Banyan Trails, as well as nearby communities such as Margate, Pompano Beach, Coral Springs, and Deerfield Beach. Landmarks like Butterfly World, the Promenade at Coconut Creek, and the Seminole Casino put us on familiar ground — this is home-turf service, not a mail-order processor.
From Coconut Creek, our Fort Lauderdale office is about 15 minutes away — visits by appointment — and appointments are usually available same day or next day. Also serving divorce decree apostille clients in nearby Coral Springs, Pompano Beach, and Deerfield Beach.
This is the section that saves Coconut Creek clients the most time: The document that gets apostilled is a certified copy of the Final Judgment of Dissolution of Marriage, issued by the Clerk of Court of the county where the divorce was granted — complete with the clerk's certification stamp and signature. Your attorney's conformed copy, the file-stamped copy you kept, and photocopies cannot be apostilled.
For long decrees, note that certification fees are per page and foreign registries often accept a certified copy of the judgment's key pages — but some (Italy notably) want the full judgment. Also useful: Florida offers a separate short Report of Divorce from the Bureau of Vital Statistics, which some countries accept in place of the full decree. We'll help you order the version your destination actually requires. When your divorce decree is ready, bring it to our office — about 30 minutes from Coconut Creek — appointments usually available same day or next day.
Call us or submit the online request. We lock in your office appointment and confirm it inside one business hour.
Before anything is filed, we verify the seal, the notarization, and what your destination country actually requires — the step that prevents rejections.
A member of our team carries your documents to the Florida Department of State and files them at the counter. Nothing sits in a mail queue.
Five business days later your apostilled originals are ready — collect them at the office or have them delivered locally. You get a call either way.
No hourly rates, no hidden charges, no surprise add-ons. The price you see is the price you pay — including the Florida Department of State filing fee.
All prices include the Florida Department of State filing fee ($10 per document), in-person filing at the Department of State, and full document handling. Notarization available as a separate service when your documents require it.
Download the Florida Department of State Apostille and Notarial Certificate Request Form. We can fill it out for you at your appointment — no need to complete it in advance.
Because Coconut Creek is a blend of Wynmoor retirees and young international families in the Township communities, the divorce decrees we apostille here are most often bound for Canada, Italy, Colombia, and Brazil. That matters practically: each destination has its own quirks — whether a certified translation is required, whether the receiving registry wants a recently issued copy, and whether the apostille needs to be translated along with the document.
We handle those details as part of the job rather than leaving you to discover them at a consulate window. Tell us the destination country when you call and we’ll confirm exactly what your divorce decree needs before anything is filed — including whether a translation should be ordered before or after the apostille, which is the sequencing mistake that costs Coconut Creek clients the most time.
Yes — we serve every city in Broward County, Coconut Creek included. Service is by appointment at our Fort Lauderdale office at 6750 N Andrews Ave, Ste 288E; requests before 2 PM are routinely scheduled the same day, and every request gets a confirmed time within one business hour.
We're at 6750 N Andrews Ave, Ste 288E in Fort Lauderdale — about 15 minutes from Coconut Creek. Office visits are by appointment, and same-day slots are usually available.
5 business days, drop-off to return — the same in-person filing timeline countywide. Rush handling is available when your deadline is tighter; call us and we'll tell you honestly what's achievable.
Depends on the destination. Many registries accept a certified copy of the final judgment pages; Italy and some others require the full decree. Tell us the country and we'll confirm before you pay for unnecessary pages.
Sometimes — Florida's Bureau of Vital Statistics issues a Report of Divorce (a one-page vital record) that several countries accept for remarriage purposes. We can advise whether your destination is one of them.
Yes — a certified copy of a divorce judgment is a court record either party (or their representative) can order. No cooperation or signature from your ex-spouse is needed.
For non-English-speaking destinations, almost always. Divorce decrees are long, so translation is quoted by page count — we coordinate certified translation and apostille together.
From the Broward County Clerk of Courts records division — online, by mail, or in person at the courthouse in Fort Lauderdale. Ask specifically for a certified copy of the Final Judgment of Dissolution of Marriage.
