Florida questions

Florida's court-ordered options usually cover a record that was never adjudicated guilty or, for a juvenile, delinquent. Your history matters too. The record can't be a conviction for an offense on Florida's ineligible list, even with adjudication withheld, and you need no Florida adjudication of guilt for any crime (or, as a juvenile, of delinquency for a felony or certain misdemeanors, unless that record was expunged). You must be done with court supervision in this case, and no court may have sealed or expunged a record of yours before, unless it is that same record, sealed for 10 years, that you now want expunged. The check also asks about an open case and money owed. The check walks you through the same questions the application asks. It takes a few minutes.

Generally no, not by court order; automatic sealing has no such limit. FDLE's rule: one arrest record, in one proceeding — though the court may include other arrests that directly relate to it. Florida law also generally allows one court-ordered sealing or expunction in a lifetime — an earlier sealing counts the same as an earlier expunction. A record sealed for 10 years may later be expunged, if it is otherwise eligible — that is the one common second step.

It costs $199 plus Florida's fees. The $199 is Expeal's one flat fee for preparing your documents. You also pay the government fees Florida and your county charge, though FDLE's executive director may waive FDLE's processing fee. The pricing page shows each statewide figure and its source; your county's own filing fee and its source are on your county's guide.

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FDLE charges a processing fee for the certificate of eligibility, unless its executive director waives it. Your county clerk charges a service charge set by statute when you file. Neither fee is Expeal's. Both apply whether or not you use Expeal.

FDLE says processing usually takes 10 weeks. The clock starts when your completed application packet arrives. The court's own calendar adds time after you file the petition.

No. FDLE handles applications in the order they arrive, and it will not speed one up. A complete, correct packet is the one thing that avoids added weeks.

We prepare the documents. In the application's own words: we'll create all the necessary documents and send them to you, and you'll handle the filing yourself. We do not give legal advice. We do not represent you in court.

With the clerk of court in the county where your case was handled. Our county list has every Florida clerk's address, phone, and filing fee.

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Not your answers themselves. The check and the questions on our Florida page run in your browser and keep your answers after the # in the page address, which your browser never sends to us. The pages you open do reach our web host, like any page address: the state you choose is the page itself, and so is a county's guide you open. The host's routine logs record them for about 30 days. With scripts off, the county you type goes into the page address itself and reaches the host the same way. We keep your answers nowhere else.

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No. The check on this site needs no account and stores nothing. You only need an account in the application, where your documents are prepared.

The application uses passwordless sign-in. You enter your email address and receive a one-time code. There is no password to create or remember.