Foreign estates, repatriation, insurance claims, pension matters — handled quickly and with the care these situations deserve. $190 per certificate, 5 business days. Serving Greenacres with mobile pickup and our nearby West Palm Beach office.
For the 91,000 people who call Greenacres home, getting a death certificate accepted abroad comes down to one certification: the Florida apostille. Whenever a Florida death has consequences overseas — an estate to close, property to retitle, a pension to collect, remains to bring home — foreign authorities freeze everything until they see an apostilled death certificate.
These requests arrive at difficult moments, and we treat them that way: straight answers, zero runaround, and a firm 5-day timeline. Death certificates in Florida come from the Bureau of Vital Statistics via local health department vital records offices; we confirm your certified copy qualifies, file it personally at the Florida Department of State, and return the apostilled certificate without delay. For Greenacres residents, that means one handoff — at your door or at our office — and the apostilled original back in your hands on a defined timeline.
Before succession proceedings open or inherited assets are released, foreign courts and notaries require the apostilled death certificate.
Selling or transferring real estate the deceased held abroad begins with the apostilled certificate.
Repatriating remains to the home country requires apostilled death documentation in the consular file.
A foreign life insurer won't pay out until it receives the apostilled death certificate.
To stop payments and start survivor benefits, foreign pension systems require apostilled proof of death.
When a citizen dies abroad, many countries require the death registered at home — and the apostilled U.S. certificate is the document that opens that file.
Greenacres is home to roughly 44,000 residents. Greenacres' large Cuban, Colombian, and Guatemalan communities keep documents moving between Palm Beach County and Latin America — birth certificates, powers of attorney, and FBI background checks for immigration cases and property matters abroad.
We serve clients throughout Greenacres' neighborhoods including the Original Section, River Bridge, Olive Tree, Nautica Isles, and Pine Ridge, as well as nearby communities such as Palm Springs, Lake Worth Beach, and Wellington. Landmarks like Greenacres Community Park, Okeeheelee Park's southern edge, and the Lake Worth Road commercial corridor put us on familiar ground — this is home-turf service, not a mail-order processor.
From Greenacres, our West Palm Beach office is about 15 minutes away — or skip the drive entirely and book mobile pickup; we come to your home or office. We also handle death certificate apostilles for clients in nearby Boca Raton, Lake Worth Beach, Royal Palm Beach, and Palm Springs.
Florida death certificates come in two forms: a public version omitting cause of death, and a restricted version that includes it (family members and legal representatives only). Either can be apostilled — the question is which one your foreign recipient wants. Estate and property filings generally take the standard version, while insurance claims usually insist on cause of death. Check before you order, or describe your situation and we'll steer you right.
The copy must be a certified copy issued by the Florida Bureau of Vital Statistics or a county health department vital records office — in Palm Beach, the Florida Department of Health in Palm Beach County. Funeral home paperwork and photocopies cannot be apostilled. When your death certificate is ready, bring it to our office — about 15 minutes from Greenacres — or book mobile pickup and we'll come to you.
Walk in to our West Palm Beach office or schedule mobile pickup anywhere in Palm Beach County — confirmed within one business hour.
Before anything is filed, we vet the document itself — the certification, the notarization, and what your destination country expects — so rejections don't happen.
We hand-carry your paperwork to the Florida Department of State counter ourselves. No mail-in pile, no batch processing, nothing left to chance.
Your apostilled originals come back in 5 business days, ready for office pickup or local return delivery — and you get a call the minute they arrive.
One flat number, nothing bolted on afterward. What we quote is what you pay, and the Florida Department of State's filing fee is already inside it.
Every price covers the $10-per-document Florida Department of State filing fee, in-person submission at the state counter, and complete document handling. If your paperwork needs notarization first, we offer that as a separate add-on service.
Grab the Apostille and Notarial Certificate Request Form from the Florida Department of State here. There's no need to fill it out ahead of time — we'll complete it with you at pickup.
Yes — mobile pickup covers all of Greenacres and every Palm Beach County city. Requests before 2 PM are routinely scheduled same-day, and every request gets a confirmed window within one business hour.
We're at 500 S Australian Ave, Suite 600 in West Palm Beach — about 15 minutes from Greenacres. Walk-ins are welcome seven days a week, or book mobile pickup and skip the trip.
Pickup to return runs 5 business days anywhere in the county — the identical in-person filing schedule for every city we serve. Facing a tighter deadline? Call and we'll give you a straight answer about what rush handling can realistically deliver.
Anyone may order the version without cause of death — it's a public record. The cause-of-death version stays restricted to the spouse, parents, children, siblings, grandchildren, or a legal representative for 50 years following the death.
Standard certificates satisfy most foreign probate and property matters; foreign life insurers usually demand the cause-of-death version. When the receiving institution hasn't said which, we'll help you figure it out so you don't order twice.
Yes, and it happens often. A relative, attorney, or funeral director in the area can deliver the certificate to us, or we can arrange mobile pickup. Once apostilled, the certificate can be shipped anywhere internationally.
In most cases yes — non-English-speaking destinations generally want certified translations of the certificate and the apostille both. We fold certified translation into the same order.
Yes, so long as you obtain a certified copy issued today by the Bureau of Vital Statistics. It's the registrar's current signature that the Department of State verifies.
Local office for certified Palm Beach death certificates.
Florida Bureau of Vital StatisticsStatewide death record ordering.
Florida Department of StateThe office that issues the apostille itself.
One flat rate, volume bundles, and the few things that add cost.
Processing timeThe 5-day timeline vs the mail-in queue.
Same-day & rush serviceA straight answer on what a tight deadline allows.
Mobile pickupWe come to you, anywhere in Palm Beach County.
Same-day pickup available across Greenacres — call and we'll confirm your window within one business hour.
