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Terms Used In Florida Statutes 721.8561

  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Trustee: means an attorney who is a member in good standing of The Florida Bar and who has been practicing law for at least 5 years or that attorney's law firm, or a title insurer authorized to transact business in this state under…. See Florida Statutes 721.82
An administrative fee of $50 per trustee deed for each deed recorded pursuant to the trustee foreclosure procedures set forth in ss. 721.855 and 721.856 shall be paid and remitted at the same time and in the same manner as documentary stamp taxes imposed pursuant to s. 201.02. Revenues from such fees shall be remitted to the Department of Revenue in the same manner as documentary stamp taxes and deposited in the State Courts Revenue Trust Fund.