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The Florida Courts E-Filing Portal: Account to Submission, Step by Step

Reviewed by the Amicably document team · Updated August 1, 2026

Florida divorce papers are filed through the Florida Courts E-Filing Portal at myflcourtaccess.com, the statewide website that delivers your documents to your county clerk. If you are representing yourself, you can open a free account, upload your signed divorce packet as PDFs, pay the filing fee by card or e-check, and receive an official file stamp the moment the portal receives your submission.

This guide covers the full sequence for an uncontested Florida divorce: what to have ready, creating the account, the document rules the portal enforces, what you pay at submission, and what happens between pressing submit and the clerk opening your case.

Do you have to use the portal?

Attorneys must e-file. If you are handling your own divorce without a lawyer, e-filing is optional: you may register with the portal and file electronically, or hand paper documents to the clerk of court, who scans them into the electronic case file.

Two things to know before you choose. First, the choice is one way: once you elect to e-file in your case, you cannot switch back to paper without the court's permission. Second, e-filing means you agree to receive service of future court documents in the case by email, so use an address you actually check.

This works the same way on every Amicably route. Whether yours is a simplified dissolution, an uncontested divorce without children, or an uncontested divorce with children, Florida's rules make the spouse the filer. Amicably prepares the complete packet and walks you through the portal step by step; you create the account and press submit.

What to have ready before you register

Create your account, step by step

1. Go to myflcourtaccess.com and select the option to register a new account.
2. Choose the Self-Represented Litigant role. The portal lists roles for attorneys, process servers, court reporters, and others. Self-Represented Litigant is the one for a person filing their own case.
3. Enter your identifying details. The rules require your real name, address, telephone number, and email, kept current for as long as the case runs. Your email address doubles as your username, and you can designate up to three email addresses for service.
4. Set your password and security question, then complete the human-verification check.
5. Activate from the confirmation email. Do this the same day: accounts left pending for more than 72 hours are deleted and you start over.
6. Log in. Registration is free, and the portal charges nothing to file documents. The court filing fee itself is separate and comes later, at submission.

Guard your login. Anything filed under your credentials counts as your personal act, which is exactly why nobody else, including a document preparation service, should ever hold them.

The document rules the portal enforces

The portal validates every upload, and format problems are one of the most common reasons a filing bounces. The main rules:

Amicably delivers your packet already in this shape: flattened, searchable, one court document per file, named so the clerk can tell what each one is.

Filing the case, screen by screen

1. Start a new case. Log in, choose the option to file a new case, and select your county.
2. Pick the case type. Dissolution of marriage sits under the family division. The portal then shows that county's list of document types.
3. Enter the parties. You and your spouse, with names exactly as they appear on your petition.
4. Upload each document against the closest matching document type. What you upload depends on your route: a simplified dissolution starts with the joint petition both spouses signed, while uncontested cases with or without children start with the petition plus their route's supporting forms. Our guide to how to file for divorce in Florida maps all three routes.
5. Protect confidential information. Florida requires each spouse's Social Security number on a separate notice, form 12.902(j), and that document is filed together with a Notice of Confidential Information within Court Filing so the number stays out of the public record. Nothing else in your packet should carry a full Social Security number or any part of a bank, credit, or debit account number.
6. Review fees, pay, and submit. The portal calculates the fees, takes payment, and shows a confirmation page. Save it.

What you pay at submission

Three numbers matter, and only one of them goes to Amicably.

The county filing fee. In the counties Amicably serves it runs $408 to $409, paid to the clerk through the portal at submission. Some counties add small administrative charges on top.

The payment convenience fee. The portal's processor adds about 3.5% of the filing fee on a card payment, or a $5 flat charge for an e-check, which usually makes the e-check the cheaper click.

Document preparation. Amicably's fee is $99 flat, paid in full, for the complete prepared packet, specialist review of every page, and the guided filing session. Court costs are never part of any preparer's fee, ours or anyone's.

If the filing fee is out of reach, the portal has a Request Fee Waiver option on its payment screen. You attach an Application for Determination of Civil Indigent Status and the clerk decides; the test is household income at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty guidelines.

One quirk worth knowing: payment settles when you submit. If a new-case submission gets held for correction, the payment is refunded automatically and you enter it again when you resubmit.

After you press submit

The stretch between clicking submit and seeing your case docketed confuses more filers than anything else, because the file stamp and the clerk's review happen at different moments.

1. Minute 0The portal stamps your filing with the official date and time, in Eastern time, the moment your submission arrives. That stamp is your filing date, not the day the clerk finishes review.
2. Same dayAutomated checks run for viruses and corrupt files, then the submission lands in your county clerk's review queue.
3. Clerk reviewThe clerk dockets the filing and you receive a processing-completed email. There is no statewide deadline for this step, so speed varies by county from hours to days.
4. If flaggedA filing can be held in the correction queue only for a short list of defects, such as several documents in one file or a wrong case style. You are notified right away and can refile a corrected, substantially identical document that keeps your original filing date.

If you do get flagged, fix it within a few days even though the current rule allows longer, and replace the flawed document inside the same submission rather than deleting it and adding a new one. Replacement keeps the original file stamp; delete-and-add takes a new, later one.

What gets held vs what sails through

A held filing is not a catastrophe; the fix window exists exactly for this. But your divorce timeline only starts once the case is filed, and Florida requires at least 20 days between filing the petition and the final judgment on every route, so a clean first submission is the fastest path to done.

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