Florida Statutes
Fla. Stat. § 454.20 (2025)
Attorneys not to be sureties.
✓ 2025 Florida Statutes — current through the 2025 Regular Session
Find cases:
SyfertCases citing this section
FL-LEGleg.state.fl.us
JustiaFla. Statutes
CornellLII Search
CasesGoogle Scholar
454.20 Attorneys not to be sureties.—No attorney shall become surety on the official bond of any state, county, or municipal officer of this state, nor surety on any bond of a client in judicial proceedings.
History.—s. 20, ch. 10175, 1925; CGL 4198.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases, 1960–2013 · leading case: State Ex Rel. Florida Bar v. Oxford, 127 So. 2d 107 (Fla. 1960).
State Ex Rel. Florida Bar v. Oxford, 127 So. 2d 107 (Fla. 1960). “" Section 454.20, Florida Statutes, F.S.A., is pertinent and is as follows: "No attorney shall become surety on the official bond of any state, county, or municipal officer of this state, nor surety on any bond of a client in judicial proceedings.”
US Bank, N.A. v. Boyer, 125 So. 3d 997 (Fla. 2d DCA 2013). “See § 454.20, Fla. Stat. (2011); Fla. R. Jud.”
Crownover v. Schonfeld, 214 So. 2d 499 (Fla. 3d DCA 1968). “The appellants’ main contention is that § 454.20, Fla.Stat., F.S.A., which prohibits an attorney from becoming a surety *500 on a bond of his client, precludes the appellees from recovery.”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the
Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and
treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.