The district at a glance
- Three divisions — Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach — with seven active bankruptcy judges plus two on recall, led by Chief Judge Scott M. Grossman; cases are randomly assigned within the division of the debtor's address
- 2025 consumer filings: 14,867 (8,307 Chapter 7 · 6,535 Chapter 13)
- Filing fees: $338 for Chapter 7, $313 for Chapter 13; amendments adding creditors cost $34 — and the clerk takes no personal checks, cash by mail, or credit cards
- Local rules amended and restated effective June 1, 2026, with renumbering throughout — old citations and stale checklists don't map
- All consumer §341 meetings virtual by Zoom since October 2023, with per-trustee meeting IDs on the court's own page
- No deadlines get set — and no §341 notice issues — until a compliant creditor matrix is filed, and in Chapter 13, the plan too
Official court website: flsb.uscourts.gov
Flat per-case pricing, S.D. Fla. or anywhere
$300 personal Chapter 7 · $400 business Chapter 7 · $400 Chapter 13 without plan · $500 with the LF-31 plan drafted. No retainer, no minimum, no long-term contract — and if the trustee kicks something back, we fix it at no charge.
District details verified August 2026 against the court's Amended and Restated Local Rules (eff. June 1, 2026), local form LF-31 (rev. 6/1/2026) and the local forms index, the MMM Program Procedures (rev. 6/1/2026), the Clerk's Instructions (CI-1, CI-2, CI-3), the trustees' published requirements, the U.S. Trustee Program's §341 notices and means-testing tables, and the AO's CY2025 filing statistics. Rules, forms, trustee assignments, and median-income figures change — always confirm against current sources at flsb.uscourts.gov and justice.gov/ust. Services are provided exclusively to licensed attorneys and law firms. We are not a bankruptcy petition preparer and do not provide legal advice or services to the public.