Durable Power of Attorney in Tampa (Hillsborough County), Florida

Recording in Hillsborough County

Recording is optional for validity. On 2026-10-02 the recording page did not name a power of attorney, and the fee page did not either. That silence is not a duty to record, and it is not a statement that the office cannot record one. Whether a title company wants it recorded needs a Florida attorney.

The Clerk of Court Recording Department records, indexes, and archives the documents that create the Official Records of Hillsborough County. The same office is the county recorder. It also collects documentary stamp taxes, intangible taxes, recording fees, and other fees. It is the Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller. The clerk named on the clerk site is Victor D. Crist. That is the office holder, not a recording-desk person.

Court customer service is a different building. Do not use that counter, and do not use the court e-filing portal, to record a financial power of attorney.

Primary recording page (checked 2026-10-02): Hillsborough Clerk recording. Walk-in sites and hours: service options and locations. Office holder: Victor D. Crist. Search of records already in Official Records is not the recording counter: Official Records search.

Where to go

Recording is on the clerk's Recording service list: downtown Tampa, Brandon, and Plant City. Those are branches of this same clerk, not city recorders. The locations page offers Get In Line Now for Recording.

The Tampa recording building is the Pat Collier Frank Courthouse. Hours printed on that building block are 8 AM to 5 PM, Monday through Friday. Phone (813) 276-8100. The same phone is on the recording page's options table.

The clerk's own pages do not agree on one downtown Tampa street, or on one mail ZIP. This page does not pick a door and does not pick a ZIP. Use the current recording page for the street and the mail line before you go or send anything.

The recording page does not print a clock time. It points wait times to the locations page. Use the building hours on that page. The locations page says to check the holiday schedule. This page does not invent a closed date.

Email is not a way to record a power of attorney. The options table sends Email to a contact form. A deed answer on the recording page says an original can be brought in or mailed, but not by email. The address [email protected] is printed for subscription help and for redaction or removal requests. Do not use it to record. Contact form (not recording): email the clerk.

In person, mail, and vendor e-recording

In person is the only path the clerk says guarantees same-day recording. The recording page says mail and e-recording are processed in the order received, and the clerk cannot guarantee same-day or next-day recording for those. For a time-sensitive document, record in person. Confirm the current Tampa street on the recording page before you go. Brandon and Plant City are on the same Recording list.

Mail uses the recording page's mail line, with a Recording Transmittal form or a cover letter, and a self-addressed stamped envelope large enough for the return. The same page does not use one ZIP for every document type. Do not guess which line receives a power of attorney. Confirm the current mail line on the recording page.

The Recording Transmittal form is linked from the recording page. It is not a Chapter 709 form, and it is not the document on this page.

eRecord only through a third-party vendor. The clerk provides a list of vendors as a courtesy and is precluded from recommending any vendor. You use a vendor at your own risk. Power of attorney is not named. This page does not claim you can e-record a financial power of attorney. Phones and vendor sites stay on the clerk's page. They are not copied here.

Vendors as listed on the recording page on 2026-10-02, in that order: CSC Corporation Service Company; e-Doc Solutions; eRecordings Partners Network; Indecomm Global Services; RecordNation, Low Volume Vendor; Simplifile; File and Go (notices of commencement); eRecordingUSA; Hopdox; Swift-E Recording Services.

The recording page also announces a consumer e-recording portal for notices of commencement only. That is not a consumer path for a financial power of attorney.

No drop box was published on the recording page or the locations page checked 2026-10-02. Do not use one.

The recording page, which dates its note to January 1, 2024, describes a witness-name and post-office-address rule for an instrument that conveys, assigns, encumbers, or otherwise disposes of an interest in real property. Power of attorney is not in the types named there. A Florida attorney should review that note before anyone applies it to a financial power of attorney. It is not a substitute for § 709.2105, and it is not a Hillsborough execution rule.

Recording charges

See the fee page. Charges can change. These are general recording charges, not a power-of-attorney fee.

The fee page has a Recording Services heading. It does not name a power of attorney. Do not use a deed calculator, a mortgage calculator, or a copy charge as a power of attorney price. The recording page links a Recording Services Fees jump. On 2026-10-02 that link stayed on the fee page. This page does not promise the jump will scroll to the table. Hillsborough fees and fines.

Not the court portal

Recording a financial power of attorney is the Clerk Recording Department path above. The Florida Courts E-Filing Portal is for filing court documents online. Do not use myflcourtaccess.com to record a durable power of attorney. myflcourtaccess.com.

Edgecomb Courthouse, 800 E. Twiggs Street, Tampa, is court customer service. Room 101 on that building block is Customer Service, Monday through Friday, 8 AM to 5 PM. Recording is not on that service list. Do not take a power of attorney there because it is the courthouse.