As Twinkle indicated, titling/registering your vehicle for the first time in Florida is very expensive. Ours was around $500.00, which included retitling/registering one car and two Florida driver’s licenses.
The easiest thing to do is to stop by the the DMV on 466a and pick up their checklist of required documentation. But I can tell you, the first thing you will need to do is obtain Florida car insurance. You can get a Florida driver’s license without Florida auto insurance, but you need the insurance to register your vehicle here, so you may as well get the insurance in place before you even go to the DMV because everything can be done at the same time if you have all the documentation you need..
The bad news (beyond the expense) is that Florida is among the strictest (paperwork wise) states to get a driver’s license. The good news is that the DMV personnel are efficient and pleasant.
As others have mentioned, be aware that if the name on your current identification doesn’t match the name on your birth certificate, you will need to provide a “paper-trail” showing how you ended up with your current name. That’s not normally a problem for men, but for women, they will need to show a marriage certificate...and women who have had previous marriages/name changes might need to provide marriage (and possibly) divorce documents from their previous marriages.
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