Death Certificate apostille for Argentina.

When someone with property or bank accounts in Argentina dies in Florida, the heirs open a sucesión before an Argentine court, and the judge needs the apostilled Florida death certificate with a traductor público translation. A bank, a pension office and the property registry may each keep a copy, so order several certified copies from the Bureau of Vital Statistics at once and apostille each one you'll file. The certificate must be signed by the State Registrar. A funeral home's working copy, or a certification from before 2014, can't be apostilled.

Our general rule is a translation certified by the translator, notarized by a separate notary and apostilled in Florida, but Argentina instead requires an in-country professional for official filings. Under Law 20.305, foreign-language documents filed with Argentine authorities need a Spanish translation by a registered traductor público, and Migraciones and the Buenos Aires Registro Civil also want the Colegio de Traductores to legalize the translator's signature. Get the Florida apostille first so the traductor público translates the apostille page too.