United States · Florida appellate procedure

When may a Florida appellant direct record inclusions or exclusions?

Within ten days after actual notice-of-appeal filing, an appellant may direct the lower tribunal clerk to include or exclude other filed documents or exhibits under Rule 9.200(a)(2). The direction must substantially follow Rule 9.900(g). If designating less than the entire record or less than all trial testimony, serve the required statement of judicial acts with the direction. These optional record directions differ from transcript designation.

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Period: Ten calendar days after actual notice filing for the appellant’s optional directions
Trigger: Actual notice-of-appeal filing under the established Rule 9.200(a)(2) record procedure
Rule: Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.200(a)(2)

Florida Rules of Appellate Procedure and Rules of General Practice and Judicial Administration

Official appellate compilation published October 1, 2026 and general practice compilation published July 1, 2026

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Actual notice-of-appeal filing under the established Rule 9.200(a)(2) record procedure

Use for the appellant’s ordinary Rule 9.200(a)(2) directions after establishing actual notice filing and no different applicable record order.

Entry rules and timing exceptions

10 days from Actual notice-of-appeal filing under the established Rule 9.200(a)(2) record procedure

Fla. R. App. P. 9.200(a)(2)Binding

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Which actual event starts this Florida appellate period?

Establish actual notice-of-appeal filing and the applicable ordinary record procedure.

Identify which filed documents or exhibits need inclusion or exclusion.

Determine whether the reduced-record judicial-acts statement must accompany the direction.

Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.200(a)(2)

How does Florida count this appellate period?

Establish actual notice-of-appeal filing and the applicable ordinary record procedure.
Rule 9.420(e) incorporates Rule 2.514(a). Exclude the established event. For seven days or longer, begin with the next day that is not Saturday, Sunday or a legal holiday. Count intermediate calendar days. For fewer than seven days, omit intermediate Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays. Do not treat a seven-day period as seven business days.
Check the observed statutory holidays, actual clerk calendar and chief-justice directions.
Complete the required act with the proper court or recipient.

Apply the observed New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Jr. birthday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veterans’ Day, Thanksgiving Day, Friday after Thanksgiving and Christmas Day holidays. Section 110.117 observes Saturday holidays on the preceding Friday and Sunday holidays on the following Monday. Rule 2.514 also includes clerk-observed holidays and days designated by the chief justice or chief judge. An ineligible final day moves in the counting direction. The bundled Florida calendar covers 2026 through 2028. Verify additional closures and chief-justice extensions separately.

Florida Rule of General Practice and Judicial Administration 2.514(a)

What do the independently derived facts show?

Fictitious example

Fictitious facts. The notice is actually filed and the appellant chooses ordinary record additions or exclusions. The independently established event is August 2, 2027. No additional holiday, mail-only addition, tolling or different order applies.

Example counting steps
Step	What is counted	Date
Established event	Actual notice-of-appeal filing under the established Rule 9.200(a)(2) record procedure	August 2, 2027
Applicable period	Ten calendar days after actual notice filing for the appellant’s optional directions	Thursday, August 12, 2027

Example resultThursday, August 12, 2027

Fictitious facts. Establish the stated procedure and actual event separately. No mail-only addition, further clerk holiday, tolling motion, chief-justice extension or different actual court order is assumed.

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Which Florida appellate qualifications change the procedure?

The ordinary record has prescribed contents: Rule 9.200(a)(1) identifies filed lower-tribunal documents, applicable exhibits, filed transcripts and the progress docket, with specified exclusions and special criminal-exhibit treatment. Establish what is already included before directing additions or exclusions.
A reduced designation requires the judicial-acts statement: When directing less than the entire record or a trial transcript with less than all testimony, Rule 9.200(a)(2) requires service of a statement of the judicial acts to be reviewed with the direction. A shorter record does not remove that explanatory duty.
Directions use the prescribed form: Rule 9.200(a)(2) requires directions substantially in the form prescribed by Rule 9.900(g). Identify the actual documents or exhibits rather than assuming every excluded discovery document becomes part of the record.
A stipulated statement is a separate record method: Rule 9.200(a)(3) permits a stipulated statement of the issues and necessary record, with early notice to the clerk and filing and transmittal within the record-transmittal period. The ordinary directions calculator does not select that different method.

Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.200(a)(2)

This page does not establish appealability, jurisdiction, disputed facts, sufficiency or an extension.
Check the governing historical edition, actual motions, orders, clerk holidays and filing receipts.

What must be filed, served and preserved?

Establish actual notice-of-appeal filing and the applicable ordinary record procedure.
Identify which filed documents or exhibits need inclusion or exclusion.
Determine whether the reduced-record judicial-acts statement must accompany the direction.
Rule 9.200(a)(1) identifies filed lower-tribunal documents, applicable exhibits, filed transcripts and the progress docket, with specified exclusions and special criminal-exhibit treatment. Establish what is already included before directing additions or exclusions.
When directing less than the entire record or a trial transcript with less than all testimony, Rule 9.200(a)(2) requires service of a statement of the judicial acts to be reviewed with the direction. A shorter record does not remove that explanatory duty.
Rule 9.200(a)(2) requires directions substantially in the form prescribed by Rule 9.900(g). Identify the actual documents or exhibits rather than assuming every excluded discovery document becomes part of the record.
Rule 9.200(a)(3) permits a stipulated statement of the issues and necessary record, with early notice to the clerk and filing and transmittal within the record-transmittal period. The ordinary directions calculator does not select that different method.
Submit the substantially prescribed Rule 9.900(g) directions to the lower tribunal clerk and complete required service, including the reduced-record judicial-acts statement when applicable. Preserve actual notice filing and directions and service receipts. Identify the proper clerk and complete filing and service as separate acts. Rule 9.420(a) incorporates Rule 2.525. Attorneys ordinarily file through the portal or designated electronic facility. An eligible unrepresented party may elect electronic filing; prescribed paper exceptions remain. Preserve the successful portal or clerk filing timestamp under Rule 2.525(e). Unless another controlling time applies, Rule 2.514(a)(4) sets 11:59:59 p.m. Eastern Time for electronic filing or service by any means, and scheduled clerk closing for nonelectronic filing. Rule 9.420(a)(2) separately addresses qualifying unrepresented inmate filings and their proof. This calculator does not establish successful submission, sufficiency, a tolling motion or permission to extend a jurisdictional period. Rule 9.420(b)–(d) incorporates Rule 2.516 service and proof. Portal service is complete on filing for listed recipients, subject to promptly serving a recipient known not to have received the document. Email service is complete when sent. Permitted paper mail service is complete on mailing; delivery is complete on delivery. Rule 2.514(b) adds five days after the otherwise computed expiration only when the act is measured after service and service was made only by mail. Email or portal service does not automatically add five days. A filing-based or rendition-based period does not gain five days because another document was mailed. Establish the actual applicable service before choosing a service-based period.

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