When must a Florida clerk prepare the appellate record and serve its index?

Obtain actual notice-of-appeal filing and identify the proper record procedure.

Determine whether the Rule 9.200(c) cross-appeal record procedure applies.

Check special record treatment and actual extension or preparation orders.

1. Obtain actual notice-of-appeal filing and identify the proper record procedure.
2. 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.
3. Check the observed statutory holidays, actual clerk calendar and chief-justice directions.
4. 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.

The fifty-day ordinary clerk duty changes under the actual cross-appeal record procedure, special appeal and extension order. The encoded base cannot establish every record-preparation date.

Preparation and service belong to the clerk

Rule 9.110(e) requires the lower tribunal clerk to prepare the Rule 9.200 record and serve copies of its index on all parties. This is not a party’s record-designation deadline.

The cross-appeal record procedure changes the ordinary base

Rule 9.200(c) supplies the stated cross-appellant and cross-appellee additions and extends preparation and transmittal by ten days. Establish that actual branch instead of assuming fifty days always controls.

An actual record extension can affect briefing

Rule 9.300(b) provides the stated automatic related-period consequences of an order extending record, index or transcript preparation. Preserve the actual order and resulting timetable rather than treating an extension request as a grant.

Special final appeals have different record instructions

Rule 9.110(i) does not transmit a bond-validation record unless ordered by the Supreme Court. Paragraph (j) separately addresses appeals from a DCA order. Establish the governing procedure before applying the ordinary clerk duty.

• 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.

• Obtain actual notice-of-appeal filing and identify the proper record procedure.
• Determine whether the Rule 9.200(c) cross-appeal record procedure applies.
• Check special record treatment and actual extension or preparation orders.
• Rule 9.110(e) requires the lower tribunal clerk to prepare the Rule 9.200 record and serve copies of its index on all parties. This is not a party’s record-designation deadline.
• Rule 9.200(c) supplies the stated cross-appellant and cross-appellee additions and extends preparation and transmittal by ten days. Establish that actual branch instead of assuming fifty days always controls.
• Rule 9.300(b) provides the stated automatic related-period consequences of an order extending record, index or transcript preparation. Preserve the actual order and resulting timetable rather than treating an extension request as a grant.
• Rule 9.110(i) does not transmit a bond-validation record unless ordered by the Supreme Court. Paragraph (j) separately addresses appeals from a DCA order. Establish the governing procedure before applying the ordinary clerk duty.
• The clerk prepares the Rule 9.200 record and serves the index on all parties. Parties preserve designations, service, actual clerk communications and any order. Do not treat an estimated preparation date as proof that the index was served. 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.