When is a Florida notice of appeal from a final order due?

Identify the actual final order and proper reviewing court.

Obtain the signed written order’s clerk filing and resolve qualifying rendition-postponing motions.

Confirm the Rule 9.110(b) civil branch before entering actual rendition.

1. Identify the actual final order and proper reviewing court.
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.

Fictitious example

Fictitious facts. A qualifying civil final order is signed and filed with the lower tribunal clerk, with no tolling motion. The independently established event is August 2, 2027. No additional holiday, mail-only addition, tolling or different order applies.

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.

Rendition is the signed written order’s filing, not its announcement

Rule 9.020(h) ordinarily defines rendition when a signed, written order is filed with the lower tribunal’s clerk. Establish that actual filing and any authorized, timely motion that postpones rendition. A judge’s oral announcement, signature date or later delivery is not automatically the operative event.

Only qualifying motions postpone rendition

Rule 9.020(h)(1) lists the authorized and timely motions that toll rendition, subject to contrary applicable procedure. For motions directed to a final order, paragraph (h)(2) generally waits until all are withdrawn by filed written notice or the last is resolved by rendered order. An order granting a new trial concludes tolling despite other pending motions. Establish the actual branch, not an assumed extension.

The notice identifies the actual order and proceeding

Rule 9.110(d) requires the prescribed notice form, party and lower-tribunal information, reviewing court, rendition date and nature of the order. Except in criminal cases, attach conformed copies of the designated order and any order on a timely rendition-postponing motion. Indicate a pending qualifying motion and preserve the required later notification.

Partial final judgments require their own classification

Rule 9.110(k) distinguishes separate, noninterdependent causes from orders disposing of an entire case as to a party. An order totally disposing of the case as to a party must be appealed within thirty days of rendition. Do not wait for the entire litigation to end without classifying the actual order.

• 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.

• Identify the actual final order and proper reviewing court.
• Obtain the signed written order’s clerk filing and resolve qualifying rendition-postponing motions.
• Confirm the Rule 9.110(b) civil branch before entering actual rendition.
• Rule 9.020(h) ordinarily defines rendition when a signed, written order is filed with the lower tribunal’s clerk. Establish that actual filing and any authorized, timely motion that postpones rendition. A judge’s oral announcement, signature date or later delivery is not automatically the operative event.
• Rule 9.020(h)(1) lists the authorized and timely motions that toll rendition, subject to contrary applicable procedure. For motions directed to a final order, paragraph (h)(2) generally waits until all are withdrawn by filed written notice or the last is resolved by rendered order. An order granting a new trial concludes tolling despite other pending motions. Establish the actual branch, not an assumed extension.
• Rule 9.110(d) requires the prescribed notice form, party and lower-tribunal information, reviewing court, rendition date and nature of the order. Except in criminal cases, attach conformed copies of the designated order and any order on a timely rendition-postponing motion. Indicate a pending qualifying motion and preserve the required later notification.
• Rule 9.110(k) distinguishes separate, noninterdependent causes from orders disposing of an entire case as to a party. An order totally disposing of the case as to a party must be appealed within thirty days of rendition. Do not wait for the entire litigation to end without classifying the actual order.
• File the prescribed notice with the lower tribunal clerk. Complete applicable service, order attachments and fee or indigency requirements. Preserve the order, tolling record and filing receipt. 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.