When must a Florida appellant report the end of a pending tolling motion?

Obtain the notice of appeal that identified the qualifying pending motion and its filing date.

Establish whether actual withdrawal or completed rendition supplies the notification event.

Resolve the effect of multiple qualifying motions and preserve the written record of the operative event.

1. Obtain the notice of appeal that identified the qualifying pending motion and its filing date.
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. The appeal notice disclosed a qualifying pending motion. Its actual withdrawal or completed rendition event is established. 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.

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.

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.

An early notice may remain in abeyance

Rule 9.020(h)(2)(C) holds an appeal filed before disposition of all qualifying motions in abeyance until their withdrawal or resolution. The notification period does not establish that an unresolved motion has ended.

Withdrawal and disposition require different documents

Rule 9.110(d) requires either a notice indicating withdrawal or the conformed signed written order disposing of the rendition-postponing motion. Preserve the applicable event and document; do not substitute an informal communication.

• 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 the notice of appeal that identified the qualifying pending motion and its filing date.
• Establish whether actual withdrawal or completed rendition supplies the notification event.
• Resolve the effect of multiple qualifying motions and preserve the written record of the operative event.
• 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 9.020(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 9.020(h)(2)(C) holds an appeal filed before disposition of all qualifying motions in abeyance until their withdrawal or resolution. The notification period does not establish that an unresolved motion has ended.
• Rule 9.110(d) requires either a notice indicating withdrawal or the conformed signed written order disposing of the rendition-postponing motion. Preserve the applicable event and document; do not substitute an informal communication.
• File the withdrawal notice or required conformed signed written disposition order in the appellate court. Preserve the original notice, motion record, withdrawal or disposition and successful filing and service. 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.