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When must a party seek review of a Florida appellate costs or fees order?

Review of a lower tribunal order rendered under Rule 9.400 proceeds by motion filed in the appellate court within thirty days of actual rendition under paragraph (c). Establish that the order belongs to this appellate costs or fees procedure and determine lower-tribunal rendition under Rule 9.020(h). Do not substitute a notice of appeal, the original appellate order or later service of the costs order.

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Period: Thirty calendar days after actual eligible lower-tribunal order rendition
Trigger: Actual lower-tribunal rendition of the eligible Rule 9.400 costs or fees order
Rule: Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.400(c)

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 lower-tribunal rendition of the eligible Rule 9.400 costs or fees order

Use only after identifying an order rendered under Rule 9.400, actual Rule 9.020(h) rendition and the proper appellate court. Other trial-level fee orders require their own review route.

Entry rules and timing exceptions

30 days from Actual lower-tribunal rendition of the eligible Rule 9.400 costs or fees order

Fla. R. App. P. 9.400(c)Binding

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Which actual event starts this Florida appellate period?

Identify the actual lower-tribunal order and establish that it was rendered under Rule 9.400.

Obtain the signed written order’s clerk filing and resolve any applicable authorized timely rendition-postponing motion.

Identify the appellate court and prepare the required review motion rather than assuming a notice-of-appeal procedure.

Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.400(c)

How does Florida count this appellate period?

Identify the actual lower-tribunal order and establish that it was rendered under Rule 9.400.
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 lower tribunal’s eligible Rule 9.400 costs or fees order is actually rendered with no unresolved applicable rendition-postponing motion. 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 lower-tribunal rendition of the eligible Rule 9.400 costs or fees order	August 2, 2027
Applicable period	Thirty calendar days after actual eligible lower-tribunal order rendition	Wednesday, September 1, 2027

Example resultWednesday, September 1, 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 order must belong to the Rule 9.400 procedure: Rule 9.400(c) addresses orders rendered by the lower tribunal under that rule. Establish the appellate costs or fees context. Do not apply it indiscriminately to every trial-level fee or cost award.
Lower-tribunal rendition differs from appellate docket rendition: Rule 9.020(h) ordinarily defines lower-tribunal rendition by filing of the signed written order with its clerk and identifies applicable authorized timely motions. Establish the actual branch before selecting the event.
The prescribed review act is a motion filed in the appellate court: Rule 9.400(c) specifies motion review in the appellate court within thirty days. Service alone or a different notice document does not establish completion of that filing act.
Mailing the order does not automatically add five days: Rule 2.514(b) addresses party acts measured after mail-only service. This review uses rendition, so delivery or mailing of the order does not automatically change its event or add time.

Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.400(c)

This page does not establish appealability, jurisdiction, disputed facts, sufficiency or an extension.
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What must be filed, served and preserved?

Identify the actual lower-tribunal order and establish that it was rendered under Rule 9.400.
Obtain the signed written order’s clerk filing and resolve any applicable authorized timely rendition-postponing motion.
Identify the appellate court and prepare the required review motion rather than assuming a notice-of-appeal procedure.
Rule 9.400(c) addresses orders rendered by the lower tribunal under that rule. Establish the appellate costs or fees context. Do not apply it indiscriminately to every trial-level fee or cost award.
Rule 9.020(h) ordinarily defines lower-tribunal rendition by filing of the signed written order with its clerk and identifies applicable authorized timely motions. Establish the actual branch before selecting the event.
Rule 9.400(c) specifies motion review in the appellate court within thirty days. Service alone or a different notice document does not establish completion of that filing act.
Rule 2.514(b) addresses party acts measured after mail-only service. This review uses rendition, so delivery or mailing of the order does not automatically change its event or add time.
File the Rule 9.400(c) review motion with the appellate court within the applicable period and complete required service. Preserve the eligible lower-tribunal order, actual rendition, any applicable motion treatment and filing 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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