When may a party respond to a Florida appellate motion?

Identify the actual motion and exclude the separate Rule 9.410(b) sanctions procedure.

Establish actual controlling motion service and its method.

Check whether the court shortened or extended the response period.

1. Identify the actual motion and exclude the separate Rule 9.410(b) sanctions 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.

Fictitious example

Fictitious facts. An ordinary nonsanctions appellate motion is actually served electronically with no different response order. 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.

One ordinary response is permitted

Rule 9.300(a) permits one response to an ordinary motion. Do not infer an additional automatic response or reply timetable from the fifteen-day provision.

The court may set different response time

Rule 9.300(a) expressly permits the court to shorten or extend motion response time. Use the actual order rather than overriding it with the ordinary preset.

Party sanctions motions use a different procedure

Rule 9.300(a) expressly excepts Rule 9.410(b) motions. Establish that procedure and any actual court direction separately.

Mail-only service needs its separately computed addition

Rule 2.514(b) gives a party five additional days after the otherwise computed expiration when the prescribed act runs from service made only by mail. This calculator covers the established ordinary service branch without that addition. Email and portal service do not automatically receive it.

Motion tolling requires the actual applicable category

Rule 9.300(b) ordinarily tolls the court proceeding’s time schedule on motion service until disposition, subject to the twelve excluded categories in paragraph (d). An actual extension order can also change related acts. Establish the motion, exception and court action separately instead of assuming every motion tolls every deadline.

• 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 motion and exclude the separate Rule 9.410(b) sanctions procedure.
• Establish actual controlling motion service and its method.
• Check whether the court shortened or extended the response period.
• Rule 9.300(a) permits one response to an ordinary motion. Do not infer an additional automatic response or reply timetable from the fifteen-day provision.
• Rule 9.300(a) expressly permits the court to shorten or extend motion response time. Use the actual order rather than overriding it with the ordinary preset.
• Rule 9.300(a) expressly excepts Rule 9.410(b) motions. Establish that procedure and any actual court direction separately.
• Rule 2.514(b) gives a party five additional days after the otherwise computed expiration when the prescribed act runs from service made only by mail. This calculator covers the established ordinary service branch without that addition. Email and portal service do not automatically receive it.
• Rule 9.300(b) ordinarily tolls the court proceeding’s time schedule on motion service until disposition, subject to the twelve excluded categories in paragraph (d). An actual extension order can also change related acts. Establish the motion, exception and court action separately instead of assuming every motion tolls every deadline.
• Serve the permitted response by the applicable date and complete its required filing with the appellate court. Preserve actual motion service, any response-time order and response service and filing 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.