When is a Florida final-order cross-appeal notice due?

Verify that the appellant’s original notice was timely filed.

Establish actual service and whether a mail-only addition applies to the service-based branch.

Independently determine the original notice deadline from the applicable rendition and any qualifying postponement.

1. Verify that the appellant’s original notice was timely filed.
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.

Rule 9.110(g) selects the later of two independent deadlines and prescribes separate service and filing. The encoded fifteen-day preset does not perform that comparison.

Compare the fifteen-day service period with the original notice period

Establish the appellant’s timely notice, its actual service and the independently computed expiration for an original notice. The cross-appeal uses the later of those two deadlines. Do not add fifteen days to the original expiration or always select the service-based date.

Service and filing are separate required acts

Rule 9.110(g) requires service by the applicable later deadline and filing before service or immediately thereafter in the manner of the original notice. Preserve both actual receipts.

The original notice period depends on actual rendition

Rule 9.020(h) governs lower-tribunal rendition and the specified authorized timely motions. Establish the original appeal expiration before comparing it with the service-based period.

Mail-only service affects only the service-based branch

Rule 2.514(b) supplies its five-day addition after the ordinary computation only when an act is measured after service made only by mail. Do not apply it automatically to the original rendition-based period.

• 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.

• Verify that the appellant’s original notice was timely filed.
• Establish actual service and whether a mail-only addition applies to the service-based branch.
• Independently determine the original notice deadline from the applicable rendition and any qualifying postponement.
• Establish the appellant’s timely notice, its actual service and the independently computed expiration for an original notice. The cross-appeal uses the later of those two deadlines. Do not add fifteen days to the original expiration or always select the service-based date.
• Rule 9.110(g) requires service by the applicable later deadline and filing before service or immediately thereafter in the manner of the original notice. Preserve both actual receipts.
• Rule 9.020(h) governs lower-tribunal rendition and the specified authorized timely motions. Establish the original appeal expiration before comparing it with the service-based period.
• Rule 2.514(b) supplies its five-day addition after the ordinary computation only when an act is measured after service made only by mail. Do not apply it automatically to the original rendition-based period.
• Serve the cross-notice by the later established deadline. File it before service or immediately afterward as prescribed, with required fee or indigency treatment. Preserve both independently computed endpoints, original filing, actual service and cross-notice 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.