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

Confirm the order is designated in the appellant’s notice and the ruling falls within Rule 9.130(a)(3)–(5).

Verify the original notice’s actual timely filing and its actual service.

Independently compute the original nonfinal notice expiration and compare both applicable endpoints.

1. Confirm the order is designated in the appellant’s notice and the ruling falls within Rule 9.130(a)(3)–(5).
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.

The nonfinal cross-appeal requires an authorized designated order and the later of two independently established periods. A single encoded fifteen-day preset does not establish its date.

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.

Cross-review remains within the designated order and authorized classes

Rule 9.130(g) permits cross-appeal of the order or orders the appellant designated, to review the stated rulings in paragraphs (a)(3)–(5). A matching period does not make an unrelated interlocutory ruling appealable.

A judgment-relief order’s rehearing does not toll its original period

Rule 9.130(a)(5) expressly states that rehearing of its judgment-relief order is unauthorized and does not toll notice filing. Establish that branch before computing the original expiration.

Mail-only service is a separate computation issue

Rule 2.514(b) adds five days after the ordinary period when the act is measured after service made only by mail. Verify that condition for the service branch without extending the rendition-based original 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.

• Confirm the order is designated in the appellant’s notice and the ruling falls within Rule 9.130(a)(3)–(5).
• Verify the original notice’s actual timely filing and its actual service.
• Independently compute the original nonfinal notice expiration and compare both applicable endpoints.
• 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 9.130(g) permits cross-appeal of the order or orders the appellant designated, to review the stated rulings in paragraphs (a)(3)–(5). A matching period does not make an unrelated interlocutory ruling appealable.
• Rule 9.130(a)(5) expressly states that rehearing of its judgment-relief order is unauthorized and does not toll notice filing. Establish that branch before computing the original expiration.
• Rule 2.514(b) adds five days after the ordinary period when the act is measured after service made only by mail. Verify that condition for the service branch without extending the rendition-based original period.
• Serve the qualifying cross-notice by the later established expiration and file before service or immediately thereafter with the prescribed order copy and required fee or indigency treatment. Preserve both computations and both acts. 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.