When does a Florida court enter the order setting an actual trial period?

Obtain the actual Rule 1.200 case-management order and identify its projected trial period.

Determine whether an earlier-setting or non-Rule-1.200 procedure applies instead.

Preserve the actual trial-setting order’s entry, court service, trial period and any subsequent continuation order.

1. Obtain the actual Rule 1.200 case-management order and identify its projected trial period.
2. The forty-five-day provision runs backward from the projected period for the court’s entry duty. Rule 2.514(a)(5) identifies direction by whether the event is before or after the required act. This source guide does not assume a final-day rollover, actual trial setting or party filing allowance from the isolated preset.
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 forty-five-day backward provision governs the court’s entry of an actual setting order, subject to the projected-period procedure and other readiness branches. Its review-only preset cannot establish that order, an actual trial date or a party motion deadline. No computed or paid date is available.

A projected period does not itself establish the actual setting

Rule 1.440(c)(2) links the court’s entry duty to the projected period in the actual Rule 1.200 order. Preserve both documents and identify whether the period remains a projection. Do not replace actual court action with a generated calendar entry.

Readiness and earlier settings have distinct branches

Rule 1.440(c)(1) permits an earlier trial-period order when the court finds the action ready, on a party’s motion or its own initiative. Paragraph (c)(3) addresses cases outside Rules 1.200 and 1.201 after the readiness finding. Rule 1.440(a) does not require closed pleadings before a case can be set.

A trial-setting motion has prescribed contents and judge service

Rule 1.440(b) requires the stated trial estimate, expedited basis, jury status, proceeding type and applicable remote-jury information. The movant must serve the presiding judge when filing the motion. The forty-five-day court-entry language does not satisfy those party requirements.

Court service starts the minimum-notice inquiry

Rule 1.440(c)(4) requires the actual trial period to begin at least thirty days after court service of the order, unless all parties agree otherwise. Order entry alone is not that service event, and the minimum does not supply an actual trial date.

Defaulted parties and Chapter 51 require separate treatment

Rule 1.440(d) requires prescribed service of the setting order on defaulted parties in the stated nonliquidated-damages and Rule 1.500(e) circumstances. Paragraph (e) excludes Chapter 51 actions from Rule 1.440. Establish the actual action and recipients.

An actual trial-period change needs the continuation procedure

Rule 1.200(e)(2) directs changes to an actual period to Rule 1.460. A projected-period change follows the different prescribed amendment procedure. A filed request, unavailability notice or party calculation does not itself alter the actual period.

• This page does not establish valid service, pleading sufficiency, waived defenses or permission to extend a period.
• Check the governing historical edition, actual motions, orders, clerk holidays and filing receipts.

• Obtain the actual Rule 1.200 case-management order and identify its projected trial period.
• Determine whether an earlier-setting or non-Rule-1.200 procedure applies instead.
• Preserve the actual trial-setting order’s entry, court service, trial period and any subsequent continuation order.
• Rule 1.440(c)(2) links the court’s entry duty to the projected period in the actual Rule 1.200 order. Preserve both documents and identify whether the period remains a projection. Do not replace actual court action with a generated calendar entry.
• Rule 1.440(c)(1) permits an earlier trial-period order when the court finds the action ready, on a party’s motion or its own initiative. Paragraph (c)(3) addresses cases outside Rules 1.200 and 1.201 after the readiness finding. Rule 1.440(a) does not require closed pleadings before a case can be set.
• Rule 1.440(b) requires the stated trial estimate, expedited basis, jury status, proceeding type and applicable remote-jury information. The movant must serve the presiding judge when filing the motion. The forty-five-day court-entry language does not satisfy those party requirements.
• Rule 1.440(c)(4) requires the actual trial period to begin at least thirty days after court service of the order, unless all parties agree otherwise. Order entry alone is not that service event, and the minimum does not supply an actual trial date.
• Rule 1.440(d) requires prescribed service of the setting order on defaulted parties in the stated nonliquidated-damages and Rule 1.500(e) circumstances. Paragraph (e) excludes Chapter 51 actions from Rule 1.440. Establish the actual action and recipients.
• Rule 1.200(e)(2) directs changes to an actual period to Rule 1.460. A projected-period change follows the different prescribed amendment procedure. A filed request, unavailability notice or party calculation does not itself alter the actual period.
• Preserve the projected-period order, actual trial-setting order and service evidence. A party moving to set trial under Rule 1.440(b) must supply the prescribed trial information and serve the presiding judge when filing. The court’s entry of an actual order is a separate act. Check service on defaulted parties under paragraph (d) and any actual trial-continuance order. Rule 1.080(b) incorporates Rule 2.525 filing. 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 filing timestamp under Rule 2.525(e). Rule 2.514(a)(4) ordinarily sets 11:59:59 p.m. Eastern Time for electronic filing or service by any means, and scheduled clerk closing for nonelectronic filing. Complete filing and required service as separate acts. A computed date does not establish successful submission, valid original process or sufficient pleading.