When may a Florida party demand a jury on additional issues after a partial demand?

Read the actual prior demand and determine whether it specifies only some issues.

Identify other or all issues actually triable by jury and the party making the additional demand.

Obtain actual service of the partial demand and every order setting a different time.

1. Read the actual prior demand and determine whether it specifies only some issues.
2. Rule 1.090(a) 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. Another party’s demand specifies only some triable issues and is actually served electronically. No order changes the additional-demand time. The actual triggering event occurs August 2, 2027. No mail-only addition, further clerk holiday or different actual 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.

A demand without issue specifications covers all triable issues

Rule 1.430(c) treats an unspecified demand as one for all issues triable by jury. Establish the actual demand’s scope rather than assuming every demand opens a new ten-day additional-issues opportunity.

The additional issues must be triable by jury

Rule 1.430(a) preserves the constitutional or statutory jury right, and paragraph (c) limits the additional demand to triable issues. A service date does not establish that right.

The court may prescribe the time

Rule 1.430(c) expressly preserves the court-ordered procedure. Read the actual order before using the default ten-day service arithmetic. Filing a request for relief is not an order.

Waiver and relief require the actual jury-demand record

Under Rule 1.430(e), failure to file the required demand waives jury trial. After waiver, the court may not grant jury trial without the parties’ consent, but may order a jury trial on its own motion. A demand cannot be withdrawn without the parties’ consent. A late filing or an extension request does not itself establish relief from waiver.

• 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.

• Read the actual prior demand and determine whether it specifies only some issues.
• Identify other or all issues actually triable by jury and the party making the additional demand.
• Obtain actual service of the partial demand and every order setting a different time.
• Rule 1.430(c) treats an unspecified demand as one for all issues triable by jury. Establish the actual demand’s scope rather than assuming every demand opens a new ten-day additional-issues opportunity.
• Rule 1.430(a) preserves the constitutional or statutory jury right, and paragraph (c) limits the additional demand to triable issues. A service date does not establish that right.
• Rule 1.430(c) expressly preserves the court-ordered procedure. Read the actual order before using the default ten-day service arithmetic. Filing a request for relief is not an order.
• Under Rule 1.430(e), failure to file the required demand waives jury trial. After waiver, the court may not grant jury trial without the parties’ consent, but may order a jury trial on its own motion. A demand cannot be withdrawn without the parties’ consent. A late filing or an extension request does not itself establish relief from waiver.
• File and serve the actual additional jury demand. Identify the issues requested and preserve the partial demand, its actual service, any order, and the additional demand’s separate filing and service receipts. 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. Rule 1.080(a) applies Rule 2.516 to pleadings after the initial pleading and other prescribed documents. Establish each required recipient and service method. Email service is complete when sent. Portal service is complete on filing for listed recipients, subject to promptly serving a recipient known not to have received the document. Permitted mail service is complete on mailing and delivery 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. Original process, actual receipt and court-order filing are distinct events. The service-based calculator examples exclude mail-only service.