When must a covered Florida ordinary intentional-tort action be commenced?

Identify the actual intentional tort rather than using intent as the only classification.

Check the separately listed actions and the express subsection references.

Establish legal accrual and exclude a separately governed abuse, under-sixteen or intentional-death category.

1. Identify the actual intentional tort rather than using intent as the only classification.
2. Establish the stated statutory category and its actual trigger first. Add the stated number of calendar years to its corresponding month and day. Apply the governing final-day treatment. Do not replace the legally established trigger with a later bill, demand, discovery or denial unless its governing provision supplies that event.
3. Preserve each trigger, legally available tolling interval, applicable clerk calendar and actual filing receipt.
4. Complete the required act with the proper court or recipient.

Use the corresponding calendar-year anniversary of the independently established event. Intermediate weekends, holidays and leap-year days do not convert a year into 365 working or calendar days. Rule 2.514(a)(1)(C),(5),(6) moves an ineligible final day to the next eligible day. Check the observed statutory holidays, additional clerk holidays and chief-justice directions. This ordinary limitation calculation does not extend repose or decide any tolling interval.

Fictitious example

Fictitious facts. Use the ordinary paragraph (3)(n) category only after checking the specific tort and statutory exceptions. Establish its actual legal accrual separately. The legally established event is 2023-08-02. No tolling, different statutory category, additional clerk holiday or changed court direction 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.

Expressly listed categories can change the period

Paragraph (3)(n) excepts subsections (5), (6) and (8). Libel or slander has its own two-year paragraph, while abuse-based intentional torts compare the endpoints stated in subsection (8). Intent alone does not select four years.

Specified under-sixteen and intentional-death acts have separate treatment

Subsection (10) permits its specified under-sixteen actions at any time, except those already barred on or before July 1, 2010. Subsection (11) separately addresses the stated intentional-death action against a natural person. Establish the actual statutory facts before deciding either exception applies.

Tolling must be independently established

Section 95.051 lists the permitted grounds and referenced laws. Absence, false name or concealment does not toll if sufficient jurisdictional service remains available. Minority and incapacity have stated conditions. This preset does not reconstruct tolling from negotiation, demand correspondence or a disputed factual interval.

A foreign-barred cause requires a borrowing review

Section 95.10 bars maintaining a cause that arose elsewhere when that jurisdiction already bars it through lapse of time. Preserve the actual place of accrual and governing law. A Florida calendar result does not revive that cause.

• This calculation does not decide the legal claim category, accrual, due diligence, tolling, an expired claim or valid commencement.
• Check the governing historical edition, actual motions, orders, clerk holidays and filing receipts.

• Identify the actual intentional tort rather than using intent as the only classification.
• Check the separately listed actions and the express subsection references.
• Establish legal accrual and exclude a separately governed abuse, under-sixteen or intentional-death category.
• Paragraph (3)(n) excepts subsections (5), (6) and (8). Libel or slander has its own two-year paragraph, while abuse-based intentional torts compare the endpoints stated in subsection (8). Intent alone does not select four years.
• Subsection (10) permits its specified under-sixteen actions at any time, except those already barred on or before July 1, 2010. Subsection (11) separately addresses the stated intentional-death action against a natural person. Establish the actual statutory facts before deciding either exception applies.
• Section 95.051 lists the permitted grounds and referenced laws. Absence, false name or concealment does not toll if sufficient jurisdictional service remains available. Minority and incapacity have stated conditions. This preset does not reconstruct tolling from negotiation, demand correspondence or a disputed factual interval.
• Section 95.10 bars maintaining a cause that arose elsewhere when that jurisdiction already bars it through lapse of time. Preserve the actual place of accrual and governing law. A Florida calendar result does not revive that cause.
• Rule 1.050 requires commencing the civil action by filing the complaint or petition. Rule 2.525 governs filing and the successful timestamp. Rule 2.514(a)(4) ordinarily ends the last day at 11:59:59 p.m. Eastern Time for electronic filing, or at scheduled clerk closing for paper filing. Preserve the receipt and complete separately required service. A draft, negotiation or sent complaint does not itself prove successful filing.