When must a Florida party reject a nonbinding arbitration decision and request trial?

Identify the nonbinding procedure and actual written decision served on this party.

Prepare one document containing both notice of rejection and request for trial.

Complete timely filing and prescribed service, preserving both records.

1. Identify the nonbinding procedure and actual written decision served on this party.
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. The nonbinding written decision is actually served electronically on this party. The established event is August 2, 2027. No mail-only addition, further clerk closure or changed court period 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.

Both rejection and a trial request belong in one filed document

Rule 1.820(h) requires the notice of rejection and request for trial in the same document. No other action or inaction constitutes rejection. Objecting orally, exchanging an email, or filing a document without the trial request does not satisfy the specified act. Preserve successful filing and required service separately.

Decision service differs from hearing completion

Rule 1.820(g)(3) requires written decision notification within ten days of final adjournment, with the sealed decision and original transcripts filed at notification. The ordinary party rejection period instead uses service of the written decision under paragraph (h). Neither the first hearing nor final adjournment substitutes for that service.

Third-party relief requires its actual branch

When any party files a combined rejection and trial request, a party with a third-party claim at issue during arbitration may file its own combined document within ten days after service of the first one. Ordinary party status alone does not establish this additional branch.

Missing rejection requires judicial implementation

When no timely rejection and trial request is made within the stated ordinary period, paragraph (h) refers the decision to the presiding judge for the required orders and judgments. This calculator does not create an automatic judgment or determine relief from a missed act.

• This page does not establish a valid referral, actual court setting, sufficient good cause, settlement authority or court enforcement.
• Check the operative edition, actual notice, record activity, motions, interruptions, orders and additional closures.

• Identify the nonbinding procedure and actual written decision served on this party.
• Prepare one document containing both notice of rejection and request for trial.
• Complete timely filing and prescribed service, preserving both records.
• Rule 1.820(h) requires the notice of rejection and request for trial in the same document. No other action or inaction constitutes rejection. Objecting orally, exchanging an email, or filing a document without the trial request does not satisfy the specified act. Preserve successful filing and required service separately.
• Rule 1.820(g)(3) requires written decision notification within ten days of final adjournment, with the sealed decision and original transcripts filed at notification. The ordinary party rejection period instead uses service of the written decision under paragraph (h). Neither the first hearing nor final adjournment substitutes for that service.
• When any party files a combined rejection and trial request, a party with a third-party claim at issue during arbitration may file its own combined document within ten days after service of the first one. Ordinary party status alone does not establish this additional branch.
• When no timely rejection and trial request is made within the stated ordinary period, paragraph (h) refers the decision to the presiding judge for the required orders and judgments. This calculator does not create an automatic judgment or determine relief from a missed act.
• 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 1.820(h) requires both rejection and a trial request in the same filed document.