What follows service of a Florida notice of lack of prosecution?

Preserve the served notice and establish actual service on the parties.

Inspect the preceding ten months and all record activity during the following sixty days.

Check stay issuance or approval before expiration and preserve any actual dismissal-hearing notice.

1. Preserve the served notice and establish actual service on the parties.
2. Rule 1.090(a) incorporates Rule 2.514 for an established day period. The sixty-day component must still be read with the actual notice, complete record and stay conditions. A mail-only service adjustment, local closure or actual order requires separate review. This guide does not publish an isolated expiration as a dismissal date.
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 sixty-day component depends on a qualifying notice, the preceding ten months, subsequent record activity and timely stay status. Judicial dismissal, reasonable notice and written good cause remain separate. A single service input cannot establish the complete disposition.

Record, notice, stay and hearing conditions all matter

Rule 1.420(e) requires no activity on the face of the record during the ten months immediately before notice service and none during the sixty days immediately after service. A stay issued or approved before the sixty-day period expires prevents that dismissal branch. The court acts after reasonable notice and considers timely written good cause. Mere inaction for less than one year is insufficient cause for dismissal.

Actual notice service starts the post-notice component

Rule 1.420(e) uses the sixty days immediately following service of the notice. Notice drafting, filing alone or an informal warning does not establish that service. Preserve the applicable recipients and service method under Rule 1.080(a).

Record activity and stays are separate conditions

The stated branch requires no activity on the face of the record in the post-notice interval and no stay issued or approved before expiration. Inspect actual filings, court orders and stay dispositions. The calculator cannot decide their legal character.

A later hearing retains written good cause

A party may show good cause in writing at least five days before the actual hearing on the motion. Timely submission does not establish sufficient cause or a granted disposition.

• 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.

• Preserve the served notice and establish actual service on the parties.
• Inspect the preceding ten months and all record activity during the following sixty days.
• Check stay issuance or approval before expiration and preserve any actual dismissal-hearing notice.
• Rule 1.420(e) requires no activity on the face of the record during the ten months immediately before notice service and none during the sixty days immediately after service. A stay issued or approved before the sixty-day period expires prevents that dismissal branch. The court acts after reasonable notice and considers timely written good cause. Mere inaction for less than one year is insufficient cause for dismissal.
• Rule 1.420(e) uses the sixty days immediately following service of the notice. Notice drafting, filing alone or an informal warning does not establish that service. Preserve the applicable recipients and service method under Rule 1.080(a).
• The stated branch requires no activity on the face of the record in the post-notice interval and no stay issued or approved before expiration. Inspect actual filings, court orders and stay dispositions. The calculator cannot decide their legal character.
• A party may show good cause in writing at least five days before the actual hearing on the motion. Timely submission does not establish sufficient cause or a granted disposition.
• Preserve filed record activity and successful filing evidence, actual notice service and any issued or approved stay. If a dismissal motion is heard, address the separate written-good-cause requirement using the actual noticed hearing. This guide does not decide whether a particular act qualifies as record activity or whether cause is sufficient.