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When must a Florida party serve a new trial or rehearing motion?

Rule 1.530(b) requires service of a new trial or rehearing motion no later than fifteen days after return of the verdict in a jury action or filing of the judgment in a nonjury action. The actual branch controls. Rule 1.530(a) requires rehearing to preserve a challenge to omitted required findings in the final judgment.

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Period: Fifteen calendar days after the branch’s actual event
Trigger: Actual jury verdict return or actual judgment filing in the established nonjury branch
Rule: Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.530(a),(b)

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Official civil compilation published October 1, 2026 and general practice compilation published July 1, 2026

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Actual jury verdict return or actual judgment filing in the established nonjury branch

Classify the jury or nonjury action and preserve the verdict-return or judgment-filing date. Use only the timely original motion procedure. Do not substitute judgment service or a later appeal date.

Entry rules and timing exceptions

15 days from Return of the verdict in a jury action, or the date of filing of the judgment in a non-jury action.

Fla. R. Civ. P. 1.530(b)Binding

Rule notes

Increased from 10 to 15 days by the 2013 amendment. A timely and authorized motion tolls rendition for appeal purposes under Fla. R. App. P. 9.020(h)(1)(A)-(B). Fla. R. Civ. P. 1.530(a) requires a rehearing motion to preserve a challenge to the trial court’s failure to make required findings of fact in the final judgment.

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Which actual event starts this Florida civil period?

Classify the jury or nonjury procedure before selecting the event.

Preserve the actual returned verdict for a jury action or filed judgment for a nonjury action.

Identify the specific grounds and whether required findings need a rehearing challenge.

Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.530(a),(b)

How does Florida count this civil period?

Classify the jury or nonjury procedure before selecting the event.
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.
Check the observed statutory holidays, actual clerk calendar and chief-justice directions.
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.

Florida Rule of General Practice and Judicial Administration 2.514(a)

What do the independently derived facts show?

Fictitious example

Fictitious facts. In the established nonjury branch, the judgment is actually filed. The party seeks timely rehearing. The established event occurs August 2, 2027. No mail-only addition, further clerk closure, different order or unestablished branch applies.

Example counting steps
Step	What is counted	Date
Established event	Actual jury verdict return or actual judgment filing in the established nonjury branch	August 2, 2027
Applicable period	Fifteen calendar days after the branch’s actual event	Tuesday, August 17, 2027

Example resultTuesday, August 17, 2027

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.

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Which Florida civil qualifications change the procedure?

The ordinary enlargement rule excludes these motions: Rule 1.090(b)(2) prohibits extending time for a new-trial motion, rehearing motion or motion to alter or amend a judgment. It also names Rule 1.540(b) relief, appeals, certiorari and directed-verdict motions. A pending extension request does not replace a timely prescribed act. Case-management extensions and trial continuances follow separate rules.
A timely motion can gain grounds only with court discretion before determination: Rule 1.530(b) allows amendment of a timely motion to state new grounds in the court’s discretion before the motion is determined. That provision does not make a late original motion timely.
Required findings and evidence sufficiency are distinct preservation questions: Rule 1.530(a) requires rehearing to preserve failure to make required findings of fact. Paragraph (e) separately permits a nonjury evidence-sufficiency challenge on appeal without the stated prior objection or motions. That separate rule does not erase the required-findings condition.
Nonjury rehearing can involve additional testimony and a new judgment: Rule 1.530(a) includes summary judgments within matters heard without a jury and permits the court to open the judgment, take additional testimony and enter a new judgment. A motion does not prove the court granted those acts.
Motion form and conferral require separate compliance: Rule 1.100(b) requires the prescribed written grounds and requested relief except the stated hearing or trial procedure. Rule 1.202 separately addresses conferral and its certificate. Summary judgment, injunctive relief and Rule 1.530 motions are expressly exempt from conferral. The rule also excludes an unrepresented movant or nonmovant. Those exemptions do not dispense with valid motion form, filing or service.

Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.530(a),(b)

This page does not establish grounds for relief, an actual court hearing, a bond amount, fee entitlement or appeal preservation.
Check the operative procedural edition, actual filing and service records, motions, court directions and additional closures.

What must be filed, served and preserved?

Classify the jury or nonjury procedure before selecting the event.
Preserve the actual returned verdict for a jury action or filed judgment for a nonjury action.
Identify the specific grounds and whether required findings need a rehearing challenge.
Rule 1.090(b)(2) prohibits extending time for a new-trial motion, rehearing motion or motion to alter or amend a judgment. It also names Rule 1.540(b) relief, appeals, certiorari and directed-verdict motions. A pending extension request does not replace a timely prescribed act. Case-management extensions and trial continuances follow separate rules.
Rule 1.530(b) allows amendment of a timely motion to state new grounds in the court’s discretion before the motion is determined. That provision does not make a late original motion timely.
Rule 1.530(a) requires rehearing to preserve failure to make required findings of fact. Paragraph (e) separately permits a nonjury evidence-sufficiency challenge on appeal without the stated prior objection or motions. That separate rule does not erase the required-findings condition.
Rule 1.530(a) includes summary judgments within matters heard without a jury and permits the court to open the judgment, take additional testimony and enter a new judgment. A motion does not prove the court granted those acts.
Rule 1.100(b) requires the prescribed written grounds and requested relief except the stated hearing or trial procedure. Rule 1.202 separately addresses conferral and its certificate. Summary judgment, injunctive relief and Rule 1.530 motions are expressly exempt from conferral. The rule also excludes an unrepresented movant or nonmovant. Those exemptions do not dispense with valid motion form, filing or service.
Serve the actual motion on all required recipients within the applicable period and complete prescribed filing separately. Preserve the verdict or filed judgment, full grounds and actual service records. If relying on affidavits for a new trial, Rule 1.530(c) requires serving them with the motion. The opposing affidavit procedure has its own ten-day clock.

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