When must a Florida party serve a motion to alter or amend judgment?

Identify the actual judgment and its docketed filing date.

Classify the requested act as Rule 1.530(g) alteration or amendment.

Preserve the filing record and required motion-service recipients.

1. Identify the actual judgment and its docketed filing date.
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 identified judgment is actually filed. This is a Rule 1.530(g) motion. The established event occurs August 2, 2027. No mail-only addition, further clerk closure, different order or unestablished branch 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.

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.

Preserved Rule 1.540 remedies have their own timing

Rule 1.530(g) expressly does not affect Rule 1.540(b) remedies. All Rule 1.540(b) grounds require reasonable time, and grounds (1), (2) and (3) also have the one-year ceiling. A missed fifteen-day motion does not establish entitlement to later relief.

Clerical correction differs from substantive alteration

Rule 1.540(a) permits correction of clerical mistakes or oversight with prescribed notice and appellate-stage conditions. It does not make every desired substantive alteration a clerical correction.

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.

• 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.

• Identify the actual judgment and its docketed filing date.
• Classify the requested act as Rule 1.530(g) alteration or amendment.
• Preserve the filing record and required motion-service recipients.
• 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(g) expressly does not affect Rule 1.540(b) remedies. All Rule 1.540(b) grounds require reasonable time, and grounds (1), (2) and (3) also have the one-year ceiling. A missed fifteen-day motion does not establish entitlement to later relief.
• Rule 1.540(a) permits correction of clerical mistakes or oversight with prescribed notice and appellate-stage conditions. It does not make every desired substantive alteration a clerical correction.
• 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 within the applicable period and preserve proof of timely service. Complete court filing under the applicable rules. A calculation does not identify valid amendment grounds, establish a successful ruling or decide whether a later appeal period is suspended.