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7 verbatim requirements on deadlines.
Tenth Judicial Circuit — Highlands only. Practices change without notice; the court's own published text controls. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from the published source, captured 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. • 7. A monthly Pretrial Release Activities Report detailing the activities of each month will be completed by the Pretrial Release Program staff no later than the fifteenth day of each following month and will be provided to the Chief Judge, the Trial Court Administrator, Highlands County Administrative Judge, and the assigned Highlands County Judge. • WHEREAS, eviction cases, unlike other County Civil cases, involve only the issue of possession, which is often resolved within thirty (30) days of the eviction action being filed; and • 1. The Highlands County Clerk of Courts shall include a Consent to Case Closure after 90 Days of Inactivity form (attached and incorporated herein as Attachment A) in the eviction forms package and as the Highlands County Clerk of Court otherwise deems appropriate. • 2. For all cases wherein the Highlands County Clerk of Courts receives from Plaintiff/Landlord a Consent to Case Closure after 90 Days of Inactivity form, the clerk or the Office of the Court Administrator shall notify the presiding judge of said cases whereupon said presiding judge shall consider the entry of an order of dismissal/case • Plaintiff/Landlord does hereby consent to the dismissal and closure of this case file upon 90 days of inactivity. • The Court, having been apprised by the Highlands County Clerk of Courts or the Office of the Court Administrator that there has been no activity in the above-styled case for 90 days and that Plaintiff/Landlord has entered a Consent to Case Closure after 90 Days of Inactivity, hereby • ORDERS and ADJUDGES that the above-styled action is DISMISSED and the Highlands County Clerk of Courts is DIRECTED to close the case pursuant to Plaintiff/Landlord’s Consent to Case Closure after 90 Days of Inactivity.
7. A monthly Pretrial Release Activities Report detailing the activities of each month will be completed by the Pretrial Release Program staff no later than the fifteenth day of each following month and will be provided to the Chief Judge, the Trial Court Administrator, Highlands County Administrative Judge, and the assigned Highlands County Judge.
Reviewer note: Source sha256: . Corpus categories: DEADLINE/NOTICE. Published during the 2026-07-24 completeness pass.
Florida follows the federal summary-judgment standard. The motion must be served at least 40 days before the hearing; the nonmovant's response is due no later than 20 days before the hearing.
How Florida procedural deadlines are computed: exclude the trigger day; count every day for periods of 7 days or more; for periods under 7 days, skip intermediate weekends and legal holidays; roll forward when the last day is a weekend or holiday.
Judge Siperstein requires every motion to be set within 5 days of filing and heard within 60 days, or it may be deemed abandoned.