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23 verbatim requirements on deadlines.
Tenth Judicial Circuit — Polk 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. • 6. That 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 the following month and provided to the Chief Judge and the Trial Court Administrator. • 5. If the offender is arrested on the sending state’s warrant and the sending state does not retake the offender within thirty (30) calendar days, the offender must be released and not rearrested on that warrant. However, the offender shall be ordered by the presiding judge to leave the State of Florida and return to the sending state and the court of appropriate jurisdiction within thirty (30) calendar days. The Offender’s failure to leave the State of Florida as ordered by the Court will result in contempt of court and constitute a new violation of probation or parole for which a new warrant will be issued, and the offender shall be taken into custody and the sending state re-notified. • 3. Transport requests must be submitted no later than 2:00 p.m. on the business day immediately preceding the court date. The system will generate a rejection email to the requestor submitting an untimely request. • The Final Judgment shall direct that the foreclosure sale take place not less than twenty (20) days or more than thirty-five (35) days after the date of the Final Judgment, unless the plaintiff consents or the Court sets some other time. See §45.031, Fla. Stat. • (2) If no objections to the sale are filed within ten (10) days after filing the Certificate of Sale, the Clerk shall file a Certificate of Title and serve a copy of it on each party, unless the property is redeemed by the defendant Mortgagor or unless an objection is filed. If any objection is filed, the Certificate of Title will not be issued until such time as an order of Court is entered on the objection. See §45.031(5) and §45.031(7)(c), Fla. Stat. • H. Five per cent (5%) of the final bid will be deducted from the successful bidder's advance deposit and applied toward the sale price. If a bidder is unsuccessful, the deposit may be refunded by the Clerk without the necessity of a court order. Refunds will be made within two (2) to five (5) business days after the sale. • Sworn to (or affirmed) and subscribed before me under oath this ___ day of __________________ • 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 Polk 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 Polk County Clerk of Court otherwise deems appropriate. • 2. For all cases wherein the Polk 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 closure similar to • The Court, having been apprised by the Polk 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 Polk County Clerk of Courts is DIRECTED to close the case pursuant to Plaintiff/Landlord’s Consent to Case Closure after 90 Days of Inactivity. • Plaintiff/Landlord does hereby consent to the dismissal and closure of this case file upon 90 days of inactivity. • 3. Where an Income Deduction Order is in effect and payments are being made on a regular basis, the account shall be considered delinquent 15 days after the regular income deduction order payment date. • 4. Sexual Violence. For injunctions for protections against sexual violence, the petitioner will be given paragraph 1 of section III of the sexual violence petition upon which the petitioner may describe what the respondent did to the petitioner, including where and when it happened, indicate whether the sexual violence was reported to law enforcement (and, if so, the incident report number and the criminal case number if any), and indicate whether the respondent has been sentenced to prison and is within 90 days of being released. • C. Submitting Proposed Orders - Every proposed order or judgment shall be submitted by the attorney designated by the Court for signature within ten (10) working days after the decision, unless the order is an Order on Judicial Review in which case it shall be submitted by the attorney designated by the Court for signature within fifteen (15) working days after the decision. In the event the designated attorney fails to submit a proposed order or judgment within said ten (10) working days, the opposing attorney or unrepresented party may submit a proposed order or judgment within ten (10) working days after certifying that he/she has made a good faith effort to contact the designated attorney and has received no reason for the delay. • D. Objections to Proposed Orders - The judicial assistants will hold any proposed order or final judgment for five (5) working days after receiving it to allow opposing counsel or unrepresented party time to file any objections to it. If the judicial assistant receives no objection within five (5) working days, the order or final judgment shall be entered if approved by the Court. Objections made by telephone must be followed up by a written explanation to the Court and opposing counsel or unrepresented party within five (5) working days of the telephone objection. Opposing counsel should notify the judicial assistant when there are no objections so the order can be distributed before the five (5) working days period. Upon receipt of any written objection, the judicial assistant shall present the matter to the judge for resolution. • 3. CONFLICTS: Within ten (10) days of this Order, or at the Pretrial Conference, counsel shall notify the Court if inadequate time has been allowed for trial, if a scheduling conflict exists, or if discovery cannot be completed. • 7. CONSULTATION: At least ten (10) days before Pretrial Conference, DCF counsel shall conduct a consultation, by telephone or in person, with all opposing counsel in order to: • 8. MUTUAL STIPULATION AND PROPOSED PRETRIAL ORDER: At least three (3) working days before Pretrial Conference, a Stipulation (in one document) shall be submitted directly to the Court’s Chambers either by U.S. mail or by hand delivery, not by facsimile. DCF counsel shall have the responsibility for drafting the Stipulation which shall contain a statement of: • Administrator responsible for jury management by 2:00 p.m. the Friday (or last working day) of the week before the panel is needed. The felony trial coordinator will perform this duty for all felony judges and their relief. No panels will normally be available unless requested by the judge’s office or felony trial coordinator, depending on who is responsible, by the Friday prior to the jury selection date. • 11. The courtroom clerk will give jurors who are seated on a trial a written notice with instructions on when to return for trial and directions for calling the code-a-phone the night before trial. • D. A person who was summoned and who reported as a prospective juror in any court in that person’s county of residence within one (1) year before the first day for which the person is being considered for jury service. Such a person is exempt from jury service for one (1) year from the last day of service.
6. That 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 the following month and provided to the Chief Judge and the Trial Court Administrator.
Reviewer note: Source sha256: . Corpus categories: DEADLINE/NOTICE. Published during the 2026-07-24 completeness pass.
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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.