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5 verbatim requirements on deadlines.
Fourteenth Judicial Circuit — General 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. • 120 days after the action is filed. See Fla. R. Civ. P. 1.070U) • Deadlines for extensions to serve process upon defendants will be at the discretion of the trial judge. Generally, parties should not expect an extension of longer than 180 days from the filing of the complaint to execute service. See Fla. R. Civ. P. l.070(j). • 18 months from the date of service of initial process on the last defendant or 120 days after commencement of the action as provided in Rule 1.050, whichever occurs first, to final disposition. • The filing shall be 120 days from the date of the service of the complaint. The hearing thereon shall occur before 180 days from the date of the service of the complaint. • The filing shall be 45 days before the Pre-Trial Conference. The hearing thereon shall occur before the Pre-Trial Conference
120 days after the action is filed. See Fla. R. Civ. P. 1.070U)
Reviewer note: Source sha256: eb76448baa03e435a43e706aa67156e984d7d5f93517e8fc8ed193e05b9ea474. Corpus categories: Service of Complaint, Service Under Extension, Anticipated Trial Date, Objections to Pleadings, Pretrial Motions. 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.