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2 verbatim requirements on continuances in CALEB S. JOHNSTON's division.
Seventeenth Judicial Circuit (Broward County) — Division 69 only. Divisional procedures change without notice; the division page controls. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
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Unlock free →Continuances: All requests for a continuance must be in writing and sent to divgm69@17th.flcourts.org no later than the day before the scheduled hearing. If you do not receive confirmation that the hearing is continued, you should appear at the hearing as scheduled.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: f2efeb0024ce1439548c3a85ce6ed29eb304d79add285aa8bed06f7808aa644c. Corpus topic: CONTINUANCES. Published during the completeness pass — the audit found 2,753 verbatim requirements against 123 published rules.
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.