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1 verbatim requirement on continuances.
Eighth Judicial Circuit — Continuance 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. • Judges shall apply a firm continuance policy allowing continuances only for good cause shown.
Judges shall apply a firm continuance policy allowing continuances only for good cause shown.
Reviewer note: Source sha256: d98a958cd8ed7e324482d6b8bdfe03c25efa2cd38f58649a122e570a003f00ea. Corpus categories: Continuance. Operative status as recorded: CURRENT_DIRECTORY_CURRENT_VERSION_COMPANION. 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.