Supreme Court of Florida
In Re: Amendments to the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure, Florida Small Claims Rules, and Florida Rules of…
November 14, 2019
Summary
The court adopted most proposed amendments to the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure and Florida Small Claims Rules, including amendments implementing a $30,000 county-court jurisdictional limit, increasing the small-claims limit to $8,000, and revising data-collection forms. The amendments take effect January 1, 2020, and the court directed that proposed amendments concerning district-court appellate jurisdiction be returned to the committee for further explanation. Interested persons were given seventy-five days to submit comments because the amendments had not been published for comment before adoption.