County Civil Judges have jurisdiction over Contract and Indebtedness cases up to $50,000, Landlord Tenant/Eviction cases, Small Claims and debt collection cases (amounts up to $8,000), Auto negligence, Condominium and Personal Injury Protection cases $8,001 to $50,000.
Miami-Dade County has updated their process and no longer requires that pro se litigants seeking to file name change petitions must either be represented by an attorney or must use the Miami-Dade County Self-Help Center. You can file your name change petition pro se using the forms you completed on this site.
County Court Jurisdictional Changes County court jurisdictional thresholds increase to $30,000 on January 1, 2020, and to $50,000 on January 1, 2023. Filers will be required to include a civil cover sheet specifying the dollar amount in dispute in cases exceeding $8,000 in value.
Definition: Jurisdictional limits refer to the boundaries or limits set by the law or constitution that determine the extent of a court's authority to make decisions. This means that a court can only make decisions within a certain geographic area or within the limits set by the law.
Contact Clerk of the Court and Comptroller For general information, call 305-275-1155 for the Interactive Voice Response System.
The County Civil Division has jurisdiction over civil cases up to $50,000 and Small Claims cases with amounts up to $8,000.
Case management from inception involves active policing of the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure deadlines, looking for necessary defaults, policing discovery and motions which were filed and not set, making sure that delays on either side of the case do not occur, and as soon as a case was ready for resolution, it is ...
Local limits of jurisdiction of each of several Subordinate Judges. — Provided that, where more than one Subordinate Judge is appointed to any district, the District Judge may assign to each such Subordinate Judge the local limits of his particular jurisdiction within such district.
Contact Clerk of the Court and Comptroller For general information, call 305-275-1155 for the Interactive Voice Response System.
To file a formal consumer complaint, complete the below affidavit and save a copy of your completed affidavit for your records. You can print, sign, date and submit the affidavit by email (send as a pdf attachment to consumer@miamidade), fax to 786-469-2303 or mail to the address at the top of the affidavit.