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Office of State Attorney 15th Judicial Circuit – Serving Palm Beach County Florida.
County Civil Court has jurisdiction over claims up to and including $50,000. A County Civil case is any civil matter that falls within the jurisdiction of County Court. Detail may be found in Chapter 34, Florida Statutes.
The adjusted jurisdictional limit must be rounded to the nearest $5,000. However, the jurisdictional limit may not be lower than $50,000.
“Local jurisdiction” means the territory comprising Johor, Kedah, Kelantan, Malacca, Negri Sembilan, Pahang, Penang, Perak, Perlis, Selangor, Terenganu and the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur; in the case of the High Court in Sabah and Sarawak, the territory covers Sabah, Sarawak and the Federal Territory of Labuan.
You may also file a complaint by calling our office at 561-233-5500 Monday – Friday AM to PM, excluding County recognized holidays. An on-call Code Enforcement Officer is also available at 561-233-5523 for general questions Monday – Friday AM to PM, excluding County recognized holidays.
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.
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.
You will be served with a summons and complaint, after which you will have only 20 days to take action to contest the foreclosure. Florida's 20-day rule allows you a brief period of time in which you can hire a Jacksonville foreclosure defense attorney to prepare your case and get ready to contest the case in court.
This is done by publishing the legal documents in a newspaper or other publication that is widely circulated. For example, if someone is trying to sue a person who has disappeared without leaving a forwarding address, they may use service by publication to give them notice of the lawsuit.
If after trial the court enters a judgment against the tenant, the Clerk of the County Court will issue a "Writ of Possession" to be served by the sheriff notifying the tenant that the tenant will be evicted in 24 hours.
