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Fla. Stat. § 47.122 (2025)
Change of venue; convenience of parties or witnesses or in the interest of justice.
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47.122 Change of venue; convenience of parties or witnesses or in the interest of justice.—For the convenience of the parties or witnesses or in the interest of justice, any court of record may transfer any civil action to any other court of record in which it might have been brought.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 243
cases (29 in the last 5 years), 1969–2025 · leading case: Hu v. Crockett, 426 So. 2d 1275 (Fla. 1st DCA 1983).
Hu v. Crockett, 426 So. 2d 1275 (Fla. 1st DCA 1983). “In this interlocutory appeal, appellant, plaintiff below, asks us to determine that the lower court abused its discretion in ordering that, pursuant to Section 47.122, Florida Statutes (1981), [1] venue be changed in a wrongful death action from Escambia to Walton County.”
Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. v. Young, 690 So. 2d 1377 (Fla. 1st DCA 1997). “, appeal an order denying their motion for change of venue from Duval County to Putnam County pursuant to section 47.122, Florida Statutes (1995). [1] Because appellants have failed to meet their burden of showing that the trial court abused its discretion in refusing to…”
Gov't Employees Ins. Co. v. Burns, 672 So. 2d 834 (Fla. 3d DCA 1996). “" § 47.122, Fla.Stat. (1993). We construed the language in Rule 1.”
Fla. Health Sciences Ctr. v. Elsenheimer, 952 So. 2d 575 (Fla. 2d DCA 2007). “In these consolidated appeals, the Hospital challenges a nonfinal order denying its motion to transfer venue pursuant to section 47.122, Florida Statutes (2005), and two nonfinal orders granting class certification.”
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. v. Mooney, 147 So. 3d 42 (Fla. 3d DCA 2014). “See § 47.122 (using the word “or” to refer to the three factors in the disjunctive).”
Marques v. Garcia, 245 So. 3d 900 (Fla. 3d DCA 2018). “1 Appellants, except Naples HMA, filed motions to transfer venue to Collier County pursuant to section 47.122, Florida Statutes (2016) (“the motions”).”
McDaniel Reserve Realty Holdings, LLC v. B.S.E. Consultants, Inc., 39 So. 3d 504 (Fla. 4th DCA 2010). “See § 47.122, Fla. Stat. Palm Beach County was a proper venue for these multiple causes of action.”
Ford Motor Co. v. James, 33 So. 3d 91 (Fla. 4th DCA 2010). “§ 47.122, Fla. Stat. (2007). Thus, there are three statutory factors a court considers in determining whether to grant a motion pursuant to section 47.”
Graham v. Graham, 648 So. 2d 814 (Fla. 4th DCA 1995). “Section 47.122, Florida Statutes (1993), entitled "Change of venue; convenience of parties or witnesses or in the interest of justice," provides: For the convenience of the parties or witnesses or the interest of justice, any court of record may transfer any civil action to any…”
Mann v. Yeatts, 111 So. 3d 934 (Fla. 5th DCA 2013). “Although venue in Putnam County was not improper, pursuant to section 47.122, Florida Statutes, the trial court had the discretion to transfer the action to Hillsborough County in the interest of justice.”
Brown v. Nagelhout, 84 So. 3d 304 (Fla. 2012). “Finally, we decline to address the defendants’ argument on appeal that the change of venue should have been affirmed based on section 47.122, Florida Statutes (2009), which provides that “[f]or the convenience of the parties or witnesses or in the interest of justice, any court…”
Mann v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., 300 So. 2d 666 (Fla. 1974). “163, Florida Statutes, holding that Section 47.122, Florida Statutes, being a later expression of legislative will, controls.”
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