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Verified judges, local rules, standing orders, and controlling division-assignment orders for Broward County — every entry cites its official source with a last-verified date.
Official site: https://www.17th.flcourts.org
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published rules
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counties
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assignment orders
Titles shown as circuit judges, county judges, and quasi-judicial officers per the official directory.
Approves the National Highway Safety Council Defensive Driving course as a school to which traffic courts may require attendance (Fla. R. Traf. Ct. 6.110(a)).
Designates the D.W.I. Counterattack School (Broward County Commission on Alcoholism) as an approved school for court-ordered attendance (Fla. R. Traf. Ct. 6.110(a)).
Creates the five Circuit Court divisions — General Civil, Criminal, Probate, Juvenile, Family — and defines the Family Division's one-family jurisdiction (dissolution, custody/support, domestic violence and related matters).
Before setting any motion for hearing, counsel must attempt direct-communication resolution and certify a good-faith attempt to resolve or narrow the issues. Cited by nearly every Broward division-procedures document; approved by the Florida Supreme Court Jan. 23, 2018.
Submitting party must furnish sufficient copies with stamped addressed envelopes; proposed orders must go to opposing counsel BEFORE submission to the court and must be titled to conform with the motion.
Establishes a Traffic Violations Bureau within the Clerk of the County Court under Fla. R. Traf. Ct. 6.100(a) (Burnstein, C.J., Nov. 1, 1988).
Where a motion to compel alleges complete failure to respond to discovery with no extension requested, a county judge may enter an EX PARTE order compelling compliance within 10 days — the source of the "ten (10) days… failing which sanctions may be imposed" language quoted across Broward county-civil division procedures.
6 verbatim requirements from AO 2026-28-Crim Amendment 1 (First Appearance Division; ordered 2026-07-29, effective immediately).
6 verbatim requirements from AO 2025-50-Crim (Uniform Bond Schedule; Exhibit A bond table updated July 2026; supersedes AO 2025-27-Crim).
Judge Alberto Ribas, Jr. — Division JO/32/JJ Guidelines (17th Circuit, Broward)
Broward's circuit-wide AI disclosure/certification mandate (AO 2026-03-GEN, Amendment 2, entered May 19, 2026) was VACATED in its entirety by AO 2026-19-Gen effective June 15, 2026 at 12:01 a.m. — the same moment statewide preemption (AOSC26-12 / Rule 2.515(d)(2)) took effect. Corrected 2026-07-21 from a prior erroneous "unrescinded holdout" status after re-fetching the primary source.
Broward AO 2026-10-UFC — Distribution of Unified Family Court Cases to Judges and General Magistrates