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Denise Martinez-Scanziani
Circuit Judge · Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court
High confidence· verified August 2, 2026
Circuit Judge · Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court
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971 verified requirements and 6 rule deadlines govern practice before Judge Denise Martinez-Scanziani across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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Unified Family Court — D/J/FC 203
Courtroom MDCC 14356
Ivonne Acosta
Contact details published by the court for scheduling and chambers procedure questions — always confirm preferences with the JA before a hearing.
Verified 2026-08-03: the 11th's own Judicial Directory detail view for this judge publishes contact and section facts but no biography prose. A court fact, not a harvest gap.
Captured verbatim from the court's own published pages and orders during circuit verification. Chambers practices change without notice — confirm anything time-critical with the judicial assistant. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Appeals from this courtroom go to the Third District Court of Appeal (Miami).
● LiveThat court's published bench (10): Alexander S. Bokor, Bronwyn C. Miller, Edwin A. Scales, III, Fleur J. Lobree, Ivan F. Fernandez, Kansas R. Gooden, Kevin Emas, Monica Gordo, Norma S. Lindsey, Thomas Logue
Jurisdiction per § 35.043, Fla. Stat. (six-district alignment eff. Jan. 1, 2023).
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4 verified rules specific to this judge's division, grouped by requirement category. 971 total requirements apply in this courtroom across all layers — the Full Premium Report assembles the complete stack.
No judge-level deadline on record runs shorter than a statewide deadline with the same trigger. The sentinel compares quoted timing across every published rule scoped to this judge on each visit — a clean result today is re-earned tomorrow.
No judge-scoped deadlines on this tab. Deadlines are extracted only when the source rule text states them — we never infer or calculate dates the rule does not explicitly contain. 6 rule deadlines apply in this courtroom across all layers — assembled with citations in the Full Premium Report.
Timing shown here is quoted from the rule text. Compute your actual date against the court's calendar and the rule itself — not legal advice.
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How Florida’s appellate courts disposed of the 15 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (January 12, 2022–March 11, 2026) that name this judge as the lower-tribunal judge — the courts’ own disposition labels, counted verbatim. This is a census of the appellate record we hold, not a complete case history, an affirmance rate, or a performance rating.
Florida appellate and Supreme Court opinions naming this judge as the lower-tribunal judge, taken verbatim from each court’s official slip opinion (source-hashed). Descriptive record, not a rating.
A.B., the Father v. Department of Children and Families, et al.
Third District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Non-Dispositive
last checked September 4, 2026
last checked September 3, 2026
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Unified Family Court — D/J/FC 203current
date not recorded — present · Courtroom MDCC 14356
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M.S., the Father v. Department of Children and Families, et al.
Third District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
A.B., the Father v. Department of Children and Families, et al.
Third District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
M.D.-P, THE MOTHER, VS DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, et al.,
Third District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
D.D., the Mother v. Department of Children and Families, et al.
Third District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
M.F.J., THE MOTHER, VS DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, et al.,
Third District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
P.N., the Father v. Department of Children and Families, et al.
Third District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Citation
J.R., THE FATHER, VS DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, et al.,
Third District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Citation
A.B., the Father v. Department of Children and Families, et al.
Third District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
A.S.R., the Mother v. Department of Children and Families, et al.
Third District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
PATRICIA MARQUEZ SOSA, etc., VS HECTOR GABRIEL BALZAGA PENA,
Third District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
S.A., THE MOTHER, vs DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, et al.,
Third District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
G.C., THE MOTHER, vs DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, et al.,
Third District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
H.H.T., THE FATHER, vs DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, et al.,
Third District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
J.D., THE FATHER, vs DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, et al.,
Third District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
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Monitor: content changed at 11th Cir. Judicial Directory (relaunched tree; per-section Zoom on Judge-Details pages). Review before republishing dependent rules.
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