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Don Barbee
Circuit Judge · Fifth Judicial Circuit Court
High confidence· verified July 25, 2026
Circuit Judge · Fifth Judicial Circuit Court
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873 verified requirements and 6 rule deadlines govern practice before Judge Don Barbee across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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Circuit Judge — Hernando County
From Judge Don Barbee's own profile page on the circuit's county judiciary index, verified 2026-07-25.
Verified 2026-08-03: the 5th's own county judiciary pages render name-only rosters with 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 Fifth District Court of Appeal (Daytona Beach).
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Jurisdiction per § 35.043, Fla. Stat. (six-district alignment eff. Jan. 1, 2023).
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11 verified rules specific to this judge's division, grouped by requirement category. 873 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.
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How Florida’s appellate courts disposed of the 13 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (July 2, 2020–March 27, 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.
AMBER MERKEL vs ESTATE OF GEORGETTE T. BURRY, DEVITT SCOTT BURRY, DOVE ORTMANN, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE OF THE GEORGETTE BURRY, REVOCABLE TRUST AND AS PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ESTATE, ET AL.
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Hernando County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
last checked September 4, 2026
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Paperless chambers: no paper/mailed submissions absent prior approval; all hearing requests to dcbcivil@circuit5.org (phone requests get no response); responses + memoranda due 10 days from receipt of motion; court defers ruling 5 days when a reply is requested; 10-page memo cap; motions ordinarily decided on the papers (hearing request must accompany the motion with a time estimate); electronic evidence 2 business days ahead; proposed orders no more than 24 hours before or within 5 days after hearing; follow up after 45 days without a ruling.
Guardianship-docket standing order mirrors the civil order's core limits: 10-page legal-memorandum cap absent permission and electronic evidence at least 2 business days before hearings/trials.
Probate matters should be completed within 12 months of letters of administration (Fla. Prob. R. 5.400(c)); electronic evidence for all evidentiary hearings due at least one full business day ahead; petitions to admit a lost/destroyed will require a hearing.
GEOFFREY A. HUBER A/K/A GEOFF HUBER AND DONNA F. HUBER A/K/A DONNA HUBER vs DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, AS TRUSTEE FOR RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC., MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-QS9, ET AL
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Hernando County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
KRISTA COMER vs EVAN PURDY
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Hernando County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Tammy Carrie v. Horace Pernell Carrie
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Hernando County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
STEPHEN A. SHAW vs ROBERT BULLARD, AS PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE IN THE ESTATE OF BETTY S. SHAW
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Hernando County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
MATTHEW G. KENNEDY, ADMINISTRATOR AD LITEM OF THE ESTATE OF THOMAS R. KENNEDY vs KATHLEEN S. KENNEDY
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Hernando County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
NANCY M. MASON vs JOHN F. MASON
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Hernando County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
WOJCIECH RUTKOWSKI GRABOWSKI AND ALINA GRABOWSKI VS JAROSLAW RUTKOWSKI, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS TRUSTEE OF THE JANINA RUTKOWSKI FAMILY TRUST
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Hernando County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
CATHERINE MILLER vs TORY MORGAN
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Hernando County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
MICHAEL A. PEDONE vs PALMINA PORTEREIKO
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Hernando County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Lisa M. Haya f/k/a Lisa M. Hall v. Lennie P. Hall
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Hernando County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
HEATHER JORGENSEN vs MICHAEL TAGARELLI
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Hernando County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
Hernando County, a political subdivision of the State of Florida v. McGee & Mason, PA, and Joseph Mason, Esquire
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Hernando County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
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