Elisabeth Adams
Circuit Judge · Twentieth Judicial Circuit Court
High confidence· verified September 14, 2026
Circuit Judge · Twentieth Judicial Circuit Court
What applies in this courtroom
443 verified requirements may apply in this courtroom, by layer: 3 published by Judge Elisabeth Adams · 5 county-wide · 425 circuit-wide · 10 statewide — with 6 rule deadlines across those layers. Only the judge's own rules are specific to this courtroom; the other layers apply by court, county and state scope, and a court- or case-specific order can displace them.
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Administrative Judge — Lee County
Lee County Justice Center, 1700 Monroe Street, Fort Myers, FL 33901
Published forms & procedures: Judge Elisabeth Adams Policies & Procedures; Order of Referral to Magistrate; Order Appointing Guardian Ad Litem
Verified against Judge Elisabeth Adams's own court profile page, 2026-07-24.
Division (official profile, verified 2026-07-19): Lee Domestic Relations C 20%
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 Sixth District Court of Appeal (Lakeland).
● LiveThat court's published bench (11): Carrie Ann Wozniak, Dan Traver, Jared E. Smith, John K. Stargel, Joshua A. Mize, Joshua E. Pratt, Keith F. White, Mary Alice Nardella, Paetra T. Brownlee, Rachel B. Kamoutsas, Roger K. Gannam
Jurisdiction per § 35.043, Fla. Stat. (six-district alignment eff. Jan. 1, 2023).
Profile upgraded 2026-07-24: bio_url now points to this judge's own page (https://www.ca.cjis20.org/About-The-Court/jud_profile.aspx?judge=eadams), confirmed to name them before extraction. The court publishes no biography paragraph for this judge. 3 linked form/procedure document(s) fetched and hashed.
3 verified rules specific to this judge's division, grouped by requirement category. 443 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.
Judge-specific practice preferences and procedures for the 20th Judicial Circuit; verbatim key requirements with hashed source documents.
1 verbatim requirement on judge preferences.
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.
No verified ruling summary yet. BenchPath generates ruling summaries from opinion and docket corpora (CourtListener where covered) and publishes them only after human review — fabricated judicial analytics are exactly what this platform refuses to ship.
Use the live case-law search below to see what exists for this judge today.
How Florida’s appellate courts disposed of the 15 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (September 3, 2008–October 21, 2021) 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.
GERALD ROBERT SMITH vs CHERYL SHORT SMITH
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
SAMMY KENT vs CHRISTINE KENT
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JOSEPH VERRIER vs PHOEBE OAKES
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Denied
GREGORY WILLIAM GOETZ vs CRYSTAL BROUSSARD GOETZ
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
KENNETH ALAN PEARSON vs SHAY RAE PEARSON
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
JOSEPH VERRIER vs PHOEBE E. OAKS, F/K/A PHOEBE E. VERRIER
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
Marcheck v. Marcheck
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Perez v. Fay
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Perez v. Fay
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Mills v. Johnson
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Alarcon v. Alarcon
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Cash v. Cash
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Weiss v. Weiss
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
09-5099
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Attorneys' Title Ins. Fund, Inc. v. Gorka
Second District Court of Appeal · Charlotte County
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last checked October 24, 2026
last checked October 24, 2026
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