Michelle R. Blume
General Magistrate · Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Court
High confidence· verified August 3, 2026
General Magistrate · Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Court
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451 verified requirements and 6 rule deadlines govern practice before Judge Michelle R. Blume across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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GM-3 — General Magistrate / CSE Hearing Officer (Family Law)
GM-2 — General Magistrate (Juvenile Dependency)
Edgecomb Courthouse, 800 E. Twiggs Street, Room 406, Tampa, FL 33602
Published forms & procedures: http://www.fljud13.org/Portals/0/Forms/pdfs/family/Final%20Hrg%20Pretrial%20Conf_postjud.pdf; http://www.fljud13.org/Portals/0/Forms/pdfs/family/TemporaryReliefMemorandum2.pdf
Verified against Judge Michelle R. Blume's own court profile page, 2026-08-02.
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Appeals from this courtroom go to the Second District Court of Appeal (St. Petersburg).
● LiveThat court's published bench (15): Andrea Teves Smith, Anthony K. Black, Craig C. Villanti, Daniel H. Sleet, Edward C. LaRose, J. Andrew Atkinson, John Guard, Matthew C. Lucas, Morris Silberman, Nelly Khouzam, Patricia J. Kelly, Robert Morris, Stevan T. Northcutt, Susan H. Rothstein-Youakim
Profile upgraded 2026-08-02: bio_url now points to this judge's own page (https://www.fljud13.org/Directory/General-Magistrates/GM-Michelle-Blume), confirmed to name them before extraction. The court publishes no biography paragraph for this judge. 2 linked form/procedure document(s) fetched and hashed.
1 verified rule specific to this judge's division, grouped by requirement category. 451 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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last checked September 5, 2026
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GM-3 — General Magistrate / CSE Hearing Officer (Family Law)current
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assignment source →GM-2 — General Magistrate (Juvenile Dependency)current
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Jurisdiction per § 35.043, Fla. Stat. (six-district alignment eff. Jan. 1, 2023).
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