Circuit Judge · Fourth Judicial Circuit Court
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1,748 verified requirements and 8 rule deadlines govern practice before Judge Thomas M. Beverly across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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Probate — Division PR-B (Duval)
Courtroom/hearing room 715
From the circuit's own Circuit and County Judges table, verified 2026-07-25.
Verified 2026-08-03: jud4.org publishes no judge portraits — the roster is a text table and the biographies page carries no judge photos. 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).
● LiveThat court's published bench (11): Adrian G. Soud, Brian D. Lambert, Eric J. Eisnaugle, F. Rand Wallis, Harvey L. Jay, James A. Edwards, Joe Boatwright, John M. Harris, John MacIver, Paige Kilbane, Scott Makar
Jurisdiction per § 35.043, Fla. Stat. (six-district alignment eff. Jan. 1, 2023).
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2 verified rules specific to this judge's division, grouped by requirement category. 1,748 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. 8 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 19 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (December 31, 2013–March 19, 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.
Joseph L. Caliandro, as Trustee of the Caliandro Family Trust of June 4, 2015 vs Bernhard Rechthaler, In Re: The Estate of Ingeborg F. Caliandro, Deceased
last checked September 4, 2026
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First District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Dismissed
Valerie Leigh Jones, both Individually and in her capacity as Agent and Attorney-in-Fact for Robert Wayne Cantrell, II, v. Lauren Cantrell
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Reginald A. Hayes v. The Estate of Elease Williams Hayes and Regina Hayes,
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Raymond L. Davis v. Pauline Alexander and The Estate of Raymond E. L. Davis, Sr.
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Dale Dixon, Administrator ad Litem of the Estate of Alfonso T. Glover, Jr. v. Michael J. Green, Rosa Wright, Ruth Randal, Deloris Kidd, Arlean Brookins, and Andrea Troutman
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
Arneka Green vs Deloris Kidd
First District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Dyck-O'Neal, Inc. vs Hoang N. Nguyen
First District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
Palmentere Bros. Cartage Service, Inc., et al. vs Heather Copeland and Phillip Copeland, her husband
First District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
Francine Patricia Ryan, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Bettina Lorraine McMahon vs Rubin Law Associates, P.A. d/b/a Rubin & Rubin
First District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Meghan Hotchkiss vs Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, Inc., etc.
First District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Michael T. Angelo d/b/a Orange Park Auto Mall vs Timothy Parker, individually and on behalf of those similarly situated
First District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
Dyck-O'Neal, Inc. vs Hoang N. Nguyen
First District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Michael Jones vs Brad Stetson, Mallory D. Cooper, and Donald R. Moran
First District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Jonathon Jacobs vs Joseph Michael Nackashi
First District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Jane Charles vs Elease Hayes et al: Reginal Hayes and et al.
First District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Dismissed
Oldcastle Southern Group, Inc., a Georgia etc. vs Railworks Track Systems, Inc., a Nevada etc.
First District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Motorola Solutions, Inc. vs Verne Williams, Erika Williams, et al.
First District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Dismissed
ERNEST JOHNSON, v. STATE OF FLORIDA
First District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Ernest Johnson vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
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