Loading…
Circuit Judge · Fifth Judicial Circuit Court
What applies in this courtroom
873 verified requirements and 6 rule deadlines govern practice before Judge Thomas R. Eineman across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
The tabs below show the judge-and-division layer only. The Full Premium Report assembles the complete stack — every requirement, deadline table, ruling intelligence, live case-type scan, and source appendix in one cited document.
Your first 7 Judge Intelligence Reports are free with a free account — no payment card required.
Administrative Judge of the Family Law Courts and Divisions
From Judge Thomas R. Eineman'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, and a search of the site's WordPress media library found no portrait record titled with this judge's name. No published portrait found — recorded, not guessed.
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).
● 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).
Enriched from live circuit5.org profile + controlling assignment order (independently fetched and sha256-hashed 2026-07-20; 5th Circuit arbitrated upgrade).
2 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.
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 26 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (February 22, 2016–July 16, 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.
GERALD W. FLETCHER vs CHERILL KENNEDY
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Hernando County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
last checked September 4, 2026
Research connectors
CourtListener
● liveFree Law Project
Free. Opinions, dockets, RECAP, judge metadata. Powering the case-law search on this page.
Westlaw
○ bring your licenseThomson Reuters
Bring your firm's license — enterprise connector queries your judge and related cases inside Westlaw. Phase 2.
LexisNexis
○ bring your licenseRELX
Bring your firm's license — enterprise connector for Lexis+ research tied to your matter. Phase 2.
BenchPath never scrapes licensed databases. Westlaw and LexisNexis connect only through your firm's own credentials and entitlements when the enterprise connectors ship.
Administrative Judge of the Family Law Courts and Divisionscurrent
date not recorded — present
assignment source →Monitor: content changed at 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures). Review before republishing dependent rules.
via 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures)
Monitor: content changed at 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures). Review before republishing dependent rules.
via 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures)
Monitor: content changed at 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures). Review before republishing dependent rules.
via 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures)
MAURICE RHODES vs KATHIA RHODES
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Hernando County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Janice Campbell v. John Campbell
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Hernando County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
E.I., MOTHER OF R.C., A CHILD vs DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Hernando County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
GALEASIA LATRELL CARTER-VELEZ vs ALDOMAR M. VELEZ
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Hernando County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Raymond Evans v. Juliana Evans
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Hernando County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Robert DiGiorgio v. Zandra DiGiorgio
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Hernando County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
VINCENT FALATO vs DAWNA AGUIAR FALATO
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Hernando County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
H.L., MOTHER OF M.L. AND Z.L., CHILDREN vs DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Hernando County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Juan Ulises Ramirez v. Tiffany R. Gregory
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Hernando County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
D.J., FATHER OF A.J. AND D.J, CHILDREN VS DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Hernando County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
OLIVER BATTLE vs CHARINA BATTLE
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Hernando County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Kinkaid v. Daniels, Department of Revenue
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Hernando County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
DONALD R. MUNDY vs PAMELA MUNDY
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Hernando County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
J.M., MOTHER OF M.T., A CHILD vs STEVE AND DIANE RINGLEY AND DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Hernando County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
ELIZABETH ANN BOITANO vs GRECIELYN SELGAS BOITANO AND MATTHEW JAMES BOITANO
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Hernando County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
ELIZABETH ANN BOITANO vs GRECIELYN SELGAS BOITANO AND MATTHEW JAMES BOITANO
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Hernando County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
J.P., MOTHER OF A.P., A MINOR CHILD vs DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES AND J.M., FATHER OF A.P., A MINOR CHILD
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Hernando County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
RYAN ALAN COX VS LORRAINE MARIE COX
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Hernando County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
MAURICE RHODES vs KATHIA RHODES
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Hernando County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Nicholas Charles Laurino v. Julia Mariana Sietema
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Hernando County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Alexander L. Bauer v. Jordin Carlson and Taylor A. Butler
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Hernando County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
Richard Matassa v. Tabatha Matassa
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Hernando County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
KERRY ESSER, JR. vs JESSICA L. ESSER
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Hernando County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
STEPHEN F. THORNTON vs BEVERLY A. ROHLFS
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Hernando County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Magdziak v. Sullivan
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Hernando County
Answer three quick questions. The platform pulls Thomas R. Eineman's full public case-law record from the source, newest first — your matter never narrows the pull; it directs the relevance ranking and the dual-AI analysis. Every hit comes back Bluebook-cited with the opinion's own words quoted verbatim. The scan takes the time precision takes.
Case-law search
CourtListener · free connector · liveCoverage note: CourtListener is strongest for federal courts and state appellate courts. Florida circuit-court opinions are sparsely represented — an absence of results is a coverage gap, not evidence about this judge.
Monitor: content changed at 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures). Review before republishing dependent rules.
via 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures)
Monitor: content changed at 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures). Review before republishing dependent rules.
via 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures)
Monitor: content changed at 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures). Review before republishing dependent rules.
via 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures)