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Kurt E. Hitzemann
County Judge · Hernando County Court · Hernando County, Florida
High confidence· verified September 14, 2026
- verified requirements
- 316
- verified requirements
- rule deadlines
- 6
- rule deadlines
- sources cited
- 2
- sources cited
- reviewed insights
- 0
- reviewed insights
- verified rulings
- 0
- verified rulings
Verification profile
- High · 297
- Medium · 19
- Low · 0
- Unverified · 0
Report generated October 25, 2026 · benchpath.ai/reports/judge/kurt-e-hitzemann
01 Division & assignment
County Judge — Hernando County
Chambers & practice notes
- Judicial Assistant
- JoAnne Clay Email: jclay@circuit5.org Office: 352-754-4170 Fax: 352-754-4267
From Judge Kurt E. Hitzemann's own profile page on the circuit's county judiciary index, verified 2026-07-25.
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.
02 Live Case-Type Intelligence Scan
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Case-law search
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03 Division intelligence
Appellate exposure
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).
04 Appellate record (7)
05 Procedural requirements (316)
06 Deadline table
07 Ruling intelligence
No verified ruling summary yet — summaries publish only after human review of a real opinion/docket corpus. The live scan at the top of this report covers what public sources hold today.
08 Source appendix (2)
- 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures)Healthychecked October 24, 2026
- Florida Rules of Court Procedure — The Florida Bar rules index (floridabar.org/rules/ctproc/)Healthychecked October 22, 2026
09 Recent change events
- August 6, 2026Monitor: content changed at 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures). Review before republishing dependent rules.
- August 5, 2026Monitor: content changed at 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures). Review before republishing dependent rules.
- August 3, 2026Monitor: content changed at 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures). Review before republishing dependent rules.
- August 2, 2026Monitor: content changed at 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures). Review before republishing dependent rules.
- August 1, 2026Monitor: content changed at 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures). Review before republishing dependent rules.
- July 31, 2026Monitor: content changed at 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures). Review before republishing dependent rules.
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This report compiles procedural information and public-record research from the official sources cited above, with per-item verification status. It is not legal advice, contains no outcome predictions, is not a substitute for the advice of an attorney, and creates no attorney–client relationship. Items below high confidence must be verified against the official source before relying on them. Print with your browser for a clean PDF.