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PDF for Agreed, Word for Competing, 3- and 5-Day Clocks — Circuit Civil O

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Proposed Orders13th Jud. Cir., Judge Ward Procedures & Preferences (Circ. Civ. O)

Summary

Judge Ward: agreed orders upload PDF-only to the ePortal within 5 days of hearing; objectors must deliver Word competing orders within 3 days; no response after 5 days of service lets the movant upload; binders are welcome if indexed, tabbed, and 3 days early.

Applies to

Florida > Thirteenth Judicial Circuit > Hillsborough County > Circuit Civil Division O (Judge Laura E. Ward)

Source of truth

"A proposed agreed Order ... can be uploaded, only as a PDF" / "The competing Order must be received within 3 days." / "If after 5 days of service a response is not received by opposing counsel, a proposed Order, as a PDF, may be uploaded" / "Hearing binders are most useful if they are indexed, tabbed, and provide three days in advance"

Official source: 13th Cir. — Judge Ward (Civ O) Procedures & Preferences
Source health: Healthy · checked October 23, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 9, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-08 (live text containment) | prior: benchpath-cw-2026-08-04

Reviewer note: Cross-model verified (accordion + PDF veins) 2026-07-05. 30-day recheck scheduled. | 2026-08-03: the source (rendered DOM (headless Chromium)) no longer contains this rule's quoted text; dropped to medium pending re-composition against the current version. [RECOMPOSED VERBATIM 2026-08-04 (campaign wave, partially-anchored): 3 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 f155fd070cf50ee567f36554121cad2d01d4189a196bbc02ecfc391357e8b742; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.fljud13.org/Directory/Judges/Judge-Laura-Ward), harvested 2026-08-04; each bullet is quoted whole from the page, whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

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