Digital Courtesy Copies Only; Small Claims & Eviction… — Hillsborough County, FL · BenchPath

Digital Courtesy Copies Only; Small Claims & Eviction Procedures Published — County Civil J

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Courtesy Copies13th Jud. Cir., Judge Baggé-Hernández Procedures & Preferences (County Civ. J)

Summary

Judge Baggé-Hernández runs the fullest county-civil template (13 sections) including dedicated Small Claims and Landlord/Tenant-Eviction procedures — courtesy copies go digitally to the division, JAWS is the scheduling default, and unsolicited non-party communications are disregarded.

Applies to

Florida > Thirteenth Judicial Circuit > Hillsborough County > County Civil Division J (Judge Michael C. Baggé-Hernández)

Source of truth

"When these procedures require a courtesy copy, the copy must be provided digitally to civdivj@fljud13.org" / "All requests for court dates must be made through JAWS when available or by e-mail as set forth below." / "Unsolicited communications from non-parties will not be considered by the Court unless authorized by law and properly made part of the record."

Official source: 13th Cir. — Judge Baggé-Hernández (County Civil J) Procedures & Preferences
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 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 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, fully-anchored): 3 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 848b7981c7e2a9ebd2a477bcc957324497490c2b80dce88fa461957db8737655; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.fljud13.org/Directory/Judges/Judge-Bagg%C3%A9-Hern%C3%A1ndez), harvested 2026-08-04; each bullet is quoted whole from the page, whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

Small Claims County Civil Landlord/Tenant & Eviction

Change history

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July 28, 2026

Broward Division 82/WC (LAUREN N. PEFFER) — Courtesy copies

1 verbatim requirement on courtesy copies in LAUREN N. PEFFER's division.

High confidence· verified September 9, 202617th Jud. Cir., Division 82/WC divisional procedures — captured and sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Courtesy CopiesDuval County · Circuit Civil Division CV-F · Judge James H. Daniel

No Courtesy Copies Required — Division CV-F

Judge Daniel is the courthouse outlier who wants NO courtesy copies of pleadings or case law sent to chambers — a sharp contrast with neighboring divisions.

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