DCF Arranges Remote Appearances; Witness Zoom Needs Court… — Hillsborough County, FL · BenchPath

DCF Arranges Remote Appearances; Witness Zoom Needs Court Permission — Juvenile Dependency B

Medium — verify before relying· verified July 5, 2026Remote / Zoom Hearings13th Jud. Cir., Judge Martin Judicial Practices & Procedures (Juv Dep B, mod. 1/23/2026) — PDF

Official rule; awaiting reverification against the current source text. Verify with the clerk, judicial assistant, or official court website before relying on it.

Summary

Judge Martin's practices PDF (mod. 1/23/2026, recovered from the portal vein): DCF is responsible for arranging remote appearances, witnesses appear by Zoom only with Court permission, and status conferences require a filed notice of hearing.

Applies to

Florida > Thirteenth Judicial Circuit > Hillsborough County > Juvenile Dependency Division B (Judge Richard H. Martin)

Source of truth

"DCF is responsible for arranging the remote appearance." / "unless the Court grants permission for the witness to appear by Zoom." / "A notice of hearing must be filed for the status conference."

Official source: 13th Cir. — Judge Martin (Juv Dependency B) Judicial Practices & Procedures — PDF
Source health: Healthy · checked October 25, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: July 5, 2026Live fetch 2026-07-05; dual-researcher dossier, Fable 5 hash-verified

Reviewer note: Cross-model verified 2026-07-05. 30-day recheck scheduled. Confidence set to medium 2026-09-08 (H3 re-verification): the live official document no longer carries this text verbatim — see the open change_detected task on its source. 2026-09-17: the task that carried this rule's ask was closed (reconciler, baseline-satisfied); this rule's own re-read task (scheduled_reverification, 2026-09-17) carries it now. The official page changed after this rule's verification: on 2026-10-13 the recorded source passage no longer appeared on https://www.fljud13.org/Portals/0/Forms/pdfs/judges/JudicialPracticesAndProcedures/JudgeRichardMartin.pdf (automated verbatim check, window match 0%). Confidence lowered to medium until the rule is re-read against the current text.

Juvenile Dependency

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