Emergency Guardianship and Vulnerable-Adult Petitions Are In… — Hillsborough County, FL · BenchPath

Emergency Guardianship and Vulnerable-Adult Petitions Are In Person — Probate B / RPO N

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Case Management13th Jud. Cir., Judge Tesche Arkin Procedures & Preferences (Probate B / RPO N)

Summary

Judge Tesche Arkin defaults to Zoom but pulls emergencies back into the courtroom: Emergency Temporary Guardianship and Vulnerable Adult petitions are heard in person with counsel and parties present; 1-hour-plus hearings are JA-set and in-person only.

Applies to

Florida > Thirteenth Judicial Circuit > Hillsborough County > Probate Division B & Risk Protection Orders N (Judge Caroline Tesche Arkin)

Source of truth

"Any Emergency Hearings, including Emergency Temporary Guardianship Petitions and Vulnerable Adult Petitions will be conducted in person, with the counsel's and parties' presence required" / "1-HOUR HEARINGS OR LONGER MUST BE SET WITH THE JA AND WILL BE "IN-PERSON" ONLY." / "CASE LAW MUST BE SUBMITTED AT LEAST 3 DAYS BEFORE HEARING."

Official source: 13th Cir. — Judge Tesche Arkin (Probate B / RPO N) 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): 2 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 36befdf7c679eeb608aade32ec5e573d3088888190422a8ad7cffbab8321f286; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.fljud13.org/Directory/Judges/Judge-Tesche-Arkin), harvested 2026-08-04; each bullet is quoted whole from the page, whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

Emergency Temporary Guardianship

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