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A standing recusal order moves your case only if the subject attorney files the party's FIRST pleading or paper. Bring that attorney in later and the case stays put — you are deemed to have waived the judge's disqualification.
Applies circuit-wide in the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit (Hillsborough County) to every division governed by a standing recusal order or standing recusal administrative order.
• Conditions on Standing Recusal Orders and Standing Recusal Administrative Orders Whenever a subject judge is presiding in any subject matter division and there is a standing recusal order or standing recusal administrative order in effect, the clerk will reassign all cases of a subject attorney to another division only if the subject attorney files and serves a party's first pleading or paper in the proceeding. Because a subject attorney is professionally obligated to notify a client of the existence of a standing recusal order or a standing recusal administrative order between the subject attorney and the subject judge and may not interject conflict into a case, if a subject attorney appears in a proceeding pending before a subject judge after the party's first pleading or paper is filed and served, the clerk is directed to not automatically reassign the proceeding to another division. Nothing in this provision precludes any party from filing a motion for judicial disqualification under Florida Rule of Judicial Administration 2.330.
Conditions on Standing Recusal Orders and Standing Recusal Administrative Orders Whenever a subject judge is presiding in any subject matter division and there is a standing recusal order or standing recusal administrative order in effect, the clerk will reassign all cases of a subject attorney to another division only if the subject attorney files and serves a party's first pleading or paper in the proceeding. Because a subject attorney is professionally obligated to notify a client of the existence of a standing recusal order or a standing recusal administrative order between the subject attorney and the subject judge and may not interject conflict into a case, if a subject attorney appears in a proceeding pending before a subject judge after the party's first pleading or paper is filed and served, the clerk is directed to not automatically reassign the proceeding to another division.
Reviewer note: | Set to in_review 2026-07-26: the order's subject looks practitioner-facing but the extracted text captured only recitals or an effective date, not the operative ORDERED section. This is an extraction defect, not a judgement that the order is unimportant — it needs re-extraction before it goes back on the published surface. | Re-extracted 2026-07-26 from the numbered paragraphs following the order's ORDERED clause, replacing a first pass that had captured recitals and the effective date. 1 further paragraph(s) were left out because their OCR is too corrupt to quote. Text layer cleaned 2026-09-08 (Phase 3f): page headers/footers, ligatures and letter-spaced headings normalised; wording untouched. Verbatim from the operative section of this order, re-extracted 2026-07-26; whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]
9 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-10.
6 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-13.