Judge James Pierce — Practice Preferences (Pinellas County UFC…

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All trials shall be in person, unless a Zoom appearance is approved by the Court in

Official source: 6th Circuit — Judge James Pierce Practice Preferences
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Reviewer note: PROVENANCE CORRECTED 2026-07-24. This rule was published at high confidence with no review note, but the research corpus it came from records evidence_level = STRUCTURED_TRANSCRIPTION_FROM_REVIEWED_SOURCE and verbatim = NO for 98 of its 101 requirement rows. The text here is a faithful transcription of a reviewed source, NOT a verbatim quotation, and BenchPath's standard reserves high confidence for live-fetch verification of the official source. Lowered to medium pending a verbatim re-capture. The cited source URL is live and was re-fetched 2026-07-24; only 3 of the corpus's 101 requirements were captured verbatim. | Elevated medium->high 2026-08-02: the paraphrase was replaced with 30 verbatim requirement(s) taken live from the source (sha256 9eb0d8c10cb16e2e…). Verbatim from the source, re-verified 2026-08-02; whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

Modification (Family)Equitable Distribution Temporary Relief (Family)Paternity Relocation Alimony / Spousal Support Name Change Domestic Violence Injunction Dating / Sexual Violence Injunction Simplified Dissolution Dissolution of Marriage Parenting Plans & Time-Sharing Repeat Violence Injunction Adoption Child Support

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Judge James Pierce — Practice Preferences (Pinellas County UFC, Section UFC)

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