Brevard — Controlling Division Assignment Order AO 26-16-B (eff. 2026-04-01)
Summary
Brevard — Controlling Division Assignment Order AO 26-16-B (eff. 2026-04-01)
Requirement
EFFECTIVE April 1, 2026 — controlling Brevard circuit + county division assignments (per-division judge chart; circuit civil D/K/L/M, family B/F/G/V, criminal H/N/O/S/T/X, probate P, juvenile C; county divisions 1-11). Companion orders AO 26-17-B / AO 26-20-B moved County Judge Katie Jacobus into Juvenile Delinquency (Div 11) and redistributed former County Criminal Division 4. The order PDF controls over the site HTML transcription (HTML duplicates Juvenile Dependency and carries a 3/278/2026 date typo). Live-fetched + hashed 2026-07-20.
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- July 19, 2026fable-5 18th-circuit arbitrated ingest 2026-07-20
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