Sixteenth Circuit — AO 2.004/26-2 controls circuit assignments… — Monroe County, FL · BenchPath

Sixteenth Circuit — AO 2.004/26-2 controls circuit assignments July 1–December 31, 2026 (term-limited)

High confidence· verified July 26, 2026Administrative Orders16th Cir. Admin. Order 2.004/26-2 (signed June 24, 2026; eff. July 1–Dec. 31, 2026), pp. 4-5

Summary

AO 2.004/26-2 (Circuit Court Division Assignments; Official Headquarters), signed June 24, 2026 by Chief Judge Timothy J. Koenig, sets every circuit judge's division and official headquarters for July 1 through December 31, 2026, and rescinds AO 2.004/26-1 on July 1, 2026. Official headquarters: Jones, Koenig and Helms in Key West; Morgan at Plantation Key. County assignments run under AO 2.005/25-2 (eff. Oct 20, 2025), and all four county judges additionally carry temporary all-division circuit authority under AO 12.003/26-2 for the same period. NOTE: this order is EXPRESSLY TERM-LIMITED and expires December 31, 2026.

Applies to

All nine judicial officers. Where a judge profile biography conflicts with this order, THE ORDER CONTROLS — two profiles carry stale text (Jones's still calls him chief judge; Morgan's still describes a county/Marathon role).

Requirement

• Probate and Guardianship Division a. All new and pending Probate cases in the Lower Keys Division shall be assigned to Judge Timothy Koenig. All new and pending Mental Health and Guardianship cases shall be assigned to Judge Bonnie J. Helms. b. All new cases filed in the Middle Keys Division shall be assigned to Judge Bonnie J. Helms. c. One-half of all Probate, Guardianship and Mental Health cases shall be assigned to Judge Timothy Koenig and one-half shall be assigned to Judge Bonnie Helms. In instances where a guardianship case has a companion mental health case, both cases shall be as signed to the same judge. B. The Clerk is instructed to establish procedures to ensure the distribution of cases as prescribed in Section A above. C. For purposes of travel reimbursement authorized and allowable under Section 112.061, Florida Statutes, the official headquarters for each judge shall be as follows:

Source of truth

Probate and Guardianship Division a. All new and pending Probate cases in the Lower Keys Division shall be assigned to Judge Timothy Koenig. All new and pending Mental Health and Guardianship cases shall be assigned to Judge Bonnie J. Helms. b. All new cases filed in the Middle Keys Division shall be assigned to Judge Bonnie J. Helms. c. One-half of all Probate, Guardianship and Mental Health cases shall be assigned to Judge Timothy Koenig and one-half shall be assigned to Judge Bonnie Helms. In instances where a guardianship case has a companion mental health case, both cases shall be as signed to the same judge. B. The Clerk is instructed to establish procedures to ensure the distribution of cases as prescribed in Section A above. C. For purposes of travel reimbursement authorized and allowable under Section 112.061, Florida Statutes, the official headquarters for each judge shall be a

Official source: 16th Circuit — Administrative Orders (ExactDN)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
Effective date: July 1, 2026
Last verified: July 26, 2026benchpath-reextract-2026-07-26

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. Verbatim from the operative section of this order, re-extracted 2026-07-26; whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

Probate — Elective Share Trust Litigation Probate — Will Contest Probate — Summary Administration Guardianship — Guardian Appointment Probate — Creditor Claims Probate — Formal Administration Minor Guardianship Emergency Temporary Guardianship Probate — Ancillary Administration Guardianship — Incapacity Determination Baker Act / Marchman Act

Change history

July 31, 2026Monitor: content changed at 16th Circuit — Administrative Orders (ExactDN). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 30, 2026Monitor: content changed at 16th Circuit — Administrative Orders (ExactDN). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 28, 2026Monitor: content changed at 16th Circuit — Administrative Orders (ExactDN). Review before republishing dependent rules.

4th Cir. — AO 1997-10 Amended Administrative Order No. 97-10 Pro Se Referals to Family Mediation

9 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-10.

High confidence· verified September 8, 2026Fourth Judicial Circuit Administrative Order 1997-10, filed 05/29/1997, published on the Duval Clerk's administrative-orders store — sha256-hashed 2026-08-03

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4th Cir. — AO 1997-13 Second Amended Administrative Order No. 97-13 Violation of Open Container Ordinances

6 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-13.

High confidence· verified August 3, 2026