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Administrative Order 2025-06 (In re: Magistrates and Hearing Officers, superseding AO 2022-03), with its Amended appendix (Rev. 5/28/26), is the framework for references to general magistrates and child-support hearing officers: what may be referred, consent and objection mechanics, and the officer roster. The appendix revision published May 28, 2026 is the current officer list.
Family, civil, probate and related references circuit-wide. The order of referral form is AO 2023-03 Exhibit A; individual magistrates publish their own procedure PDFs (in BenchPath custody).
Verbatim from the operative section of this order, re-extracted 2026-07-26; whitespace normalised only. • Automatic Referral to a Child Support Enforcement Hearing Officer a. Upon the filing of any action where the Florida Department of Revenue is a party and the sole issue is the establishment, enforcement, or modification of child support, the action shall be automatically referred to the appropriate Child Support Enforcement Hearing Officer. b. No objections to a referral to a Child Support Enforcement Hearing Officer pursuant to this section will be entertained by the Court. c. Either party may set the action for hearing before the assigned Child Support Enforcement Hearing Officer. d. The Child Support Enforcement Hearing Officer will proceed with the hearings and preparation and filing of a recommended order pursuant to Fla. Fam. L. R. P. 12.491. • Recission of Prior Appointments As to any General Magistrate, Child Support Enforcement Hearing Officer, or Civil Traffic Infraction Hearing Officer not expressly identified in this Administrative Order, all prior appointments such personnel are hereby rescinded. Furthermore, upon the removal of any individual’s name from the Appendices attached hereto, the previously entered order of appointment for that individual shall likewise be deemed rescinded.
Automatic Referral to a Child Support Enforcement Hearing Officer a. Upon the filing of any action where the Florida Department of Revenue is a party and the sole issue is the establishment, enforcement, or modification of child support, the action shall be automatically referred to the appropriate Child Support Enforcement Hearing Officer. b. No objections to a referral to a Child Support Enforcement Hearing Officer pursuant to this section will be entertained by the Court. c. Either party may set the action for hearing before the assigned Child Support Enforcement Hearing Officer. d. The Child Support Enforcement Hearing Officer will proceed with the hearings and preparation and filing of a recommended order pursuant to Fla. Fam. L. R. P. 12.491.
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.
2 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1986-33A.
1 verbatim requirement from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1987-09.