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12 verbatim mandatory provisions from Amended AO 2024-25 Civil Case Management – Mandatory Review of Civil Cases and Entry of Case Management Orders.
First Judicial Circuit. Check the order's own effective and rescission dates before relying on it. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from the order's own text layer, harvested 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. Only sentences containing mandatory language (shall, must, may not, no later than, within N) are reproduced — the full document is in custody and is the controlling text. • CIVIL CASE MANAGEMENT– MANDATORY REVIEW OF CIVIL CASES AND ENTRY OF CASE MANAGEMENT ORDERS WHEREAS, the Florida Supreme Court has issued Administrative Order 2023-0962 and amended Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.200,1 requiring the Chief Judge of each judicial circuit to enter an administrative order addressing certain case management requirements; and WHEREAS, pursuant to the aforementioned authorities, each civil case must be assigned within 120 days after the action commences to a complex, general, or streamlined case management track; and WHEREAS, except for case management orders issued in complex cases, the Chief Judge sets the forms for case management orders; • The case management procedures set forth in this Order must be followed in all civil actions unless the action falls within an exception set forth in rule 1.200. 2. • Within 120 days after the commencement of any civil case subject to this Order, the presiding judge in the case must review and assign the case to one of the three case management tracks by entering an initial case management order. • Complex cases are actions designated by court order as complex under rule 1.201, and such cases must proceed as provided in rule 1.201. b. • The case management order for each streamlined or general civil case, complete with the applicable deadlines, must be entered no later than 120 days after commencement of the action as provided in rule 1.050. • The case management order for a streamlined or general civil case must be in the form provided in the attachments to this Order, consistent with the requirements of rule 1.200.2 4. • Pursuant to rule 1.200, the case management order must specify, at a minimum, the following deadlines: service of complaints; service under extensions; adding new parties; completion of fact discovery; completion of expert discovery; filing and service of motions for summary judgment; filing and resolution of all objections to pleadings; filing and resolution of all pretrial motions; and completion of alternative dispute resolution. 5. • Plaintiff (if self-represented) or Plaintiff’s counsel must file a Notice of Final Service (“notice”) when the last-named defendant has been served with the complaint to notify the presiding judge that service is complete and that the case management order may be prepared. • The notice must be filed within five days of final service, and Plaintiff or Plaintiff’s counsel must serve the notice on the assigned judge’s judicial assistant. • The case management order for complex cases must be issued according to the requirements of Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.201. 2 Rule 1.200 does not require the Chief Judge to set the form for case management orders in complex cases. -- 2 of 3 -- 8. • Attorneys are also reminded that they must strictly comply with Florida Rule of General Practice and Judicial Administration 2.545(a), which requires lawyers to conclude litigation as soon as it is reasonably and justly possible to do so. 10. • To the extent that any timeframe or other provision of this Order may be construed as being in conflict with any rule, statute, or law, the rule, statute, or law shall prevail. 11.
CIVIL CASE MANAGEMENT– MANDATORY REVIEW OF CIVIL CASES AND ENTRY OF CASE MANAGEMENT ORDERS WHEREAS, the Florida Supreme Court has issued Administrative Order 2023-0962 and amended Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.200,1 requiring the Chief Judge of each judicial circuit to enter an administrative order addressing certain case management requirements; and WHEREAS, pursuant to the aforementioned authorities, each civil case must be assigned within 120 days after the action commences to a complex, general, or streamlined case management track; and WHEREAS, except for case management orders issued in complex cases, the Chief Judge sets the forms for case management orders;
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Parties in dissolution and most family financial cases must exchange a financial affidavit and specified financial documents within 45 days of service of the initial pleading, file a certificate of compliance, and supplement as circumstances change.
Small claims cases (up to $8,000) begin with a mandatory pretrial conference where the court narrows issues and typically orders mediation. Failure to appear can result in default or dismissal.
CV-E runs a structured 150-day case management conference track with published CMO templates for jury, non-jury, and complex settings, plus a projected-vs-actual trial period system and 2026–2027 published trial calendars.