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5 verbatim mandatory provisions from AO 2015-36 Identification of Court Pleadings With Specificity.
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. • IDENTIFICATION OF COURT PLEADINGS WITH SPECIFICITY ORDER WHEREAS, the Florida State Courts System and Clerks of Court are steadily moving in the direction of increased reliance upon electronic filing, electronic service, electronic scheduling, and electronic case dockets as presently provided for by the Florida Supreme Court Standards for Electronic Access to the Courts Version 14.0; and WHEREAS, the ability to accurately and quickly identify or locate court pleadings, orders and other documents serves the interest of minimizing confusion and serves the further purpose of ensuring that judicial proceedings are handled as expeditiously and efficiently as possible; and WHEREAS, several provisions within the Florida Rules of Courts already provide that documents filed shall be styled or captioned in such a manner as to indicate clearly the subject matter of the document and the party requesting relief; • When a party to a proceeding before the Courts of the First Judicial Circuit, or counsel, files a pleading, document or notice of hearing, or submits a proposed order, the party or counsel shall, for ease of further reference, title or caption with specificity the pleading, document, notice of hearing, or proposed order so as to facilitate the ability to quickly identify and locate same utilizing only the title or caption (i.e. in multi-defendant cases: • Henceforth, no order shall be submitted which is merely titled “ORDER.” 2. • When a party to a proceeding before the Courts of the First Judicial Circuit, or counsel, files a pleading, document or notice of hearing, or submits a proposed order, which includes a reference to a previously filed pleading, document or to the motion being scheduled for hearing, the party or counsel shall, for ease of further reference: • However, this Administrative Order is not intended to circumvent any jurisdictional time limitations and shall not be construed or applied as such. 4.
IDENTIFICATION OF COURT PLEADINGS WITH SPECIFICITY ORDER WHEREAS, the Florida State Courts System and Clerks of Court are steadily moving in the direction of increased reliance upon electronic filing, electronic service, electronic scheduling, and electronic case dockets as presently provided for by the Florida Supreme Court Standards for Electronic Access to the Courts Version 14.0; and WHEREAS, the ability to accurately and quickly identify or locate court pleadings, orders and other documents serves the interest of minimizing confusion and serves the further purpose of ensuring that judicial proceedings are handled as expeditiously and efficiently as possible; and WHEREAS, several provisions within the Florida Rules of Courts already provide that documents filed shall be styled or captioned in such a manner as to indicate clearly the subject matter of the document and the party reques
Reviewer note: Document sha256: b0dcd0fa915d1e4253298d638c6dd4ad0ea8d9239d58bd323676322363e7f9a5 (64835 bytes). BenchPath harvested this circuit itself because no research corpus existed for it. Extraction is conservative: mandatory-language sentences only, so this rule is a faithful subset of the order, never a summary of it.
Division AO requires proposed orders to be submitted in Word format through the 15th Circuit Online Services System. Orders submitted online do not need a date or signature line.
3 verbatim requirements published by Palm Beach Division M on proposed orders & online scheduling.
When counsel is asked to prepare an order after a hearing, it must be drafted and circulated to opposing counsel within three working days and submitted to the Court within seven days of the hearing.