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9 verbatim mandatory provisions from AO 2019-03 Submission and Distribution Requirements for Orders in Civil Proceedings.
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. • SUBMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENTS FOR ORDERS IN CIVIL PROCEEDINGS WHEREAS, it is established this directive shall apply to any person who qualifies as a “party” to a civil action pursuant to the provisions of Florida Rules of Civil Procedure, Florida Rules of Probate Procedure, and Florida Rules of Family Law Procedure; and WHEREAS, it is necessary to establish procedures for the submission and distribution of proposed orders; it is ORDERED: 1. • Any attorney who submits a proposed order or judgment for review by, or under the direction of, the Court, shall furnish the proposed order under the following directives: a. • Except as otherwise directed by the presiding judge on a case by case basis, or as otherwise specified by statute, Rule or Supreme Court administrative order, all proposed orders shall be presented via the Proposed Order function in the Florida e-Filing Portal. b. • Any attorney meeting the criteria to be excused from electronic transmission pursuant to Rule 2.516, Florida Rules of Judicial Administration, may submit a proposed order on paper to the division judge, which must include a Certificate of Service for use in serving the signed order by U.S. • When submitting paper orders, attorneys must include a sufficient number of conforming copies with a pre-addressed, stamped envelope for all parties. d. • In cases with one pro se party, the attorney in the case shall have the responsibility to serve the pro se plaintiff/petitioner or pro se defendant/respondent copies of any orders received from the courts via the Florida Courts e-Filing Portal. • The attorney shall prepare and file a Certificate of Compliance within five business days as proof of the attorney’s service upon the pro se litigants(s). 3. • All proposed orders, whether submitted by a pro se litigant or by an attorney of record, shall include the following language as the final paragraph: “In cases wherein one party is unrepresented (pro se), it is the responsibility of the sole attorney in the case to serve within five business days this [order or judgment] upon any pro se party who does not have access to and is not a registered user of the Florida Courts e-Filing Portal.” 4. • Effective October 1, 2019 a “Certificate of Service” shall no longer be affixed to any electronic proposed order submitted to the Court.
SUBMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENTS FOR ORDERS IN CIVIL PROCEEDINGS WHEREAS, it is established this directive shall apply to any person who qualifies as a “party” to a civil action pursuant to the provisions of Florida Rules of Civil Procedure, Florida Rules of Probate Procedure, and Florida Rules of Family Law Procedure; and WHEREAS, it is necessary to establish procedures for the submission and distribution of proposed orders; it is ORDERED: 1.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: f741ed6317c07ba804600f806233d87ab2ed0c9554ba909c513be55169bbd205 (324517 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.