AO 2022-20 Administrative Closing of Inactive Reopened Civil… — Okaloosa County, FL · BenchPath

First Cir. — AO 2022-20 Administrative Closing of Inactive Reopened Civil Cases, Okaloosa

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Case ManagementFirst Judicial Circuit, AO 2022-20 Administrative Closing of Inactive Reopened Civil Cases, Okaloosa — harvested live and sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Summary

8 verbatim mandatory provisions from AO 2022-20 Administrative Closing of Inactive Reopened Civil Cases, Okaloosa.

Applies to

First Judicial Circuit. Check the order's own effective and rescission dates before relying on it. Procedural information only; not legal advice.

Requirement

• ADMINISTRATIVE CLOSING OF INACTIVE REOPENED CIVIL CASES WHEREAS, rule 2.545, Florida Rules of General Practice and Judicial Administration, requires judges to take charge of cases and control case progress until no further judicial action is required; and WHEREAS, the Supreme Court of Florida, in AOSC21-17, Amendment 3, has implemented new procedures requiring presiding judges to actively manage civil cases; and WHEREAS, the Okaloosa County Clerk of the Court (the “Clerk”) reopens cases when a party submits a post-judgment pleading, motion, or other filing; and WHEREAS, many such reopened cases have been inactive for substantial periods of time; and WHEREAS, many filings in reopened cases have been abandoned by the parties or are otherwise moot; and WHEREAS, for case management and accurate reporting of the number of cases engaged in active litigation, it is necessary to purge the dockets of reopened cases which are dormant and require no further judicial attention other than administrative closure; • The Clerk shall, on July 1, 2022, identify all reopened cases in circuit civil, probate, family, county civil, small claims, and dependency, wherein no case filings or court events occurred within the previous 10 months; 2. • For each case identified under Paragraph 1, the Clerk shall docket and e- serve this Administrative Order upon each party or the party’s attorney(s) at the email address(es) designated for e-service pursuant to rule 2.516, Florida Rules of General Practice and Judicial Administration. 3. • If no record activity occurs within sixty (60) days following the date of service of the Administrative Order, the Clerk shall proceed to administratively close all reopened cases identified pursuant to Paragraph 1. 4. • On an annual basis, each July 1, the Clerk shall identify all reopened cases in circuit civil, probate, family, county civil, small claims, and dependency, wherein no case filings or court events have occurred within the preceding 10 months. • The Clerk shall then follow the procedure as outlined in Paragraphs 2 and 3 with regard to the identified cases. • Such annual review shall take place until further order of the Chief Judge. 5. • To reopen a case that has been closed pursuant to this order, a party shall pay any applicable filing fees to the Clerk. 7.

Source of truth

ADMINISTRATIVE CLOSING OF INACTIVE REOPENED CIVIL CASES WHEREAS, rule 2.545, Florida Rules of General Practice and Judicial Administration, requires judges to take charge of cases and control case progress until no further judicial action is required; and WHEREAS, the Supreme Court of Florida, in AOSC21-17, Amendment 3, has implemented new procedures requiring presiding judges to actively manage civil cases; and WHEREAS, the Okaloosa County Clerk of the Court (the “Clerk”) reopens cases when a party submits a post-judgment pleading, motion, or other filing; and WHEREAS, many such reopened cases have been inactive for substantial periods of time; and WHEREAS, many filings in reopened cases have been abandoned by the parties or are otherwise moot; and WHEREAS, for case management and accurate reporting of the number of cases engaged in active litigation, it is necessary to purge the docket

Official source: 1st Circuit — official site
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 9, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-08 (custody hash match) | prior: benchpath-live-harvest-2026-07-24

Reviewer note: Document sha256: 125a144b0abab3e429c6d109bbc1fdbe0e3d47206570afda3bb0dbb9c2047442 (17489 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. Text layer cleaned 2026-09-08 (Phase 3a): page markers removed; wording untouched. 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. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

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