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8 verbatim mandatory provisions from AO 2022-20 Administrative Closing of Inactive Reopened Civil Cases, Okaloosa.
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. • 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. -- 2 of 3 -- 7.
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
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.
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.