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8 verbatim mandatory provisions from AO1984-21: Child And Sexual Abuse Victims & Interviews Of Young Victims.
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. • JUVENILE FAMILY LAW MISCELLANEOUS CHILD AND SEXUAL ABUSE VICTIMS - INTERVIEWS OF YOUNG VICTIMS This order is issued pursuant to the provisions of Section 7, Chapter 84-86, Laws of Florida, requiring the chief judge to provide by order reasonable limits on the number of interviews that young victims of child abuse must submit to for law enforcement or discovery purposes. • This order shall apply to the investigation and prosecution of all cases of child abuse under Sections 794.011, 800.04, 827.03 and 827.04 and Chapter 39, Florida Statutes, when the victim is under the age of sixteen years at the time the interviews are sought. “Interview” for the purposes of this order means any procedure in which the victim is required to provide a detailed account or demonstration of the nature and circumstances of the abuse, but does not include: a history obtained for the purposes of medical or psychological diagnosis or treatment; an initial contact with the victim by law enforcement or the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services to assess the validity of the complaint or need to take protective measures on behalf of the victim. • No victim of child abuse who falls within the age guideline of this order shall be required to submit to more than three interviews in the course of investigation and prosecution of an episode of child abuse, except upon order of court as provided below. 2. • Interested parties or agencies shall make every effort to gain all necessary information in the course of the same interview. -- 1 of 2 -- 4. • Interviews shall be conducted in a setting and manner intended to minimize the traumatic effects of the interview of the victim. 5. • When more than one party or agency participates in a single interview, the interview will be conducted by a single person who shall address the concerns of all parties in the course of the interview. 6. • Additional interviews shall be allowed only by order of court upon motion for good cause shown. • Additional interviews shall be limited in scope to assure minimal impact on the victim.
JUVENILE FAMILY LAW MISCELLANEOUS CHILD AND SEXUAL ABUSE VICTIMS - INTERVIEWS OF YOUNG VICTIMS This order is issued pursuant to the provisions of Section 7, Chapter 84-86, Laws of Florida, requiring the chief judge to provide by order reasonable limits on the number of interviews that young victims of child abuse must submit to for law enforcement or discovery purposes.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: f9c46569c59de2a54828dfbe7d17aee2ee1be7d0d1ff7d747c6a5321563b5381 (58053 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.
Every party setting a hearing in Division AO must first confer in a good-faith effort to resolve the matter, and every hearing notice must include a certificate of that conferral. The division instructions state that conferral requires counsel to actually talk.
Under the 2025 case-management amendments, a movant must confer with the opposing party in a good-faith effort to resolve a nondispositive motion before filing it, and must include a certificate of conferral.
CV-E layers a second conferral on top of Rule 1.202: certify conferral before filing the motion (Exhibit A) and again before scheduling it for hearing (Exhibit B).