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11 verbatim mandatory provisions from ECAD 2016-09 (supercedes ECAD2016-08) Realignment of Family Law Divisions.
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. • This directive shall be effective upon entry and shall apply to all Family Law case filings which commence a new case. 2. • From the effective date and for a period of forty-five (45) days*, Divisions “L,” “M,” and “P” shall be assigned to all of the following case filings: • Adoption Name Change Simplified Dissolution Termination of Parental Rights UIFSA Registration and shall be assigned as follows: • Twenty-five percent (25%) to Division “L” ** Twenty-five percent (25%) to Division “M” ** Fifty percent (50%) to Division “P” ** -- 1 of 4 -- ** These assignment percentages are intended as a temporary measure to bring Division “P” to a caseload equivalent to Divisions “L” and “M.” At the end of the forty-five day period* the cases listed in this paragraph shall be assigned as follows until further order of the court: • Petitions for injunctions against dating violence, repeat violence, domestic violence, sexual violence, and stalking shall be assigned as follows: • All pro se case filings shall be assigned to Divisions “YL,” “YM,” “YP,” “SL,” “SM,” and “SP as follows: • Division “P” shall preside over any “YP” or “SP” pro se case in which either party objects to the assignment of the case to the Magistrate. 7. • Division “III” shall preside over any “YL,” “YM,” “SL,” or “SM” pro se case in -- 2 of 4 -- which either party objects to the assignment of the case to the Magistrate. 8. • From the effective date and for a period of forty five (45) days* case filings which commence a new case other than those described in Paragraphs 2, 3, and 4 above shall be assigned as follows: • At the end of the forty-five day period* any Family Law case filings which commence a new case other than those described in Paragraphs 2, 3, and 4 above shall be assigned as follows until further order of the court: • An Order of Referral to General Magistrate shall be entered in all Division “YL,” “YM,” “YP,” “SL,” “SM,” and “SP” cases immediately upon any new Family Law filing or reopening. 10.
This directive shall be effective upon entry and shall apply to all Family Law case filings which commence a new case. 2.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: b083a04c14a35aff8a0751a23d755ace680542adcf3264d1b91394f23a95e0f0 (64103 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.
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