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30 verbatim mandatory provisions from ECAD 2026-01 Family Law PreTrial Standing Orders.
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. • Pursuant to Florida Statute §61.21(4)(a), all parties to a dissolution of marriage proceeding with minor children or a paternity action that involves issues of parental responsibility shall complete the Parent Education and Family Stabilization Course before the entry of a final judgment. • In all Dissolution of Marriage cases, the attached “Family Law Standing Pretrial Order for Dissolution of Marriage Cases” shall be entered, and all parties shall abide by it. 2. • In all Dissolution of Marriage cases involving children, Paternity cases, and Time- Sharing cases, the attached “Order to Attend Department of Children and Families Approved Parent Education and Stabilization Course” shall be entered, and all parties shall abide by it. 3. • The petitioner shall serve the attached orders with the Summons and the Petition. • FAMILY LAW STANDING PRETRIAL ORDER FOR DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE CASES The following Family Law Standing Pretrial Order ("Order") shall apply to both parties in all cases for Dissolution of Marriage. • Service of this Order shall be made with service of process of a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage and shall be effective as to the Petitioner upon filing of the petition, and as to the Respondent upon service of the summons and Petition for Dissolution of Marriage or upon waiver and acceptance of service. • This Order shall remain in place during the pendency of this action unless modified, terminated, or amended by further order of the Court. 2. • All parties to a Dissolution of Marriage case must abide by the following: • Neither party shall sell, transfer, encumber, conceal, assign, remove or in any way dispose of, without the consent of the other in writing, or without an order of the Court, any disputed property, individually or jointly held by parties, except in the usual course of business, for customary and usual household expenses or for reasonable attorney's fees and costs in connection with this action. • Neither party shall incur any unreasonable or unnecessary debts, including but not limited to, further borrowing against any credit line secured by the family residence, further encumbering any assets, or unreasonable use of credit cards or cash advances against credit or bank cards. • Each party who has traditionally paid the following: life insurance, automobile insurance, homeowner's or renter's insurance policies, shall continue to maintain same and keep in full force and effect. • Neither party shall change the beneficiaries of any existing life insurance policies. • Neither party shall remove the other party of the marriage from any medical, hospital, and/or dental insurance coverage, and each party shall maintain the existing medical, hospital, and dental insurance coverage in full force and effect. 3. • All parties to a dissolution of marriage action involving minor child(ren) common to the parties must abide by the following: • Neither party shall remove, nor permit the removal of any minor children from their current county of residence for residential purposes without the written agreement of both parties or an order of this Court. • This means the parents must confer with each other and agree upon all parenting decisions. -- 3 of 8 -- D. • For cases in which child abuse and/or neglect is alleged by a party against the other parent, that party shall promptly file the appropriate pleadings with the Court to seek immediate relief from this Order. • Parents must separate any bad feeling for one another from their duties as parents. • Children must be free to draw their own conclusions about each parent, without the prejudicial influences of the other parent. 4. • The children's school attendance zone shall be where he/she has customarily attended unless neither party resides in that zone. • If the children have not attended school anywhere (grades K-12) at the time of filing, then the children shall attend the school in the district in which the parties last resided together as a family unit for at least 60 days. • In the event neither party resides in the same school attendance zone, then the children shall attend school in the zone in which he/she has primarily resided for the 60 days preceding the start of school. • Therefore, to avoid building up an arrearage in child support, the parent with whom the children are not residing the majority of the time must make voluntary payments of child support to the parent the children reside with the majority of the time prior to the entry of an order requiring payment of support. • Neither party shall remove the children or allow the children to be removed from any medical, hospital, and/or dental insurance coverage, and each party shall maintain the existing medical, hospital, and dental insurance coverage in full force and effect. • If the parties have children, a party moving out of the family residence shall notify the other party or the other party's attorney, in writing, within 48 hours of the move, of an address and telephone number where the relocated party can receive communication. • If you wish to modify this Order, you must file an appropriate motion with the Clerk's Office. • ORDER TO ATTEND THE DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES APPROVED PARENT EDUCATION AND STABILIZATION COURSE The following Family Law Order to Attend Department of Children and Families Approved Parent Education and Stabilization Class shall apply to both parties in all cases involving: • Each of the parties shall attend and successfully complete one of the Department of Children and Families approved Parent Education and Family Stabilization Courses, either in person, by correspondence, or online, at their own expense. • The parties shall attend the course in its entirety no later than 45 days from the date of this order. 3. • Each party shall file proof of satisfactory completion with the Court within 60 days of the date of this order.
Pursuant to Florida Statute §61.21(4)(a), all parties to a dissolution of marriage proceeding with minor children or a paternity action that involves issues of parental responsibility shall complete the Parent Education and Family Stabilization Course before the entry of a final judgment.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: a7f9c49d0c14a745939fefe5cf12f0351885958765badde7c910aeea106b3d78 (189749 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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