1 verbatim mandatory provision from ECAD2016-06 (Vacates ECFLAD2005-02) Time Period for Obtaining Domestic Violence Injunctions (Escambia County).
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. • THE ESCAMBIA COUNTY CLERK OF CIRCUIT COURT AND COMPTROLLER - TIME PERIOD FOR PROCESSING DOMESTIC, REPEAT, SEXUAL, DATING, AND STALKING INJUNCTIONS IN ESCAMBIA COUNTY WHEREAS, the Court must provide appropriate opportunities for any person who qualifies under the provisions of Ch. 741, Florida Statutes and Ch. 784, Florida Statutes to file a sworn petition for protection against domestic violence, repeat violence, sexual violence, dating violence or stalking; and WHEREAS it is imperative to the orderly administration of justice that the judiciary have adequate time to properly consider and rule upon any sworn petition for domestic, repeat, sexual, dating, and stalking injunction; and WHEREAS it is necessary to establish a time period within which a qualified person may file a sworn petition for protection under the aforementioned statutes in the office of the Clerk of Circuit Court and Comptroller for Escambia County; it is ORDERED that: 1.
THE ESCAMBIA COUNTY CLERK OF CIRCUIT COURT AND COMPTROLLER - TIME PERIOD FOR PROCESSING DOMESTIC, REPEAT, SEXUAL, DATING, AND STALKING INJUNCTIONS IN ESCAMBIA COUNTY WHEREAS, the Court must provide appropriate opportunities for any person who qualifies under the provisions of Ch. 741, Florida Statutes and Ch. 784, Florida Statutes to file a sworn petition for protection against domestic violence, repeat violence, sexual violence, dating violence or stalking; and WHEREAS it is imperative to the orderly administration of justice that the judiciary have adequate time to properly consider and rule upon any sworn petition for domestic, repeat, sexual, dating, and stalking injunction; and WHEREAS it is necessary to establish a time period within which a qualified person may file a sworn petition for protection under the aforementioned statutes in the office of the Clerk of Circuit Court and Co
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 360fb8d539b3f869bd6c2a80eccf5f41a849638a43ef022475af071ddaaa96c0 (61758 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.
The 17th Circuit's circuit-wide AI disclosure/certification mandate (Jan 2026, twice amended) was VACATED in its entirety effective June 15, 2026 by Chief Judge Phillips's AO 2026-19-Gen, expressly citing the statewide framework (AOSC26-12; Rule 2.515(d)(2), SC2026-0673). Several division procedure pages still cite the vacated order.
Every circuit-civil case reviewed within 120 days of commencement and assigned a track (complex, streamlined, or general); case management orders required; firm continuance policy; sanctions for missed deadlines. Rescinds AO 21-09.
Circuit-civil hearing-availability standards: motion calendars ~2 weeks from request; 15-30 min special sets within 45-60 days; longer special sets scale.