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19 verbatim mandatory provisions from Judge Duncan Preference Page 2-5-26.
First Judicial Circuit. Check the order's own effective and rescission dates before relying on it. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
• SCHEDULING CIVIL HEARINGS 1 HOUR OR LESS Any motion(s) must be filed and docketed before scheduling hearing time. • You MUST coordinate the hearing with opposing counsel and/or pro se litigant prior to submitting your request. • Efforts to coordinate the hearing must be noted on the Notice of Hearing. Once the coordinated hearing time is submitted, you will receive an automatic email from “First Judicial Circuit of Florida” confirming the hearing date/time/ZOOM information. • HEARINGS OVER 2 HOURS, PLEASE EMAIL Tressie.leatherman@flcourts1.gov NOTICE OF HEARING A COURTESY COPY OF THE NOTICE OF HEARING MUST BE PROVIDED TO THE COURT FOR THE HEARING TO BE COMPLETELY CONFIRMED AND ADDED TO THE CALENDAR. • All the information needed for the Notice of Hearing (NOH) will be provided in the OnceHub automatic email confirmation from “First Judicial Circuit of Florida”, including date/time/ZOOM information. Please note this is a Santa Rosa County case, which is in CT (Central Time Zone), therefore all notices MUST be for CT. • If the scheduled hearing is via ZOOM, the ZOOM information provided in the confirmation MUST be included in the NOH. • All notices of court proceedings to be held in a public facility must contain the statement below in bold face, 14-point Times New Roman or Courier font. • Court Administration, ADA Liaison Santa Rosa County 4025 Avalon Boulevard Milton, FL 32583 Phone (850) 623-3159 Fax (850) 983-0602 ADA.SantaRosa@flcourts1.gov at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711. • A courtesy copy must be provided to the Court and all participants, including any pro se party, and court reporter if one was secured. • Certificate of Good Faith Conference Before filing any motion, except as noted in paragraph c, the moving party shall confer with counsel for the opposing party in a good faith effort to resolve the issues raised by the motion, and the motion shall contain a statement certifying that the moving party has conferred with opposing counsel and that counsel have been unable to agree on the resolution of the motion (the “Certificate”). a. • The certificate shall set forth the date of the conference, the names of the participating attorneys, and the specific results achieved. • It shall be the responsibility of counsel for the movant to arrange for the conference. • No conference, therefore no certificate, is required for appropriate ex-parte motions, uncontested motions, judgment on the pleadings, summary judgment, or other dispositive motions. d. • All proposed orders must include the last paragraph (before DONE and ORDERED) the following statement: • FORECLOSURE CASES All originals documents (i.e.. note and mortgage) must be filed with the Clerk of Courts Prior to scheduling a Motion for Summary Judgment or Non-Jury Trial in a foreclosure case. • Please wait until 1-2 days prior to the hearing to file the proposed Final Judgment. see PROPOSED ORDERS Non-Jury Trials for Foreclosures Once a Notice for Trial is filed, you may schedule via OnceHub. • After scheduling you must e-file a proposed Order Scheduling Non-Jury Trial, including the date/time/ZOOM information provided in the email confirmation. • Please wait until 1-2 days prior to the hearing to file the proposed Final Judgment. see PROPOSED ORDERS TRIALS Setting a Civil Jury/Judge Trial Please file a Notice for Readiness for Trial once the case is ready to be set for a Jury/Judge trial. • All parties must have their calendars available during the Case Management Conference in order to coordinate a trial date.
SCHEDULING CIVIL HEARINGS 1 HOUR OR LESS Any motion(s) must be filed and docketed before scheduling hearing time.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 9c61580c18e11f8f800b00971447d23955da1645290d2e4abff5e415efb8ab95 (498088 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. Text layer cleaned 2026-09-08 (Phase 3a): page markers removed; wording untouched. 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. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]
3 verbatim requirements on remote appearances in CALEB S. JOHNSTON's division.
6 verbatim requirements on remote appearances in MICHAEL G. KAPLAN's division.