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11 verbatim mandatory provisions from OCAD 2009-06 Time Requirements (Probate).
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. • TIME REQUIREMENTS WHEREAS, Rule 2.545(b) of the Florida Rules of Judicial Administration provides that “...the trial judge shall take charge of all cases at an early state in the litigation and shall control the progress of the case thereafter until the case is determined...,” and WHEREAS, the Florida Supreme Court prescribed time standards within which to dispose of probate matters, and WHEREAS, the time standard for estate case pursuant to Florida Rules of Judicial Administration 2.250(d) is as follows: • Counsel and personal representative SHALL adhere to the time requirements contained hereby in order to properly distribute and discharge this estate. 2. • Counsel SHALL file a motion for an extension of time and a proposed order thereon in the event that the time requirements set forth herein cannot be filed in a timely manner. • Failure to file a motion for an extension of time prior to the expiration of these time requirements SHALL result in the issuance of an ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE as why counsel and/or personal representative shall not be found in contempt of court for violation of this order and for failure to timely file the required documents. 3. • All times shall be measured from the issuance of the Letters of Administration. • (A) NOTICE TO ADMINISTRATION/NOTICE TO CREDITORS (whichever applies) shall be published as soon as practical. • (D) NOTICE OF DUE DATE FOR FEDERAL ESTATE TAX RETURN shall be filed within twelve (12) months (where one is required). • (E) PETITION FOR DISCHARGE shall be filed within twelve (12) months unless the will is contested or a federal estate state tax return is required in which case the petition shall be filed within twenty-four (24) months. 4. • All papers necessary for discharge SHALL be filed no later than the Petition for Discharge. 5. • Counsel SHALL familiarize themselves with Florida Rules of Probate Rule 5.030 which provides in part: “An attorney of record for an interested person in a proceeding governed by these rules shall be the attorney of record in all other proceedings in the administration of the same estate or guardianship, except services or process in an independent action on a claim...” “An attorney of record may withdraw or limit his appearance with approval of the court after filing a motion setting forth his reasons and serving a copy of this client and interested persons.” 6. • The Clerk SHALL provide copies of this order to each attorney of record and personal representative in each probate action filed in the Circuit Court in and for Okaloosa County, Florida.
TIME REQUIREMENTS WHEREAS, Rule 2.545(b) of the Florida Rules of Judicial Administration provides that “...the trial judge shall take charge of all cases at an early state in the litigation and shall control the progress of the case thereafter until the case is determined...,” and WHEREAS, the Florida Supreme Court prescribed time standards within which to dispose of probate matters, and WHEREAS, the time standard for estate case pursuant to Florida Rules of Judicial Administration 2.250(d) is as follows:
Reviewer note: Document sha256: f957be8e3bcfa96b68f30efdaeb0e224a9314acb3d8007cc1852657deba9374d (56052 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.
Division AO requires proposed orders to be submitted in Word format through the 15th Circuit Online Services System. Orders submitted online do not need a date or signature line.
3 verbatim requirements published by Palm Beach Division M on proposed orders & online scheduling.
When counsel is asked to prepare an order after a hearing, it must be drafted and circulated to opposing counsel within three working days and submitted to the Court within seven days of the hearing.