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17 verbatim mandatory provisions from OCAD 2023-12 Procedure regarding the Referral of Cases to the General Magistrate, Vacates OCAD2023-10.
First Judicial Circuit. Check the order's own effective and rescission dates before relying on it. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
• The administrative policies and procedures herein, shall be effective August 23, 2023. 2. • All referrals to the General Magistrate shall be made as set forth herein. • Additionally, all referrals currently pending before the General Magistrate shall be re- referred to John K. • All of the following matters shall be handled by the General Magistrate: a. • Under the direction of any Judge assigned to the handle Mental Health matters, the General Magistrate shall hear all matters arising from the Baker and Marchman Act proceedings in Okaloosa County, Florida. 6. • Under the direction of any Judge assigned to handle Dependency Cases, the General Magistrate shall supervise and review Dependency Drug Court. 7. • Appointed as the Child Support Enforcement Hearing Officer, the General Magistrate shall hear all child support enforcement matters pursuant to the provisions set forth in the Administrative Orders regarding those enforcement hearings at the Okaloosa County Courthouse, located in Crestview, Florida. • Additionally, the General Magistrate shall hear any Child Support Enforcement Hearing in which the Hearing Officer has recused him or herself or has been disqualified. • Under the direction of any Judge assigned to handle Dependency Cases, the General Magistrate shall supervise, hear, and/or review any initial petitions and/or status review hearings in the Truancy Court. • To maintain the equitable division of cases, individual matters, and other matters as specified in this Administrative Directive, any referral to the General Magistrate shall remain integral to the equitable and efficient division of cases as set forth in Administrative Order 2012-06. • In order to maintain the equitable division of cases and individual matters, any matter other than as specified in this Administrative Directive, shall not be referred to the General Magistrate without prior consultation with and agreement of the Administrative Judge and General Magistrate, in Okaloosa County, Florida. • Financial Affidavits, Florida Family Law Rules of Procedure Form 12.902(b) or (c), shall be filed in accordance with Florida Family Law Rule of Procedure 12.285. • The General Magistrate is authorized to administer oaths and conduct hearings, which may include taking of evidence, and shall file a recommended order that contains findings of fact, conclusions of law, and the name, telephone number and email address of the court reporter, if any. • The General Magistrate shall assign a time for the proceedings as soon as reasonably possible after this referral is made and shall give notice to each of the parties either directly or by directing counsel or a party to file and serve a notice of hearing. Counties within the State of Florida may have different rules. • If either party files a timely objection, this matter shall be returned to the undersigned judge with a notice stating the amount of time needed for hearing. • The filing party in the case shall have the responsibility to serve the other party a copy of this Order and file a Certificate of Compliance stating same has been done with the Clerk of Court within five business days as proof of the service upon the other party. ___________________________________ JD PEACOCK II CLERK OF CIRCUIT COURT By:__________________ Deputy Clerk Exhibit “B” IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR OKALOOSA COUNTY, FLORIDA IN THE INTEREST OF: • The General Magistrate is authorized to administer oaths and conduct hearings, which may include taking of evidence, and shall file a report and recommendations that contain findings of fact, conclusions of law, and the name of the court reporter, if any.
The administrative policies and procedures herein, shall be effective August 23, 2023. 2.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: cda67366e2247c7edd5d05762ef912330bea95c42b5a5da370c2070ec143429d (149196 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. Text layer cleaned 2026-09-08 (Phase 3f): page headers/footers, ligatures and letter-spaced headings normalised; 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]
4 verbatim requirements on hearings.
2 verbatim requirements on hearing time in LAUREN N. PEFFER's division.