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5 verbatim requirements from 2007-10.12 Requirements of Notice of Related Cases in Family Law (Repeals 2006-15.12) 12.
Twelfth Judicial Circuit (Manatee, Sarasota, DeSoto). Procedural information only; not legal advice.
• The Petitioner in a family case shall file with the court a Notice of Related Cases. A related case may be an open or closed civil, criminal . or family case, including, but not limited to, domestic violence, juvenile and dependency matters, in this or any other jurisdiction. A case is related when: a. It involves any of the same parties, children, or issues and it is pending at the time the party files a family case; or b. It affects the court's jurisdiction to proceed; or c. An order in the related case may conflict with an order on the same issues in the new case; or d. An order in the new case may conflict with an order in the earlier litigation. • Pursuant to Fla. R. Jud . Admin. 2.545(d)(2) the Notice of Related Cases shall be filed by the Petitioner in any of the following cases: • Dissolution of marriage; • Annulment; • Support unconnected with dissolution of marriage; • Paternity; • Child support; • UIFSA; • Custodial care of and access to children; • Adoption; • Name change; • Declaratory judgment actions related to premarital, marital, or post-marital; agreements; • Civil domestic violence, repeat violence. dating violence, and sexual violence; injunctions; • Juvenile dependency; • Termination of parental rights; • Juvenile delinquency; • Emancipation of a minor; • CINS/FINS; • Truancy; • Modification and enforcement of orders entered in these cases. • The Petitioner in any family law case filed in the Twelfth Judicial Circuit. shall file a Notice of Related Cases that complies with the requirements of Fla. R. Jud. Admin. 2.545(d). The attached Notice of Related Cases is hereby adopted for use in the Twelfth Judicial Circuit, until the Florida Supreme Court adopts a state-wide form . • A copy of the Instructions for Florida Rule of Judicial Administration 2.545(d) Notice of Related Cases and a form Notice of Related Cases shall be included in all packets of family law forms furnished to self-represented parties and will also be available on the Twelfth Judicial Circuit's website. • The Clerk of Court shall treat the Notice of Related Cases as confidential to the extent required by Florida Statutes and Florida Rules of Court.
The Petitioner in a family case shall file with the court a Notice of Related Cases. A related case may be an open or closed civil, criminal . or family case, including, but not limited to, domestic violence, juvenile and dependency matters, in this or any other jurisdiction. A case is related when: a. It involves any of the same parties, children, or issues and it is pending at the time the party files a family case; or b. It affects the court's jurisdiction to proceed; or c. An order in the related case may conflict with an order on the same issues in the new case; or d. An order in the new case may conflict with an order in the earlier litigation.
Reviewer note: PDF sha256: 0b1b3bebd02ecf0a2e0955de0f3994f498bf7af43561db982e5de7ef43b8bde6. Read from the ORDERED section as numbered paragraphs. Text layer cleaned 2026-09-08 (Phase 3g): 1 kerning-split word rejoined; wording untouched. Verbatim from the operative section of https://www.jud12.flcourts.org/Portals/0/AdminOrders/Section12/07-10-12.pdf, harvested 2026-08-02; whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]
9 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-10.
6 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-13.