12th Cir. — 2016-06.2 RE: REQUIRING MAILING ADDRESSES AND STAMPED ENVELOPES (AMENDED) 2 · BenchPath

12th Cir. — 2016-06.2 RE: REQUIRING MAILING ADDRESSES AND STAMPED ENVELOPES (AMENDED) 2

High confidence· verified August 2, 2026Administrative Orders12th Jud. Cir., 2016-06.2 RE: REQUIRING MAILING ADDRESSES AND STAMPED ENVELOPES (AMENDED) 2 — sha256-hashed 2026-08-02

Summary

3 verbatim requirements from 2016-06.2 RE: REQUIRING MAILING ADDRESSES AND STAMPED ENVELOPES (AMENDED) 2.

Applies to

Twelfth Judicial Circuit (Manatee, Sarasota, DeSoto). Procedural information only; not legal advice.

Requirement

Verbatim from the operative section of https://www.jud12.flcourts.org/Portals/0/AdminOrders/Section02/16-06-2.pdf, harvested 2026-08-02; whitespace normalised only. • Until such time that the Chief Judge determines that the judges, magistrates and hearing officers (hereafter referred to as "the court") in this Circuit will utilize the e-portal ore service to transmit documents to parties, all parties and attorneys shall provide legal mailing addresses on all pleadings, motions, notices, affidavits, memoranda oflaw, . orders, judgments and all other paperwork submitted to the court. Paperwork received by the court that contains only email addresses and not mailing addresses may be rejected. • Parties must consult and comply with the particular judge's, magistrate's, or hearing officer's requirements for submitting courtesy copies of paperwork (including notices of hearing, motions, affidavits, memoranda of law, and case law) to their offices in advance of a hearing. • Additionally, unless otherwise ordered by the court, all parties and attorneys submitting proposed orders or judgments to the court must provide the court with a sufficient number of copies to be conformed and sufficient stamped, addressed envelopes for service of the order or judgment to all parties by US Mail. Failure to comply may result in the court rejecting the proposed order or judgment or holding the proposed order or judgment until such time as sufficient copies and envelopes are provided. 1 HARLES E. WILLIAMS, CHIEF JUDGE TWELFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT STATE OF FLORIDA Distribution to: Original -- Clerk of Court, Sarasota County Copies to: All Circuit and County Judges, Twelfth Judicial Circuit All Magistrates, Twelfth Judicial Circuit Manate·e County Clerk of Court Desoto County Clerk of Court Walt Smith, Trial Court Administrator Sarasota County Bar Association Manatee County Bar Association 2

Source of truth

Until such time that the Chief Judge determines that the judges, magistrates and hearing officers (hereafter referred to as "the court") in this Circuit will utilize the e-portal ore service to transmit documents to parties, all parties and attorneys shall provide legal mailing addresses on all pleadings, motions, notices, affidavits, memoranda oflaw, . orders, judgments and all other paperwork submitted to the court. Paperwork received by the court that contains only email addresses and not mailing addresses may be rejected.

Official source: 12th Circuit — Administrative Orders (all on one page)
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Last verified: August 2, 2026benchpath-12th-2026-08-02

Reviewer note: PDF sha256: aec09080eca7b0d5e8ed3b8014a6b082d872b461a19c7071ac6730503173f68d. Read from the ORDERED section as numbered paragraphs.

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