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3 verbatim requirements on judge preferences.
Twelfth Judicial Circuit — Hearing Officers only. Practices change without notice; the court's own published text controls. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from the published source, captured 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. • There is no requirement that a special Order of Referral must be issued for a case to be heard by the Hearing Officer. • A litigant cannot object to a Hearing Officer hearing an IV-D or Non IV-D case dealing with child support. • If a party desires to contest the findings, he or she must file an exception to the Magistrate’s Decision and Recommended Order within the ten days.
There is no requirement that a special Order of Referral must be issued for a case to be heard by the Hearing Officer.
Reviewer note: Source sha256: . Corpus categories: Referral, Objection, Exceptions. Quote status as recorded by the researcher: VERBATIM_FROM_PARSED_OFFICIAL_SOURCE. Published during the 2026-07-24 completeness pass.
Judge Bell caps motions and responses at 5 pages for UMC hearings and 12 pages for special-set hearings.
Judge Alijewicz requires every motion for attorney's fees and/or costs to attach a document detailing time records — no records, no fee award.
Judge Corlew bars informal contact: every communication with the Court must be in writing, filed with the Clerk, with copies furnished to all parties — and no calls to the JA to schedule or cancel UMC.