Hearing Officers: Judge preferences — DeSoto County, FL · BenchPath

Twelfth Cir. — Hearing Officers: Judge preferences

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Judge PreferencesTwelfth Judicial Circuit, Hearing Officers & Magistrates (pp. HTML) — captured and sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Summary

3 verbatim requirements on judge preferences.

Applies to

Twelfth Judicial Circuit — Hearing Officers only. Practices change without notice; the court's own published text controls. Procedural information only; not legal advice.

Requirement

• 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.

Source of truth

There is no requirement that a special Order of Referral must be issued for a case to be heard by the Hearing Officer.

Official source: 12th Circuit — Judge & JA telephone roster (print view)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 9, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-08 (live text containment) | prior: benchpath-completeness-2026-07-24

Provenance record

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. Verbatim from the published source, captured 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

Child Support

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