Rule 1 — Hillsborough County, FL · BenchPath

Thirteenth Cir. — Rule 1

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Official rule; awaiting reverification against the current source text. Verify with the clerk, judicial assistant, or official court website before relying on it.

Summary

1 verbatim mandatory provision from Rule 1.

Applies to

Thirteenth Judicial Circuit. Check the order's own effective and rescission dates before relying on it. Procedural information only; not legal advice.

Requirement

• Amendments to the Florida Family Law Rules of Procedure, 132 So. 3d 1114 (Fla. 2014), and its predecessor cases1, all related family cases must be handled before one judge unless impractical.

Source of truth

Amendments to the Florida Family Law Rules of Procedure, 132 So. 3d 1114 (Fla. 2014), and its predecessor cases1, all related family cases must be handled before one judge unless impractical.

Official source: 13th Cir. — Hearing Officers directory
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 9, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-08 (custody hash match) | prior: benchpath-live-harvest-2026-07-24

Reviewer note: Document sha256: edf53ce0c5cce442d11daaf03166f8706f0ac5787512b79fdb7b21b80209da09 (838298 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. | Set to in_review 2026-07-26: the order's subject looks practitioner-facing but the extracted text captured only recitals or an effective date, not the operative ORDERED section. This is an extraction defect, not a judgement that the order is unimportant — it needs re-extraction before it goes back on the published surface. | Re-extraction 2026-07-26: the operative section was located, but every paragraph in it is OCR of a scanned typescript too corrupt to quote verbatim. No requirement is published from it. The order remains held and sha256-hashed as a source document. PUBLISHED 2026-09-02 (July-hold adjudication by full text): Local Rule 1's operative one-judge requirement for related family cases, verbatim from the rule's text layer. 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]

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