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18 verbatim mandatory provisions from S-1999-081.
Thirteenth Judicial Circuit. Check the order's own effective and rescission dates before relying on it. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
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. • The following procedures shall apply to visitations and depositions conducted at the Children's Advocacy Center: • Prior to visitation, a standard fee in the amount of $20.00, or as determined by the assigned judge or general master, will be paid by both or one of the parties to the visitation, as determined by the assigned judge or general master. • Such fees shall be collected at the time of intake at the Children' s Advocacy Center by personnel of the Children' s Advocacy Center in the form of a cashier check, money order or personal check. 2. • The failure to appear for a scheduled visitation, absent twenty-four (24) hours notice to the Children' s Advocacy Center and good cause as determined by the assigned judge or general master, shall result in the imposition of a fine in the amount of $20.00, or in an amount to be determined by the assigned judge or general master, upon the canceling party. • Three (3) consecutive visitation cancellations by the same party, absent a showing of good cause, as determined by the assigned judge or general master, shall result in the imposition of a fine in the minimum amount of $20.00, or an amount to be determined by the assigned judge or general master, upon the canceling party. 1 -- 1 of 4 -- 3. • Counsel upon whom audio and video taping of discovery depositions are mandatorily imposed at the Children' s Advocacy Center facilities shall be charged a fee of $60.00 per case. • An additional $10.00 fee shall be imposed, upon request for and provision of the audio recording. • The videotaping or digital electronic recording functions taken of depositions at the Children' s Advocacy Center shall be conducted pursuant to the procedures outlined in Administrative Order S-1999-040. 6. • T h e waiver of fees and fines due to a prior determination of indigency shall be governed by the procedures set forth in Administrative Order S-1997-085, relating to Indigency Procedures for Circuit Civil, F amily Law, Probate, Guardianship, Trust, Mental Health and County Civil Divisions. 7. • The Children' s Advocacy Center shall be responsible for generating an Invoice for Payment outlining each party' s portion of the costs of visitation or deposition. • The Clerk of the Circuit Court (hereinafter "clerk" ) shall accept payment, on behalf of the Children' s Advocacy Center, of the amount due from the parties; however, the clerk shall accept payment only in the amount specified on the Invoice for Payment. • All payments made to the clerk shall be accompanied by the Invoice for Payment. 2 -- 2 of 4 -- 8. • The clerk shall receive $2.00 of eac h Children' s Advocacy Center invoice presented for payment to defray the costs inherent in the collection and payment of the fees outlined above. 9. • Funds including, but not limited to, the aforementioned fees and fines payed and any monies donated to the Children' s Advocacy Center, shall be forwarded to Hillsborough County for deposit in the Children' s Advocacy Center Fund. • At the end of each month, the clerk shall provide to the Children' s Advocacy Center, on behalf of the chief judge, an accounting of all funds deposited into the Children' s Advocacy Center Fund during the preceding month. 11. • The balance of funds remaining in the Children' s Advocacy Center Fund shall not revert to the Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioner s at the end of each fiscal year. • If at any time activities conducted at the Children' s Advocacy Center are terminated, the balance of the Children' s Advocacy Center Fund shall revert to another child services related court program or fund as designated by the chief judge or the chief judge' s designee on behalf of the Children' s Advocacy Center. 12. • This administrative order shall become effective on any case in which supervised visitation has been ordered on or after October 1, 1999.
The following procedures shall apply to visitations and depositions conducted at the Children's Advocacy Center:
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 9067e226637ae70e780cad6763c2d87a88dc4d8eacbe03f55190fbd2ee67c505 (122985 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.
The 17th Circuit's circuit-wide AI disclosure/certification mandate (Jan 2026, twice amended) was VACATED in its entirety effective June 15, 2026 by Chief Judge Phillips's AO 2026-19-Gen, expressly citing the statewide framework (AOSC26-12; Rule 2.515(d)(2), SC2026-0673). Several division procedure pages still cite the vacated order.
Every circuit-civil case reviewed within 120 days of commencement and assigned a track (complex, streamlined, or general); case management orders required; firm continuance policy; sanctions for missed deadlines. Rescinds AO 21-09.
Circuit-civil hearing-availability standards: motion calendars ~2 weeks from request; 15-30 min special sets within 45-60 days; longer special sets scale.