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7 verbatim mandatory provisions from S-2023-042.
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 court is required to give these proceedings precedence over other pending matters to the extent necessary to ensure that the court reaches a decision within three business days after a petition is filed. • Assignment of Case Immediate ly upon filing, the Clerk of the Circ u it Court (clerk) will assign the petition to Juvenile Dependency Specialty Division "V." If the judge assigned to Juvenile Dependency Specialty Division "V" is unable to consider the petition and conduct a hearing with in the time limits provided by l aw , the judge or that judge 's judicial -- 1 of 4 -- assistant must immediately notify the clerk. • The duty judge assigned for that day will consider the petition, conduct an informal hearing , and issue a ruling on the petition within the time limits provided by law even if the duty judge must conduct the hearing and issue a ruling after the duty judge 's duty week concludes. 3. • In accordance with Florida Rule of Juvenile Procedure 8.815, the judge must , if requested by the minor, provide counsel for the minor at least 24 hours before the hearing . 5 . • The court must rule and i ss ue written findings of fact and conclusions of law (see Florida Rule of Juvenile Procedure Forms 8.990 and 8 .991) within three business days from the time the petition is filed, except that the three business day limitation may be extended at the request of the petitioner. • If the court fails to rule within the three business day period and an extension has not been requested, the petitioner may immediately petition for a hearing upon the expiration of the three business day period to the chief judge who will ensure a hearing is held within 48 hours after receipt of the minor's petition and an order is entered within 24 hours after the hearing. 6. • As provided by Rule 8 .835(b), the court file must be sealed unless otherwise ordered by the court.
The court is required to give these proceedings precedence over other pending matters to the extent necessary to ensure that the court reaches a decision within three business days after a petition is filed.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 170af480c59ca42ddc68da151b1d668f024775d8893766b845d2109c7998654a (742832 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.
Judge Shull requires ALL motions set for special-set hearing to go to mediation before the hearing is held.
Judge Burkhart will not schedule a temporary-relief hearing until mediation has been held ON the temporary relief sought — mediation first, hearing second.
Judge Sharrit refers ALL cases to mediation (exceptions only by leave) and openly encourages Special Magistrates under Rule 1.490(b) to beat the hearing-time bottleneck.