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15 verbatim mandatory provisions from S-2025-006.
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. • Contemporaneous with the filing of any post -judgment family law matter, the party filing the matter must file and serve on all parties Page 3 of 9 - Administrative Order S-2025 - 006 (General Magistrates and Child Support Enforcement Hearing Officers in the Family Law Division) -- 3 of 13 -- either (1) a Motion for Referral to General Magistrate, or (2) an Objection to Referral to General Magistrate. • When motions concerning discovery, continuances, or withdrawal of counsel relate to a matter referred to and pending before the general magistrate, such motions must be set before and heard by the general magistrate without further order of referral by the court. • Hard Copies and Envelopes - Self-Represented Party or Party's Attorney Excused from E- Service In the absence of an Objection to Referral to General Magistrate, if any party is self-represented or represented by an attorney who has been excused from e-mail service by the court under Rule 2.516, the self-represented party or attorney who filed the post-judgment family law matter must submit to the presiding judge stamped, addressed envelopes for conformed copies of an order of referral to be mailed. • Objection to Referral Any objection to a referral, in accordance with Florida Family Law Rule of Procedure 12.490(b), must be in writing and filed within 10 days of the date of service of the order of referral. • When a case is referred to a general magistrate , and there is no objection to the referral, the action must be set for hearing before the assigned magistrate in the manner prescribed in the referral order . • Recommended Order The general magistrate must submit a recommended order to the court that includes findings of fact and conclusions of law in accordance with Florida Family Law Rule of Procedure 12.490(e) . • Unlike referral of matters to a general magistrate which requires the consent of all parties, referral of matters to the child support enforcement hearing officers under Rule 12.491 does not require the consent of any party and therefore a Page 5 of 9 - Administrative Order S-2025-006 (General Magistrates and Child Support Enforcement Hearing Officers in the Family Law Division) -- 5 of 13 -- party may not lodge any objection to the referral. 7. • Recognizing the need for expediency, if the court is attending to other judicial matters the court must recess as soon as is practicable and immediately review the magistrate's or hearing office r's recommended order. • If the court determines that a hearing before the court is necessary, the matter will be scheduled on an emergency basis and must be heard immediately. • If the general magistrate or hearing officer assigned to Division "GM-1" serves a Notice of Recusal, the case is automatically reassigned to and must be rescheduled with Division "GM-3." If the general magistrate or hearing officer assigned to Division "GM-3" serves a Notice of Recusal, the case is automatically reassigned to and must be rescheduled with Division " GM-4 ." If the general magistrate or hearing officer assigned to Division "GM-4" serves a Notice of Recusal , the case is automatically reassigned to and must be rescheduled with Division "GM-5." If the general magistrate or hearing officer assigned to Division "GM -5 " serves a Notice of Recusal, the case is automatically reassigned to and must be rescheduled with Division "GM-1." B. • Judicial Determination of Motion's Legal Sufficiency If a party files with the clerk and serves on the other party and on the presiding general magistrate or chi ld support enforcement hearing officer a motion to disqualify the general magistrate or hearing officer, the general magistrate or hearing officer must immediately arrange for the motion to be brought to the attention of the presiding judge . • Time Standards General magistrates will submit a recommended ord er to the assigned judge within 60 days from the date of the hearing. • Child support enforcement hearing officers will submit a recommend ed order to the assigned judge within 60 days from the date of the hearing . • Each general magistrate and child support enforcement hearing officer will maintain a log of cases under advisement and must submit a bi-monthly memorandum to the a ssociate administrative judge of the Family Law Division detailing any and all cases that have been held under advisement for more than 60 days. • General magistrates and child support enforcement hearing officers must not maintain a case under advisement for more than 90 days from the date of the hearing .
Contemporaneous with the filing of any post -judgment family law matter, the party filing the matter must file and serve on all parties Page 3 of 9 - Administrative Order S-2025 - 006 (General Magistrates and Child Support Enforcement Hearing Officers in the Family Law Division) -- 3 of 13 -- either (1) a Motion for Referral to General Magistrate, or (2) an Objection to Referral to General Magistrate.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 6ddf691a671e6a297dadb6cebc51e0e4c69be4c18a2dcfa69c02729c64a9cf49 (7009225 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.
Florida follows the federal summary-judgment standard. The motion must be served at least 40 days before the hearing; the nonmovant's response is due no later than 20 days before the hearing.
How Florida procedural deadlines are computed: exclude the trigger day; count every day for periods of 7 days or more; for periods under 7 days, skip intermediate weekends and legal holidays; roll forward when the last day is a weekend or holiday.
Judge Siperstein requires every motion to be set within 5 days of filing and heard within 60 days, or it may be deemed abandoned.