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17 verbatim mandatory provisions from S-2026-028.
Thirteenth Judicial Circuit. Check the order's own effective and rescission dates before relying on it. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
• Prior to transferring any matter from a standard juvenile dependency division to Juvenile Dependency Specialty Division "V" in accordance with this provision, the affected presiding judges must consult with each other. • Form Every motion, petition or other document must have the name of the court, uniform case number, and division letter for the child or children, and must be styled in accordance with Florida Rule of Juvenile Procedure 8.220. • Notices of Hearing Every notice of hearing must state the length of time reserved on the judge's calendar for the hearing and specify which matters are to be heard. • Notices of hearing specifying that the hearing is on "all pending motions" will not be accepted for filing. • Consultation with Opposing Counsel or Party Unless the presiding judge directs otherwise, prior to submitting a proposed order for the court's consideration after a hearing, the attorney or self-represented litigant submitting the proposed order must consult with opposing counsel or the opposing self-represented litigant within five days after the court's decision and make a genuine effort to agree on the language of the proposed order. • Objections If, after consultation with opposing counsel or the opposing self-represented litigant, the parties cannot agree on the language in the proposed order or judgment to be submitted to the court, then the attorney or self-represented litigant submitting the proposed order or judgment must document in a cover letter that the opposing party or counsel has registered an objection and specifically state what the objection is. • At the time the cover letter and proposed order or judgment are submitted to the court, copies must simultaneously be sent to all parties or their attorneys. • Format All proposed orders and judgments submitted through the Portal must be in in Portable Document Format (PDF) or PDF/A (Portable Document Format for Archiving) unless specifically directed otherwise by the court so that the court may make specific findings of fact or conclusions of law. • Paper Copies If any party is represented by an attorney who has been excused from e-mail service by the court under Rule 2.516, the movant's attorney must submit to the presiding judge sufficient paper copies of the proposed order along with stamped, addressed envelopes. • Opposed Proposed Orders and Judgments When a proposed order or judgment has not been agreed to, the proposed order or judgment must be served on all other parties and submitted to the judicial assistant by United States Mail, courier delivery service, or hand delivery. • Sufficient conformed copies of the proposed order or judgment along with stamped, addressed envelopes must also be submitted to the judicial assistant. • The proposed order or judgment must include a cover letter indicating the specific objection(s) of all other parties and a copy of the other party's proposed order or judgment, if available. • If a copy of the other party's proposed order or judgment is not available at the time the proposed order or judgment is submitted to the court, the other party must submit a copy of their proposed order or judgment along with a cover letter within five business days after the other party submitted the original opposed proposed order or final judgment to the court. • Title All proposed orders and judgments submitted to the judges must contain, in the title of the order, the exact nature of the court's ruling and must fairly apprise the reader of the action being ordered. • Every proposed order and judgment must also contain the name of the court, uniform case number, and division letter for the child or children, and be styled in accordance with Florida Rule of Juvenile Procedure 8.220. • All motions for continuance of a hearing will be filed and heard prior to the scheduled hearing date. • Professional Conduct and Courtroom Decorum Counsel must adhere to The Florida Bar's Guidelines for Professional Conduct, The Florida Bar's Professionalism Expectations, and the Hillsborough County Bar Association's Standards of Professional Courtesy. Each judge may announce and enforce additional requirements, or may excuse compliance with any provision(s) of the Guidelines, Expectations, or Standards as that judge deems appropriate.
Prior to transferring any matter from a standard juvenile dependency division to Juvenile Dependency Specialty Division "V" in accordance with this provision, the affected presiding judges must consult with each other.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: c5d17c5495e802484152d7c3a1f783d78a30ece9fbf7b4dde5bc2b44e0635f1a (4914734 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. Text layer cleaned 2026-09-08 (Phase 3a): page markers removed; wording untouched. Text layer cleaned 2026-09-08 (Phase 3e): running page headers/footers removed; wording untouched. Text layer cleaned 2026-09-08 (Phase 3g): 2 kerning-split words rejoined; wording untouched. Text recomposed 2026-09-08 (Phase 3i): read against the official print through the vision lane, or restored from unambiguous typographic artifacts of the text layer; wording unchanged. 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]
4 verbatim requirements on hearings.
2 verbatim requirements on hearing time in LAUREN N. PEFFER's division.