Loading…
14 verbatim requirements from 20262901172709_Judge-J-Patterson-Family-Law-Procedures-Copy.
Fourteenth Judicial Circuit (Bay, Calhoun, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Washington). Procedural information only; not legal advice.
• DO NOT call the Judge’s office to request hearing time. • Only email the judicial assistant to request dates and confirm the hearing date. DO NOT include the judicial assistant in email chains between counsel and/or staff to clear dates (or anything else). • DO NOT file a notice of hearing before receiving confirmation email from the judicial assistant confirming that the hearing has been set. • Additional motions may not be piggybacked on a previously scheduled hearing time without being cleared with the judicial assistant and opposing counsel, and provided sufficient time has been reserved. To add a motion to a previously scheduled hearing, obtain opposing counsel’s consent to the addition, then email the judicial assistant about adding the motion to the hearing. The judicial assistant will confirm the addition of the motion to the hearing time. Do not prepare and file a notice of the added motion until receipt of the judicial assistant’s confirmation. • DO NOT request a case management conference to obtain final hearing dates, unless parties cannot agree on the dates or the amount of time needed. • Only email the judicial assistant to request dates and confirm the final date selected. DO NOT include judicial assistant in email chains between counsel and/or staff to clear dates (or anything else). • All counsel and parties attending a hearing shall do so using video, unless video is impossible. • So that hearings can promptly start, please log into the Zoom video conference at least five (5) minutes before the hearing start time. The judge will admit you to the hearing from the waiting room. DO NOT disconnect from Zoom just because you may not be admitted right at the hearing time. • All proposed orders must be submitted via the e-filing portal. • Only the cover letter and proposed order should be submitted via the e-filing portal. Copies of motion, responses, exhibits, case law or other items should not be included with the cover letter or uploaded in the e-filing portal (see Submission of Hearing Materials, infra). The only exception to exclusion of other items pertains to the attachments or appendices that need to be attached to the order, in which case counsel shall either attach such to the order or upload as a judicial exhibit the attachment or appendix to attach to the pretrial stip. • All proposed orders must be submitted in Word format. Counsel and parties preparing orders are directed to remove any hidden formatting or codes. Failure to remove hidden formatting may result in the order being rejected. • All proposed orders must be in DJCMA format (see #6 & 7 below), but counsel/parties are directed to omit the service portion for the judicial assistant to sign and certify service of the order (the M and A portions of the DJCMA format). • Proposed orders do not need to include the addresses or email addresses of recipients of the order at the end. A copy of the signed order will be served on all counsel/parties registered for service via the e-portal. • If the case involves a pro-se party who is not registered to receive filings from the e-portal, the proposed order shall include as the last paragraph (before
DO NOT call the Judge’s office to request hearing time.
Reviewer note: PDF sha256: 954c01479726b3272bd8e15d29ea7458e1a126f8b265dafd7828924c6ae4de03. Read from the ORDERED section as numbered paragraphs. 4 paragraph(s) withheld as too scan-damaged to quote. Verbatim from the operative section of https://jud14.flcourts.org/uploaded/20262901172709_Judge-J-Patterson-Family-Law-Procedures-Copy.pdf, harvested 2026-08-02; whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]
9 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-10.
6 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-13.