Judge Kathleen McHugh: Judge preferences — Broward County, FL · BenchPath

Seventeenth Cir. — Judge Kathleen McHugh: Judge preferences

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Judge PreferencesSeventeenth Judicial Circuit (pp. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G22OK8oq9OvjinKj_CrPCWuYFgbxhDN_CLcJYAlFITc/edit) — captured and sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Summary

11 verbatim requirements on judge preferences.

Applies to

Seventeenth Judicial Circuit — Judge Kathleen McHugh only. Practices change without notice; the court's own published text controls. Procedural information only; not legal advice.

Source of truth

STEP 4: CONTACT JUDGE McHUGH’S JUDICIAL ASSISTANT, by email (div51@17th.flcourts.org) to request the scheduling of a hearings OVER 30 MINUTES. In the email to the Judicial Assistant, you MUST include our Court case number (not your office case number) and the names of all parties in the subject “re” line. Please send a new email for every hearing request. ALL SPECIAL SET HEARINGS GREATER THAN 30 MINUTES MUST BE COORDINATED WITH THE JUDICIAL ASSISTANT.

Official source: 17th Circuit — Court site corpus (AO archive, local rules, judiciary)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 9, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-08 (live text containment) | prior: benchpath-completeness-2026-07-24

Provenance record

Source sha256: c6e1361ff0d41cdd151a53906018395a64466f124d14b96ff02f3d000ba17a3e. Corpus categories: SPECIAL_SET, CASE_MANAGEMENT, PROPOSED_ORDERS, PAGE_LIMITS. Published during the 2026-07-24 completeness pass. Whitespace repaired 2026-09-09 (fix program 2026-09-09, Phase 5, audit M7): a space restored after the period in 2 sentence join(s) left by the text layer; wording unchanged. Verbatim from the published source, captured 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

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