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2 verbatim requirements from Administrative Order Establishing an Early Childhood Court in the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit.
Eighteenth Judicial Circuit (Brevard, Seminole). Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from the operative section of https://flcourts18.org/docs/bre/Brevard-ECC-AO-22-07-B.pdf, harvested 2026-08-02; whitespace normalised only. • Referral Process: Cases are identified and referred to Early Childhood Court in several ways including, but not limited to, review of shelter and/or dependency petitions by judges in the Dependency Division or the Community Coordinator for Early Childhood Court, by referral from an attorney of record for a parent, Department of Children and Families staff, Case Management, and the Guardian ad Litem Program. A referral form must be completed and submitted to the Community Coordinator for Early Childhood Court for consideration. • Permanency Planning: Concurrent planning will be implemented from the beginning of the case with concurrent goals being established, if needed. The Court does not discharge parents from Early Childhood Court if parents are unable to be successfully reunified and will proceed with another permanency goal. If parental rights are terminated, the case will remain in Early Childhood Court with the goal of achieving permanency for the child through adoption or permanent guardianship. If the identified parents elect not to participate or are removed from the Early Childhood Court for any reason, the Clerk and/or court staff shall transfer the case back to the previously assigned Dependency Court division docket for further proceedings.
Referral Process: Cases are identified and referred to Early Childhood Court in several ways including, but not limited to, review of shelter and/or dependency petitions by judges in the Dependency Division or the Community Coordinator for Early Childhood Court, by referral from an attorney of record for a parent, Department of Children and Families staff, Case Management, and the Guardian ad Litem Program. A referral form must be completed and submitted to the Community Coordinator for Early Childhood Court for consideration.
Reviewer note: PDF sha256: c5355d186850d5044562228cd1d47b9c285b76bf7b2c11e9ab3b54e630d66a49. Read from the ORDERED section as numbered paragraphs.
18 verbatim requirements from 5th Jud. Cir., M-2018-65 — sha256-hashed 2026-07-25.
13 verbatim requirements from 5th Jud. Cir., Interpreter Services – English — sha256-hashed 2026-07-25.
25 verbatim mandatory provisions from AO 2022-004.