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4 verbatim mandatory provisions from 04-27-b.
Eighteenth 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. • PROBATE AND GUARDIANSHIP - FILING OF SEPARATE GUARDIANSHIP CASES FOR MULTIPLE INDIVIDUALS IN THE SAME FAMILY _____________________________________________________________________________ WHEREAS, there are occasions in which petitioners in guardianship cases seek to have a guardian appointed for more than one individual in the same family, particularly in cases in which a guardian must be appointed for more than one minor based on facts common to the minors; and WHEREAS, confusion on the part of the Clerk and the Court often results from having multiple wards in a single case because (a) only one of the wards may be the subject of certain motions and orders; • (b) because the wards must often be treated differently because of their individual circumstances; • In those cases in which Petitions for Appointment of a Guardian are filed for more than one member of the same family, a separate petition shall be required for each prospective ward and a separate guardianship file shall be opened for each prospective ward. 2. • Nothing in this order shall preclude or prevent the presiding judge of the guardianship division from coordinating hearings in -- 1 of 2 -- 2 such separately filed cases so that issues common to such cases within a single family can be heard and resolved in a single hearing.
PROBATE AND GUARDIANSHIP - FILING OF SEPARATE GUARDIANSHIP CASES FOR MULTIPLE INDIVIDUALS IN THE SAME FAMILY _____________________________________________________________________________ WHEREAS, there are occasions in which petitioners in guardianship cases seek to have a guardian appointed for more than one individual in the same family, particularly in cases in which a guardian must be appointed for more than one minor based on facts common to the minors; and WHEREAS, confusion on the part of the Clerk and the Court often results from having multiple wards in a single case because (a) only one of the wards may be the subject of certain motions and orders;
Reviewer note: Document sha256: e048ddbca8a70c3afcf336de2a95e442a672a82ea0067e66cd5485b2192ea484 (87883 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.
The Eighteenth Judicial Circuit (Seminole and Brevard) requires cover letters in PDF format and proposed orders in .docx format using DJMCA formatting codes, submitted through the Florida Courts E-Filing Portal.
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