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18 verbatim mandatory provisions from 04-48.
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. • DOMESTIC VIOLENCE - PROCEDURE FOR ORDERS TO SHOW CAUSE AND PROSECUTION OF VIOLATIONS OF INJUNCTIONS FOR PROTECTION (DOMESTIC, REPEAT, SEXUAL AND DATING VIOLENCE) ______________________________________________________________________ WHEREAS, it is the intent of the legislature as expressed in Section 741.2901, 741.2902, 741.30, and 741.31, 784.046, and 784.047 Florida Statutes, that criminal prosecution shall be the favored method of enforcing compliance with injunctions for protection against domestic violence; and WHEREAS, the legislature acknowledges the Court’s inherent right to enforce compliance with injunctions for protection against domestic violence through indirect criminal contempt; and WHEREAS, the legislature directs the Court, the Clerk of the Circuit Court, and the State Attorney to develop procedures for the receipt and processing of violations of injunctions for protection against domestic, repeat, sexual, and dating violence, it has become necessary to review and revise existing procedures to conform with these new laws: • The following additional criminal conditions apply to domestic violence injunctions only: f) Going to, or being within 500 feet of the petitioner’s residence, school, place of employment, or a specified place frequented regularly by the petitioner and any named family or household member; g) Knowingly and intentionally coming within 100 feet of the petitioner’s motor vehicle, whether or not that vehicle is occupied; h) Defacing or destroying the petitioner’s personal property, including the petitioner’s motor vehicle; or i) Refusing to surrender firearms or ammunition if ordered to do so by the court. • The victim shall be advised on the said form that if an arrest has not been made, the complaint filed with the Clerk alleging any of these violations will be referred to the local law enforcement agency where the acts are alleged to have occurred so the allegations can be investigated as a crime. • The affidavit shall immediately be forwarded to the State Attorney (along with a copy of the injunction) and the assigned judge. • The affidavit and injunction shall also be forwarded to the appropriate law enforcement agency for investigation. • No later than twenty (20) days after receiving the initial report, the local law enforcement agency shall complete their investigation and forward the report to the State Attorney. 3. • Upon receipt of the affidavit, the State Attorney shall determine within thirty (30) working days whether it will proceed to file criminal charges, or prepare a motion for order to show cause as to why the respondent should not be held in criminal contempt, or prepare both as alternative findings, or file notice that the case remains under investigation or is pending subject to some other action. 4. • Should the State Attorney determine that indirect criminal contempt is the appropriate method of prosecution of any alleged violation of an injunction for protection against domestic violence, it shall prepare and present an Order to Show Cause to the Court for its further review and action. 5. • If the State Attorney requests an Order to Show Cause for indirect criminal contempt, the same shall be prepared and presented to the Court for consideration. • On issuance by the Court, arraignment of the respondent on the Order to Show Cause shall be on the date, time, and place ordered by the judge in the Order to Show Cause. 6. • The hearing on the Order to Show Cause for indirect criminal contempt shall be on the date, time, and place ordered by the Court at the arraignment when the respondent enters a plea of not guilty. • The court shall give due consideration to the existing schedules of the State Attorney, Public Defender, and/or private attorney in establishing a date and time for the trial. 7. • The clerk shall provide a separate affidavit form for allegations of civil contempt so that these civil issues may promptly be reviewed by the court. • However, the clerk shall also provide the court with a copy of any pending affidavit for criminal contempt or arrest form for violation of injunction so that the court will be informed of any pending review of criminal allegations by the State Attorney. • The clerk shall forward the affidavit for civil contempt to the assigned judge. • Any subsequent hearing for civil contempt shall be scheduled by the assigned judge. 9. • The State Attorney’s Office shall not be involved in matters of Civil Contempt and the Public Defender’s Office shall not be appointed. 10. • Nothing in this Order shall prevent a judge from treating any alleged violation of Injunction for Protection against Domestic Violence as a Civil Contempt Motion, or from initiating an Order to Show Cause for indirect Criminal Contempt.
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE - PROCEDURE FOR ORDERS TO SHOW CAUSE AND PROSECUTION OF VIOLATIONS OF INJUNCTIONS FOR PROTECTION (DOMESTIC, REPEAT, SEXUAL AND DATING VIOLENCE) ______________________________________________________________________ WHEREAS, it is the intent of the legislature as expressed in Section 741.2901, 741.2902, 741.30, and 741.31, 784.046, and 784.047 Florida Statutes, that criminal prosecution shall be the favored method of enforcing compliance with injunctions for protection against domestic violence; and WHEREAS, the legislature acknowledges the Court’s inherent right to enforce compliance with injunctions for protection against domestic violence through indirect criminal contempt; and WHEREAS, the legislature directs the Court, the Clerk of the Circuit Court, and the State Attorney to develop procedures for the receipt and processing of violations of injunctions for protecti
Reviewer note: Document sha256: e37eeae106fc866a76ad1ca45aca6ac92f6223a48ae78610c5815c72af4cf3af (98678 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 17th Circuit's circuit-wide AI disclosure/certification mandate (Jan 2026, twice amended) was VACATED in its entirety effective June 15, 2026 by Chief Judge Phillips's AO 2026-19-Gen, expressly citing the statewide framework (AOSC26-12; Rule 2.515(d)(2), SC2026-0673). Several division procedure pages still cite the vacated order.
Every circuit-civil case reviewed within 120 days of commencement and assigned a track (complex, streamlined, or general); case management orders required; firm continuance policy; sanctions for missed deadlines. Rescinds AO 21-09.
Circuit-civil hearing-availability standards: motion calendars ~2 weeks from request; 15-30 min special sets within 45-60 days; longer special sets scale.