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6 verbatim mandatory provisions from 07-36-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 & GUARDIANSHIP - FINGERPRINTING OF GUARDIANS _____________________________________________________________________________ In accordance with the authority vested in by the Chief Judge by Rule 2.215, Florida Rules of Judicial Administration, and section 744.3135, Florida Statutes, which provides, in part, that the Court may order guardians and shall require professional guardians to submit, at their own expense, to an investigation of his or her criminal background, it is hereby: • All professional guardians, including employees of the professional guardian with a fiduciary obligation to the ward, shall annually submit a fingerprint card with all other documents required by the Court to complete a credit and criminal background investigation no later than January 15th of each year. 2. • If the fingerprints are not taken at the Moore Justice Center, the Melbourne Courthouse, or the Titusville Courthouse by the designated court deputy for the first two (2) attempts, then the third (3rd) attempt at fingerprinting must be done at the Moore Justice Center, the Melbourne Courthouse, or the Titusville Courthouse by the designated court deputy. 3. • If the proposed guardian, guardian or employee of a professional guardian with a fiduciary obligation to a ward, is advised that his or her fingerprints are not discernible after two (2) cards -- 1 of 2 -- 2 were printed by a designated court deputy at the Moore Justice Center, Melbourne Courthouse, or Titusville Courthouse, or after three (3) attempts with the final attempt by a designated court deputy at the Moore Justice Center, Melbourne Courthouse, or Titusville Courthouse, then the attorney for the proposed guardian or professional guardian shall file a motion to the assigned judge seeking waiver of the fingerprint requirement. • If the waiver only pertains to a specific case, then the judge’s order shall be filed in that case number. • All non-professional guardians, professional guardians, including employees of the professional guardian with a fiduciary obligation to the ward, who are not United States citizens, at the time of fingerprinting by a designated court deputy at the Moore Justice Center, Melbourne Courthouse, or Titusville Courthouse, shall provide proof of his or her authority to be in the United States. 5.
PROBATE & GUARDIANSHIP - FINGERPRINTING OF GUARDIANS _____________________________________________________________________________ In accordance with the authority vested in by the Chief Judge by Rule 2.215, Florida Rules of Judicial Administration, and section 744.3135, Florida Statutes, which provides, in part, that the Court may order guardians and shall require professional guardians to submit, at their own expense, to an investigation of his or her criminal background, it is hereby:
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 5e35036fb3ab893af9da70d2a5c337a6d36cb03347723b9ff1f69a0204f360d8 (88906 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.