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14 verbatim mandatory provisions from 15-26.
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. • The Clerk of Court shall assign the Petition Seeking Judicial Waiver of Parental Notice to a circuit judge. • Immediately thereafter, the clerk of court shall forward the petition and court file to the assigned judge. • Petitions shall be assigned to the existing family law and juvenile divisions on a rotating basis. • Petitions shall be assigned to the juvenile divisions on a rotating basis 2. 3 Business-Day Rule: • Proceedings arising out of these petitions shall be given precedence over other pending matters and shall be heard in closed court in a prompt fashion. • The court shall rule and issue written findings of fact and conclusions of law within 3 business days after the petition is filed, except that the 3 business-day limitation may be extended at the request of the minor. • If the court fails to rule within the 3 business-day period and an extension has not been requested, the minor may immediately petition for a hearing upon the expiration of the 3 business-day period to the chief judge of the circuit, who must ensure -- 1 of 2 -- 2 a hearing is held within 48 hours after receipt of the minor’s petition and an order is entered within 24 hours after the hearing. 3. • If a petition is filed between the hours of 12:00 p.m. noon and 5:00 p.m. and the next day falls on a court holiday or a weekend, the clerk of court shall provide the court files to the emergency duty judge immediately. • The clerk shall advise the minor that she has a right to counsel, without cost, at the time the petition is filed. • If the petitioner requests counsel, the court shall appoint counsel for her. 5. • The court file shall be sealed and the minor’s identity shall remain anonymous. • All hearings under this section, including appeals, shall remain confidential and closed to the public, as provided by court rule. 6. • An appellate court must rule within 7 days after receipt of appeal, but a ruling may be remanded with further instruction for a ruling within 3 business days after the remand. • The reason for overturning a ruling on appeal must be based on abuse of discretion by the court and may not be based on the weight of the evidence presented to the circuit court since the proceeding is a nonadversarial proceeding.
The Clerk of Court shall assign the Petition Seeking Judicial Waiver of Parental Notice to a circuit judge.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 0df8de96c9a9818059814cc94fb74380a073965071448eba59416324079c179c (112882 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.
Judge Shull requires ALL motions set for special-set hearing to go to mediation before the hearing is held.
Judge Burkhart will not schedule a temporary-relief hearing until mediation has been held ON the temporary relief sought — mediation first, hearing second.
Judge Sharrit refers ALL cases to mediation (exceptions only by leave) and openly encourages Special Magistrates under Rule 1.490(b) to beat the hearing-time bottleneck.