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8 verbatim mandatory provisions from 16-21-b.
Eighteenth Judicial Circuit. Check the order's own effective and rescission dates before relying on it. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
• In order to equally divide new or reopened family cases which may be referred to a general magistrate, commencing July 5, 2016, the clerk of the court shall set up an assignment table to randomly assign these cases among the three General Magistrates/Hearing Officers so that they are each “assigned” an equal number of cases from each Judicial Division. • This assignment shall identify the General Magistrate/Hearing Officer to whom the case will be referred by the assigned judge, when a referral is deemed appropriate by the assigned judge. • In order for the “assigned” General Magistrate/Hearing Officer to hear any other case, an Order of Referral shall be entered by a circuit judge, in accordance with Florida Family Law Rules of Procedure 12.490(b). 2. • The clerk shall assign a Judge/Magistrate division in each of the following case types: Dissolution of Marriage Other Family Court Paternity/Disestablishment of Paternity Support – Non IV-D Name Change UIFSA – Non IV-D 3. • The following case types shall continue to be randomly assigned among the Family Division Judges, and shall NOT be assigned a Judge/Magistrate designation: • The following case types shall continue to be randomly assigned among the Family Division Judges, but will be heard by the IV-D Child Support Hearing Officer pursuant to existing Administrative Orders: • These cases will not be included in the Judge/Magistrate assignment table. 7. • If a judge enters an order of recusal or disqualification, and the case is reassigned to another judge, the case shall remain with the originally assigned Magistrate.
In order to equally divide new or reopened family cases which may be referred to a general magistrate, commencing July 5, 2016, the clerk of the court shall set up an assignment table to randomly assign these cases among the three General Magistrates/Hearing Officers so that they are each “assigned” an equal number of cases from each Judicial Division.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: a6b37f355eae8fe52c780c87bb5ea29555b7b29c34b53deefd8672c501c962b1 (135654 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. | Scope corrected 2026-08-03: the 18th numbers county-specific orders with -b (Brevard) and -s (Seminole); unsuffixed orders are circuit-wide. This rule was bulk-tagged to one county at harvest; the court's own numbering convention now controls. Text layer cleaned 2026-09-08 (Phase 3a): page markers removed; wording untouched. 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. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]
4 verbatim requirements on hearings.
2 verbatim requirements on hearing time in LAUREN N. PEFFER's division.