3 verbatim mandatory provisions from 16-42-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. • ADOPTIONS – CRIMINAL CHECKS ____________________________________________________________________________________ In all adoptions before the Circuit Court for Brevard County, Florida, involving a minor or an adult as adoptee and a preliminary home study under section 63.092, Florida Statutes, is neither required by Chapter 63, Florida Statutes, nor ordered by the Court in a particular case, the Petitioner shall send a copy of the adoption Petition to the Program Administrator at the Florida Department of Children and Families (“Department”), 375 Commerce Parkway, Suite 101, Rockledge, Florida 32955. • The Petitioner shall also provide the name of the judge assigned to the Petitioner’s adoption case. • Within twenty (20) days from receipt of the adoption Petition, the Department shall inform the judge assigned to the Petitioner’s adoption case of the results of Petitioner’s FCIC/abuse registry background checks.
ADOPTIONS – CRIMINAL CHECKS ____________________________________________________________________________________ In all adoptions before the Circuit Court for Brevard County, Florida, involving a minor or an adult as adoptee and a preliminary home study under section 63.092, Florida Statutes, is neither required by Chapter 63, Florida Statutes, nor ordered by the Court in a particular case, the Petitioner shall send a copy of the adoption Petition to the Program Administrator at the Florida Department of Children and Families (“Department”), 375 Commerce Parkway, Suite 101, Rockledge, Florida 32955.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: d9aa716cc591e600566ee5e56ea18692545e447f1b3b7969a24e97fd7963d055 (93594 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.