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7 verbatim mandatory provisions from 17-46-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 AND GUARDIANSHIP – FINGERPRINTING OF GUARDIANS _____________________________________________________________________________________ In accordance with the authority vested in 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 shall require all guardians to submit, at their own expense, to an investigation of his or her criminal background, it is hereby: • All non-professional proposed guardians shall submit fingerprints electronically at the time of initial application to be appointed guardian. • All other documents required by the court to complete a credit and criminal background investigation shall be submitted directly to the Clerk of Court. 2. • Professional guardians, including employees of professional guardians, shall submit fingerprints electronically and must be electronically reprinted every five (5) years. • All other documents required by the Court to complete the annual credit and criminal investigation must be submitted no later than January 15th every year. 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 or rejected due to image quality, then the attorney for the proposed guardian, guardian, or professional guardian shall file a motion with the Court seeking waiver of the fingerprint requirement. • If a proposed guardian, guardian, or employee of a professional guardian with a fiduciary obligation to a ward has an order entered waiving fingerprints because his or her fingerprints are not discernible or rejected due to image quality, an alternative background investigation, both state and federal is required.
PROBATE AND GUARDIANSHIP – FINGERPRINTING OF GUARDIANS _____________________________________________________________________________________ In accordance with the authority vested in 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 shall require all guardians to submit, at their own expense, to an investigation of his or her criminal background, it is hereby:
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 60e3b07ca890e804ba00e4f1da64971b1f5a937e70f9ea1ddb7bef140493798c (131357 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.