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8 verbatim mandatory provisions from 19-16-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. • Upon determining that a minor should be admitted to a facility for mental health treatment, the facility shall prepare DCF Form CF-MH-3097, Application for Voluntary Admission - Minors, and a Petition to Verify Consent for Voluntary Inpatient Treatment and electronically file those documents with the Clerk of Court. • The child shall be identified in the style of the pleading only by initials 2. • Upon filing, the matter shall be automatically referred for hearing to a designated on-call General Magistrate. 3. • Thereafter, the facility shall email to the on-call General Magistrate those documents along with such other document as may be requested to properly identify the parents, guardian, and child, along with such other information that may be relevant to gauge the voluntariness of the minor’s consent to treatment. 4. • Upon contacting the on-call General Magistrate, the facility shall initiate a video conference with the Magistrate, who shall conduct a hearing to verify the voluntariness of the minor’s consent to be admitted for treatment. • Following the hearing, the Magistrate shall prepare a Report and Recommended Order, which shall be presented to a Circuit Judge for review at the earliest possible time. • If the Circuit Judge does not approve the Report and Recommended Order, that information shall -- 1 of 2 -- 2 be transmitted to the facility which shall release the child or transfer him or her to involuntary status. • Any party affected by the order may seek to vacate the order within 10 days of rendition. 7.
Upon determining that a minor should be admitted to a facility for mental health treatment, the facility shall prepare DCF Form CF-MH-3097, Application for Voluntary Admission - Minors, and a Petition to Verify Consent for Voluntary Inpatient Treatment and electronically file those documents with the Clerk of Court.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: b2043737e0345943366049a5f4d3f0a2640b17f13231afe27376c7bed604848c (93266 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.
Judge Costello's AI section simply restates amended Rule 2.515(d)(2) — the post-AOSC26-12 statewide standard — a compliance model, not a local mandate: signers certify cited authorities exist and are accurately cited, with the rule's own sanctions.
The strongest in-the-wild confirmation of the 2026 statewide AI rule: Judge Bantner's page expressly states his prior AI requirements are REMOVED because of the May 28, 2026 amendment of Rule 2.515 — signing a filing now itself certifies the authorities exist and are accurately cited.