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9 verbatim mandatory provisions from 21-12.
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. • On January 4, 2021, an amended administrative order will issue to update attachment one by omitting cases that were disposed of prior to January 1, 2021, and by including cases that were filed after November 30, 2020, and not disposed of prior to January 1, 2021. 3. • This order shall be docketed in each appellate case that is to be transferred and served on the attorneys and pro se parties in the case via E-Filing Portal and if not on the eService List, then by First Class U.S. • No later than January 8, 2021, or as expediently thereafter as justice will follow, the Clerk shall transfer via the Florida Courts E-Filing Portal all documents on the docket of each appellate case to the Clerk of the Fifth District Court of Appeal in the manner requested by the District Court. d. • For each transferred case, the Clerk of the Circuit Court shall include (i) an Appeal Transfer Form substantially mirroring the form included with this order as Attachment 2; • The Clerk shall list on the Appeal Transfer Form the underlying county court case number (Uniform Case Numbering (UCN) System court types CC, CT, MM, and SC), the circuit appeal case number (UCN court type AP), and any local case number assigned in addition to the UCN numbers. f. • For transferred cases where the filing fee is owed, the Clerk shall promptly file a status report with the District Court of Appeal when the fee is satisfied by payment or indigency determination. • In the event the fee has not been timely paid, the Clerk shall promptly notify the District Court of Appeal. g. • Any future filings by a party to an appellate case shall be submitted electronically to the Fifth District Court of Appeal via the Florida Courts E-Filing Portal. • If not already registered, attorneys in the transferred cases shall register with eDCA for the District Court of Appeal by following the procedures on the District Court of Appeal’s website.
On January 4, 2021, an amended administrative order will issue to update attachment one by omitting cases that were disposed of prior to January 1, 2021, and by including cases that were filed after November 30, 2020, and not disposed of prior to January 1, 2021. 3.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 26fd883297d3f251bece6decfe93a8d921c546e85e8decad8ab3a98cae4afb20 (159211 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 Eighteenth Judicial Circuit (Seminole and Brevard) requires cover letters in PDF format and proposed orders in .docx format using DJMCA formatting codes, submitted through the Florida Courts E-Filing Portal.
Florida attorneys must file court documents electronically through the statewide Florida Courts E-Filing Portal (myflcourtaccess.com). Self-represented litigants may e-file through the same portal. Local circuits layer their own formatting and routing quirks on top.
Effective June 15, 2026, every signer of a Florida court filing — attorney or self-represented — represents that "the legal authorities identified exist and are accurately cited," with express sanctions (reprimand, contempt, striking, dismissal, costs, fees) for violations. Companion order AOSC26-12 preempts ALL circuit- and judge-level AI disclosure/certification requirements.