7 verbatim mandatory provisions from 21-20-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. • That the Clerk of Court shall cancel the Small Claims pre-trial conference when: a. • That the Clerk of Court shall then remove case from the Small Claims docket with the progress docket reflecting that the Pre-Trial Conference has been cancelled pursuant to this Administrative Order. • The Florida’s Rules of Civil Procedure shall be invoked with the case to be noticed for trial by either party once ready. 3. • In consultation with the Presiding Judge, the Clerk shall limit the number of cases set for Small Claims Pretrial Conferences. 4. • The times for commencement of Small Claims Pretrial Conferences shall be staggered and the summonses shall reflect the staggered times. 5. • The summonses issued in Small Claims cases shall include the following language: • The Presiding Judge shall facilitate videoconference attendance at Small Claims Pretrial Conferences, in accordance with the foregoing.
That the Clerk of Court shall cancel the Small Claims pre-trial conference when: a.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 770f978a423fd5573c972f699a7ac4fed313cdbf5b1526cbd4442f45367c42de (96109 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.
10 verbatim courtroom requirements from Judge Margaret R. Taylor's published division procedures.
Judge Taylor (under the shared County Criminal Standing Pretrial Order): continuance motions for in-custody defendants must be filed at least 48 hours before the court date to cancel jail transport, and all pleas are in person absent a pre-approved plea in absentia.