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6 verbatim mandatory provisions from 22-07-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. • At a minimum, cases with the following qualities shall be identified as potential Early Childhood Court cases: a. • A referral form must be completed and submitted to the Community Coordinator for Early Childhood Court for consideration. 4. • If the parent(s) are to voluntarily participate in Early Childhood Court, the following procedures shall occur after the child or child(ren) are adjudicated dependent: a. • The Clerk and/or court staff shall set the case on the Early Childhood Court docket and set all future hearings before the Judge for Early Childhood Court. c. • If the identified parents elect not to participate or are removed from the Early Childhood Court for any reason, the Clerk and/or court staff shall transfer the case back to the previously assigned Dependency Court division docket for further proceedings. 8. • All Early Childhood Court participants shall be responsible for compliance with the terms and conditions as set forth in Early Childhood Court forms and documents, as otherwise ordered by the Court, and as set forth in Chapter 39, Florida Statutes.
At a minimum, cases with the following qualities shall be identified as potential Early Childhood Court cases: a.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 1fcf2a4395af556806cbcc37a02e13cac5f2999c6a26c80b249c36e9eefda2ce (140221 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.