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16 verbatim mandatory provisions from 24-48.
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. • D/B/A CENTRAL FLORIDA FOSTER CARE REVIEW TO ADMINISTER THE EIGHTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT’S CITIZEN REVIEW PANEL PROGRAM WHEREAS, pursuant to Florida Statutes 39.701 and 39.702, Grace Landing, Inc., doing business as Central Florida Foster Care Review, is permitted to conduct judicial reviews in dependency cases upon judicial referral; and WHEREAS, pursuant to Florida Statute 39.702(2), citizen review panels in Florida must be administered by a non-profit organization and Grace Landing, Inc., is a qualifying non-profit organization and has provided its tax-exempt letter from the IRS to this Court in proof thereof; and WHEREAS, utilizing the Citizen Review Panels in the Eighteen Judicial Circuit will assist the court in ensuring the best interest of children in the child welfare system; and WHEREAS, the Administrative Office of the Courts has responsibility for the efficient handling of dependency cases and supporting the effective operation of the Citizen Review Panel Program; • Grace Landing, Inc., doing business as Central Florida Foster Care Review shall administer the Citizen Review Panel Program in accordance with the requirements of Section 39.702(5), F.S., as specifically set forth herein: a. • Final selection of citizen review panel members shall, to the extent possible, reflect the multicultural composition of the community in which they serve. • A criminal background check and personal reference check shall be conducted on each citizen review panel member prior to the member serving on a citizen review panel. • In collaboration with the Department, develop, implement, and maintain a training program for citizen review volunteers and provide training for each panel member prior to that member serving on a review panel. • Such training may include, but shall not be limited to, instruction on dependency laws, departmental policies, and judicial procedures. d. • Citizen Review Panel members shall serve without compensation, at the pleasure of the Chief Judge. c. • Citizen Review Panel hearings shall be conducted in accordance with all applicable Florida Statutes, Rules of Juvenile Procedure, and federal law, as follows: a. • The Court shall select the cases appropriate for referral to the Citizen Review Panel. c. • The Clerk of the Court shall schedule reviews before the Citizen Review Panel in coordination with Central Florida Foster Care Review and the court. d. • A minimum of seventy-two (72) hours prior to the Citizen Review Panel’s hearing, a Judicial Review Social Study Report (JRSSR) and attachments required by Section 39.710, F.S. must be filed by the case management agency with the Court and distributed to all parties and the Central Florida Foster Care Review. e. • The Citizen Review Panel may not conduct more than two consecutive judicial review hearings without the child and the parties coming before the court for a judicial review. g. • The Citizen Review Panel shall submit its written findings and recommendations report to the presiding judge within 10 days of the review hearing. • No party shall be asked to waive their right to file exceptions to the report and recommendations pursuant to Rule 8.257(e), (f), Florida Rules of Juvenile Procedure. i. • To allow the Central Florida Foster Care Review to comply with all requirements as to recruitment and training of Citizen Review Panel members and to develop all necessary policies and procedures, the Citizen Review Panels shall not convene any sooner than February 3, 2025. 5. • This Administrative Order shall take effect immediately upon execution and shall remain in effect until further order of the Court.
D/B/A CENTRAL FLORIDA FOSTER CARE REVIEW TO ADMINISTER THE EIGHTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT’S CITIZEN REVIEW PANEL PROGRAM WHEREAS, pursuant to Florida Statutes 39.701 and 39.702, Grace Landing, Inc., doing business as Central Florida Foster Care Review, is permitted to conduct judicial reviews in dependency cases upon judicial referral; and WHEREAS, pursuant to Florida Statute 39.702(2), citizen review panels in Florida must be administered by a non-profit organization and Grace Landing, Inc., is a qualifying non-profit organization and has provided its tax-exempt letter from the IRS to this Court in proof thereof; and WHEREAS, utilizing the Citizen Review Panels in the Eighteen Judicial Circuit will assist the court in ensuring the best interest of children in the child welfare system; and WHEREAS, the Administrative Office of the Courts has responsibility for the efficient handling of depe
Reviewer note: Document sha256: d4c5d028db9ba169d08c9e2c104c665f9d4352e8de43a07769bc75f57dcec078 (119977 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.
1 verbatim requirement published by Palm Beach magistrate 01 on hearing time & argument limits.
1 verbatim requirement published by Palm Beach magistrate 02 on hearing time & argument limits.
1 verbatim requirement published by Palm Beach magistrate 03 on hearing time & argument limits.