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12 verbatim mandatory provisions from 25-28.
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. • In accordance with the authority vested in the chief judge by Rule 2.215, Florida Rules of General Practice and Judicial Administration, and section 744.3135, Florida Statutes, which provides in part that the court shall require all guardians to submit, at their own expense, to an investigation of his or her criminal background, it is hereby: • All nonprofessional proposed guardians shall submit fingerprints electronically at the time of initial application to be appointed guardian. • All other documents required by the court to complete a credit and criminal background investigation shall be submitted directly to the clerk of court. a. • If a proposed guardian, guardian, or employee of a professional guardian with a fiduciary obligation to a ward has an order entered waiving fingerprints because his or her fingerprints are not discernible or rejected due to image quality, an alternative background investigation, both state and federal, is required. 2. • Professional guardians, including employees of professional guardians, shall submit fingerprints electronically and must be electronically reprinted every five (5) years. 3. • Every professional guardian is required to maintain proper registration with the Florida Department of Elder Affairs, Office of Public and Professional Guardians (OPPG). • In each calendar year within twenty (20) working days of receipt of their Annual OPPG Registration Renewal, every professional guardian shall provide proof to the clerk of court in each county in which he or she appears. • The Annual Registration Renewal shall be submitted to each clerk of court under their assigned administrative case number and not to the individual case numbers for those cases in which they act in a professional guardianship capacity. • Failure to timely file their Annual OPPG Registration Renewal with the clerk of court shall result in the clerk of court providing notice to the presiding judge of their case(s) for further action on their delinquency. • The Annual Registration Renewal shall include a copy of the registration renewal letter from OPPG, an updated credit report, and a copy of their updated bond. • Professional guardians shall not bill the ward(s) nor seek compensation from the ward(s) for any time or expenses related to complying with this Administrative Order. 4. • Professional guardians shall not use corporate credit cards (either as an emergency temporary guardian or a permanent guardian) to pay for any costs or expenses associated with their obligations to care for or obtain goods and services for the ward.
In accordance with the authority vested in the chief judge by Rule 2.215, Florida Rules of General Practice and Judicial Administration, and section 744.3135, Florida Statutes, which provides in part that the court shall require all guardians to submit, at their own expense, to an investigation of his or her criminal background, it is hereby:
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 790e857bb28fb8d277e81d7bfcc3ea3cab7ee955dd0b9c33e8ecea87b8d4f74d (123789 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.