6 verbatim mandatory provisions from Family Court: Seminole County Family Court FAQ.
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. • You must prove to the Court that you have made a reasonable effort to locate him/her. • On the other hand, if, during your search for the other party, you locate his/her address, then you must have him/her served by personal service as provided for in Chapter 48 of the Florida Statutes. • The five places listed below are the minimum requirements that must be done: • Fees are required at time of Request Cashier check, personal check or Money Order is the method of Payment accepted by the Department of Motor Vehicle 9. • Search for Military Service | 12.912 Forms A – B (a) Memorandum for Certificate of Military Service You must print out the attached form and send to each branch of the military listed on the instruction page of this handout. *you may be charged a service fee by each military service branch for its response. • File with case You are required to file written proof of your search efforts such as payment receipts, printed search results, letters from companies/organizations/businesses and/or other proof of your attempts to locate information on the other party. -- 4 of 4 --
You must prove to the Court that you have made a reasonable effort to locate him/her.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: ba61ae854aa10d2d834033fd6fa375395c923021a54041549aff10d69f0a62b7 (308495 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.