14309-01__2025-08.pdf: published requirements — St. Lucie County, FL

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HEARING TIME & ARGUMENT LIMITS • Honorable Cynthia Cox: All Civil Cases Honorable Victoria Griffin: All Domestic Relations Cases, including Injunctions for Protection; Assist with Mental Health Court/Veterans’ Court; Assist Juvenile Division with Detention and Shelter Hearings • Honorable Rebecca White: All Juvenile Dependency and Delinquency Cases, including Detention and Shelter Hearings; All CINS/FINS Cases; Oversee Truancy court; All Probate and Guardianship Cases; All substance abuse and mental health court cases (i.e., Baker and Marchman Act cases); All Risk Protection Order Cases; All Jimmy Ryce Cases; Member of the Indian River County Children’s Services Council; Responsible for all post -conviction relief motions/hearings; Okeechobee County Early Childhood Court cases • MARTIN COUNTY Honorable Sherwood Bauer: All Juvenile Dependency and Delinquency Cases including Detention and Shelter Hearings; All CINS/FINS Cases; Oversee Truancy court; 75% of Civil Non-Jury Cases (from time of filing) excluding Residential and Commercial Mortgage Foreclosure Cases; All Jimmy Ryce Cases; All Probate and Guardianship Cases; All Risk Protection Order Cases; All substance abuse and mental health court cases (i.e., Baker and Marchman Act); Member of the Martin County Children’s Services Council • Honorable Michael McNicholas: All Domestic Relations Cases, including Injunctions for Protection; Assist Juvenile Division with Detention and Shelter Hearings • Honorable Laurie Buchanan: One-half of all Domestic Relations Cases including Injunctions for Protection (all even assigned DR case numbers); All Civil Cases; All Probate and Guardianship Cases; All Dependency Cases, including daily Shelter Hearings; All CINS/FINS Cases; Oversee Truancy Court; Assist with Mental Health Court; Assist with Juvenile Delinquency Cases; Assist with Early Childhood Court • Honorable Leatha Mullins: One-half of all Domestic Relations cases including Injunctions for Protection (all odd assigned DR case numbers); All Felony Cases; All substance abuse and mental health court cases (i.e., Baker and Marchman Act); All Risk Protection Order Cases; All Juvenile Delinquency Cases, including Detention Hearings; All Jimmy Ryce Cases • Honorable William Wallace: All Okeechobee County Court Cases; Assist with Felony Drug Court cases; Mental Health Court; Veterans’ Court; Assist with Juvenile Delinquency Cases, including Detention Hearings; Assist with Truancy Court; Assist with Probate cases; Member of the Okeechobee County Children’s Services Council • Honorable Michael Heisey: One-third of Felony Cases; Assist Felony Drug Court (Alphabet OS-Z) Honorable Steven Levin: All Non-Jury Civil Cases, including Residential and Commercial Mortgage Foreclosures; One - half of all Probate cases (all even numbered cases); All Guardianship Cases (and corresponding MH cases); Weekday First Appearance Hearings (in rotation with County Court Judges); All civil forfeiture cases; All Jimmy Ryce Cases; Martin County Adult Drug Court • Honorable TBD (Awaiting Governor Appointment): All Juvenile Dependency and Delinquency Cases, including Shelter and Detention Hearings; Oversee all CINS/FINS Cases; Oversee Truancy Court; One-half all Probate cases (all odd number cases); Mental Health Court; Member of St. Lucie County Children’s Services Council; Member of the St. Lucie County Roundtable • Honorable TBD (Awaiting Governor Appointment): One-half of Domestic Relations Cases, including Injunctions for Protection (A -K of alphabet); Assist Juvenile Division with Detention and Shelter Hearings • Honorable TBD (Awaiting Governor Appointment): One-half of Domestic Relations Cases, including Injunctions for Protection (L -Z of alphabet); Assist Juvenile Division with Detention and Shelter Hearings Honorable Edmond W. Alonzo: All St. Lucie County Court Civil Cases and Landlord/Tenant Cases; All Traffic Infractions involving serious injury or death; All Traffic Magistrate recusals and/or disqualifications; 30% of Small Claim Cases including Replevin; County Election Canvassing Board • All Circuit Court Judges assigned to St. Lucie County will be responsible, with the St. Lucie County Court Judges, for Weekend First Appearances, Shelter Hearings, and Detention Hearings in St. Lucie County. • All Circuit Court Judges assigned to Indian River County will be responsible, in rotation with Indian River County Judges, for Weekend First Appearances and Shelter Hearings in Indian River County. • All Circuit Court Judges assigned to Martin County will be responsible, in rotation with Martin County Judges, for Weekend First Appearances and Shelter Hearings in Martin County. • All Circuit Court Judges assigned to Okeechobee, Martin and Indian River Counties will be responsible, in rotation with the Okeechobee County Judge, for Weekend First Appearances and Shelter Hearings in Okeechobee County. Any County Court Judge in Martin and Indian River County may choose or be scheduled to assist with the Weekend First Appearances and Shelter Hearings in Okeechobee County.

Source of truth

Honorable Cynthia Cox: All Civil Cases Honorable Victoria Griffin: All Domestic Relations Cases, including Injunctions for Protection; Assist with Mental Health Court/Veterans’ Court; Assist Juvenile Division with Detention and Shelter Hearings

Official source

19th Circuit — Administrative Orders (circuit19.org)

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Healthy · checked October 24, 2026

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September 9, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-08 (custody hash match) | prior: benchpath-completeness-2026-07-24

Reviewer note: Document sha256: 3dcb925c794cf6c4965a41e7c5da6d62cba3d3513f625d2948877d752d09d6fe. One rule per order rather than per topic, so an order's requirements stay together. Published during the completeness pass. Verbatim from the order, captured 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used anywhere in this chain. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

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19th Cir. — 14309-01__2025-08.pdf: published requirements

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