EXHIBIT F 2017-03 Process Server Education — St. Lucie County, FL · BenchPath

19th Cir. — EXHIBIT F 2017-03 Process Server Education

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Special Set Hearings19th Jud. Cir., 3898-06__EXHIBIT-F-2017-03-process-server-education-1.pdf (pp. 1, 2) — sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Summary

4 verbatim requirements extracted from 3898-06__EXHIBIT-F-2017-03-process-server-education-1.pdf, across 1 topic.

Applies to

Nineteenth Judicial Circuit (Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee, St. Lucie). Check the order's own effective and rescission dates before relying on it. Procedural information only; not legal advice.

Requirement

HEARING TIME & ARGUMENT LIMITS • Applicants must complete, at a minimum, twenty (20) hours of instruction and/or training from an educational institution meeting the criteria set forth above. Consistent with adult education requirements, an hour of education consists of 50 minutes of instruction and/or training per hour . The course provided by the educational institution should address the following: •  The history and importance of service of process and process servers.  The structure of Florida courts.  Definitions of important terms.  Initiation of lawsuits in Florida.  Chapters 49 and 92, Florida Statutes, and other law relating to service of process.  The Florida Rules of Civil Procedure and Rules of Criminal Procedure.  The Nineteenth Judicial Circuit’s Administrative Order for the certification and regulation of process servers.  Myths and realities of service of process.  Components of safe, effective, courteous, and professional service of process, including examples of important do’s and don’ts.  Management of difficult individuals and avoidance of conflicts, including methods for minimization and de-escalation.  Methods of locating individuals for the purpose of service of process.  Elements of a successful business for service of process.  Four hours of role play for to include: 1) service of process on individuals and businesses; 2) service of process on witnesses; 3) service of • Renewal Applicants must complete, at a minimum, four (4) hours of instruction and/or training from an educational institution meeting the criteria set forth above, which should consist of the following: •  One hour of instruction as to changes or updates in the Florida Statutes, other law and procedures pertaining to service of process , including review of the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit’s Administrative Order for the certification and regulation of process servers.  Two hours of instruction on professional conduct which incorporates hypothetical situations and discussion.  One hour of instruction/training in management of difficult individuals and avoidance of conflicts, including methods for minimization and de- escalation.

Source of truth

Applicants must complete, a t a minimum, twenty (20) hours of instruction and/or training from an educational institution meeting the criteria set forth above. Consistent with adult education requirements, an hour of education consists of 50 minutes of instruction and/or training per hour . The course provided by the educational institution should address the following:

Official source: 19th Circuit — Administrative Orders (circuit19.org)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
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Last verified: September 9, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-08 (custody hash match) | prior: benchpath-p3-vision-recompose-2026-09-08

Reviewer note: Document sha256: 38369f5f5841315f500394d43a7bebde6c2cbded9ce365158dd582379a27c126. One rule per order rather than per topic, so an order's requirements stay together. Published during the completeness pass. | Title normalised 2026-07-26 for readability; the court's own asset name was "19th Cir. — 3898-06__EXHIBIT-F-2017-03-process-server-education-1.pdf: published requirements". Only the display title changed — the requirement text, source URL and hash are untouched. Text recomposed 2026-09-08 (Phase 3b): OCR/extractor artifacts corrected verbatim against the official print; wording unchanged. Text layer cleaned 2026-09-08 (Phase 3g): 1 kerning-split word rejoined; wording untouched. 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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