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12 verbatim requirements extracted from 4025-01__2018-06.pdf, across 1 topic.
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.
HEARING TIME & ARGUMENT LIMITS • Honorable Michael J. Linn: All Juvenile Dependency and Delinquency Cases, including Detention and Shelter Hearings; All Probate and Guardianship Cases; Felony, Delinquency and Dependency Drug Court Cases; All CINS/FINS Cases; Substance Abuse and Mental Health Cases; All Risk Protection Order Cases; Member of the Indian River County Children’s Services Council; Assist with Mental Health Court and Veterans Court • Honorable Steven J. Levin: All Juvenile Dependency Cases, including Shelter Hearings; 75% of Civil Non-Jury Cases (from time of filing), excluding Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Cases; All Jimmy Ryce Cases; All Substance Abuse and Mental Health Cases; All Risk Protection Order Cases; Felony Drug Court; Member of the Martin County Children’s Services Council • Honorable Darren Steele: One-third of Martin County Court Cases; All Delinquency Cases, including Detention Hearings; Assist with Felony Cases • Honorable Laurie E. Buchanan: All Civil Cases; All Probate and Guardianship Cases; Assist with Felony Cases; All Juvenile Dependency Cases, including Shelter Hearings; All Juvenile Delinquency Cases, including Detention Hearings; Truancy Court; Juvenile Drug Court; Adult Felony and Misdemeanor Drug Court; Assist with Mental Health Court; Member of the Okeechobee County Children’s Services Council • Honorable Michael C. Heisey: All Domestic Relations Cases, including Injunctions for Protection; All Felony Cases; All Substance Abuse and Mental Health Cases; All Risk Protection Or der Cases; Assist Juvenile Division with Detention and Shelter Hearings as Juvenile Judge • Honorable Victoria L. Griffin: 50% of Domestic Relations Cases, including Injunctions for Protection (L-Z of alphabet); Assist Juvenile Division with Detention and Shelter Hearings as Juvenile Judge • Honorable Lawrence Mirman: All Non-Jury Civil Cases, including Residential Mortgage Foreclosures; Weekday First Appearance Hearings (in rotation with County Court Judges) • Honorable (to be elected): All Juvenile Dependency and Delinquency Cases, including Shelter and Detention Hearings; Member of St. Lucie County Children’s Services Council • All Circuit Court Judges assigned to St. Lucie County and Okeechobee 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 b e 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 Martin County and Indian River County 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 to assist with the Weekend First Appearances and Shelter Hearings in Okeechobee County.
Honorable Michael J. Linn: All Juvenile Dependency and De linquency Cases, including Detent ion and Shelter Hearings; All Probate and Guardianship Cases; Felony, Delinquen cy and Dependency Drug Court Cases; All CINS/FINS Cases; Substance Abuse and Mental Health Cases; All Risk Protection Order Cases; Member of the Indian River County Children’s Services Council; Assist with Mental Health Court and Veterans Court
Reviewer note: Document sha256: f30b0874adf1200f274bff667ea07d7d859b9f129ce4bdce06f0cd2b631c26c1. One rule per order rather than per topic, so an order's requirements stay together. Published during the completeness pass. Text layer cleaned 2026-09-08 (Phase 3g): 12 kerning-split words 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]
4 verbatim requirements on hearings.
2 verbatim requirements on hearing time in LAUREN N. PEFFER's division.