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42 verbatim requirements extracted from magistrate-lindsay-stroke__Stroke-Judical-Court-procedures.pdf, across 6 topics.
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 • All communications to the Magistrate’s Office must be submitted by email to slcmagistrate2@circuit19.org. The subject line must contain the case number, case name, and relevant matter (e.g. 2924DR991234 – Doe v. Doe – 2 hour hearing requested). A short case number is acceptable (e.g. 24DR123). • Purpose: The body of the email must contain a brief description of the purpose of the email. If a potential hearing date and time over one hour is being requested, please include a good-faith estimate of time needed for the entire hearing (after consulting with opposing counsel/party), and a good-faith certification that attempts have been made to resolve the matter with the outcome of those attempts. DO NOT JUST PROVIDE THE TIME FOR YOUR SIDE OF THE HEARING. You must account for time for both sides, as the court’s presumption is to equally divide the time. • Motions may be submitted in .pdf format and MUST include a time stamp indicating that they have been filed in the court file. All proposed orders must be submitted in Word format two business days prior to the hearing. Please submit all documents attached to one email. • If you are unable to email the Magistrate’s assistant, please do not leave more than one voicemail message. Voicemail messages are answered in order of receipt within 24-48 business hours. • All motions must be filed with the St. Lucie County Clerk of Court BEFORE you contact this office for a hearing date and time. Hearings will not be coordinated unless (1) the motion is visible in the clerk’s file; or (2) you attach a time-stamped copy of the filed motion to your email requesting hearing time. • All hearings must be coordinated through the magistrate’s assistant via email. This office does not use an online calendar. When requesting a hearing date, please email the magistrate’s assistant at slcmagistrate2@circuit19.org and copy opposing counsel and/or the pro se party. Hearing dates will be confirmed on a first come, first served basis via email. Your hearing date and time is not confirmed until you receive a confirmation email from the magistrate’s assistant that it has been added to the court calendar. • The magistrate allows parties to appear in-person or via Zoom (without the filing of a motion) for case management hearings and non-evidentiary hearings. In person appearance is required for final hearings, evidentiary hearings and trials unless the Magistrate grants permission to appear via zoom. It is the attorney’s responsibility to test Zoom capabilities with the party prior to the hearing. Failure of a party to appear via Zoom may result in the magistrate resetting the hearing and requiring in-person appearance. All notices of hearing must contain the ADA notification required by Florida Rule of General Practice and Judicial Administration 2.540. • Hearing dates and times must be cleared with opposing counsel, noting the same on your notice of hearing, and most importantly, confirmed by this office. Submit a copy of your motion and notice of hearing to the magistrate’s assistant via email at slcmagistrate2@circuit19.org at least five business days prior to the hearing. Failure to provide the documents may result in the striking of the hearing. Notices of hearings MUST contain a good-faith certificate (see Good-Faith Certificate). • Additional motions may not be “piggy-backed” by cross-notice unless counsel first confirms with the party who scheduled the hearing and/or the magistrate’s assistant that sufficient additional time can be reserved to hear them. • You may also send via email any case law, legal memoranda, etc. which you think may be helpful to the Court at least two business days prior to the hearing, but please make the same information available to the opposing party on the same timeline. Please highlight any pertinent sections of the case law you submit. • If you want to cancel a hearing, contact the Magistrate assistant at slcmagistrate2@circuit19.org. If you want to cancel a hearing on the opposing party’s motion or petition, contact the opposing party first to determine whether they will agree to the cancellation. No notice of cancellation will be accepted by this office unless 1. The pending pleading is withdrawn; or 2. The pending pleading is rescheduled. • All notices of hearing must contain a certificate of good faith that you have contacted the opposing party and coordinated the hearing date, time, and amount of time necessary for the hearing. If, after three business days, you are unable to coordinate a hearing date and time, you may report that information to the magistrate’s assistant in the email thread, and the hearing will be set unilaterally. • I HEREBY CERTIFY that I have personally contacted opposing counsel in an effort to resolve the issue(s), however, the matter cannot be resolved, and a hearing is necessary. • Pursuant to Fla. Fam. L.R.P. 12.490(d)(4), the notice of hearing must also contain the following language in bold type: • SHOULD YOU WISH TO SEEK REVIEW OF THE RECOMMENDED ORDER MADE BY THE GENERAL MAGISTRATE, YOU MUST FILE A MOTION TO V ACATE IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULE 12.490€, FLORIDA FAMILY LAW RULES OF PROCEDURE, YOU WILL BE REQUIRED TO PROVIDE THE COURT WITH A RECORD SUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT YOUR MOTION TO V ACATE OR YOUR MOTION WILL BE DENIED. A RECORD ORDINARILY INCLUDES A WRITTEN TRANSCRIPT OF ALL RELEVANT PROCEEDINGS UNLESS WAIVED BY ORDER OF THEC OURT PRIOR TO ANY HEARING ON THE MOTION TO V ACATE. THE PERSON SEEKING REVIEW MUST HA VE THE TRANSCRIPT PREPARED FOR THE COURT’S REVIEW. • All notices of report hearing must contain the following language: At the designated hearing time, you will appear through Zoom teleconferencing (without charge) via video by clicking link https://zoom.us/j/2076384494 or via phone by calling 1-646-558-8656; Meeting ID: 207 638 4494. You must appear via video to provide testimony. You will be in the virtual “waiting room” until the case is called. • After proper notice, failure of any party to appear at the hearing will not prevent another party from proceeding with the matter when the case is called. If the party noticing the • matter for hearing chooses to wait for the absent party, the matter may be passed over until the end of the calendar. • Petitioners and/or Respondents without an attorney are “pro se.” Please note that the magistrate is not permitted to hear any matters unless they (1) have been properly raised by a motion or petition, and (2) have been properly noticed for hearing. • If both parties are pro se/self-represented, then their case will be placed on the pro se docket. The Pro Se Case Manager manages this docket, and this Manager will set all hearings in the case. Pro se litigants may inquire as to the status of their case, or request a hearing, by completing and submitting Form A located at www.circuit19.org under the Family Division. • If only one party is pro se, and the other party has an attorney, then hearings must be scheduled in the manner outlined in Section B, above. • All motions or other pleadings filed in your case must be provided to the other party or his/her attorney at the time of filing. Proof of service (via a properly completed certificate of service) must be completed to verify service of a copy of the item being filed to the other party, the date served, how served (US Mail, email, etc.) and the address where the item was sent/served. If service is required by process server or sheriff’s office, the return of service affidavit must be filed in the court file with the St. Lucie County Clerk of Court. Failure to properly certify service in the court file may result in the rescheduling of your hearing or dismissal of your motion. • All case management conferences are conducted via zoom however parties may appear in person if they wish. Parties may appear via zoom for non-evidentiary hearings with the Magistrate’s permission. All final hearings, evidentiary hearings and trials are in person unless the Magistrate has granted permission to appear via zoom. • Proposed orders shall use the magistrate’s template (the magistrate’s assistant will provide the template applicable to your situation upon request via email if you do not have the template). The proposed recommended order shall be typed in Times New Toman 12 pt font. The proposed recommended order should reflect the date the hearing was held. The document should be named in a searchable format, which contains a short style of the case, short case number, and short name of order. SAMPLE: Doe v. Doe 16DR3 O-Cont. Your proposed recommended order must contain a complete service list, setting forth e-service addresses, as well as any postal addresses if there is no e-service address. Signed recommended orders will be e-filed and e-served via the e-portal only. • Attorneys SHALL submit proposed orders two business days prior to hearings and/or trial. • When counsel/party intends to rely on case law or other documents in a hearing, a courtesy electronic copy submitted to the court and the opposing party in advance is required. Please make sure the documents are tabbed for ease of reference. • Courtesy copies of case law, legal memoranda, and/or hearing materials must be submitted no later than two business days prior to the hearing. • Parties MUST attend mediation before a motion for temporary relief will be set on the court calendar. All motions for temporary relief will be set for a maximum of 30 minutes only. You may ask for permission to extend the hearing to one hour, which will only be allowed for good cause shown. • If the motion involves financial issues, both parties must have up-to-date financial affidavits in the court file prior to the scheduling of the motion for hearing. • If there is a motion to compel a response to discovery, you may submit a copy of said motion to the magistrate’s assistant with a proposed recommended order in Word format giving the opposing party ten (10) days from the date of the order to compel. The motion must have a certificate of good faith. You must comply with Fla. Fam. L.R.P. 12.380. There is no requirement for a hearing on such a motion Gaspar, Inc. v. Naples Fed. Sav. & Loan Ass’n., 546 So.2d 764 (Fla. 5 th DCA 1989). • If consent by the client has been filed and referenced in the motion to withdraw, a hearing is not required. You may submit a copy of the motion and consent with a proposed order in Word to slcmagistrate2@circuit19.org. • Pursuant to Administrative Order 2015-12, “any party who seeks to schedule a trial or hearing on any contested issue, other than contempt, enforcement, injunctions against domestic or repeat violence, or Title IV-D actions, which will take more than one (1) hour, shall first participate in mediation.” Administrative Order 2015-12, § VI(G) (emphasis added). • If at any time after the entry of an order setting trial, a case is dismissed, or results in a completed settlement, counsel must immediately notify the magistrate’s assistant by email at slcmagistrate2@circuit19.org. The case will not be removed from the court’s trial calendar unless a final order has been entered. If the final order has not been entered prior to the trial date and time, the matter will either proceed to trial or final hearing on the scheduled trial date and time (and attendance is required), or the court will reschedule the matter. Counsel must expeditiously file all paperwork necessary to close the case, as well as notify the magistrate’s assistant. • If you are in need of translation services, it is your responsibility to bring a Florida Supreme Court certified interpreter to your court hearing. A list of certified interpreters can be found on the Find an Interpreter page of the Florida Courts website. https://www.flcourts.gov/Resources-Services/Court-Services/Court-Interpreting/Find-an- Interpreter • All hearings before the Magistrate are recorded and a copy of the recording may be obtained on a CD from Court Recording. You may request a copy of the audio or a transcript using the online forms link located on the home page of the 19 th Judicial Circuit Court website. PROPOSED ORDERS • Please do not send multiple emails about the same subject matter. Emails are answered in the order they are received. • Proposed orders shall be submitted to slcmagistrate2@circuit19.org REMOTE & VIRTUAL APPEARANCES • The court maintains a hybrid virtual courtroom, allowing parties to appear either in • person or remotely, as provided by Florida Rule of General Practice and Judicial Administration 2.530. Requests to use communication technology for an appearance must be made by motion. COURTESY COPIES • Telephone: 772-742-9238 Table of Contents Administrative Magistrate Lindsay Stroke St. Lucie County Post-Judgment Family Division Procedures ....................................................................................................................................... 1 A. Communication with the Magistrate’s Office ................................................................. 2 B. Scheduling Procedures .................................................................................................... 3 C. Remote Appearance ........................................................................................................ 6 D. Submission of Orders and Judgments (Attorney Cases Only)........................................ 7 E. Courtesy Copies of Case Law and Other Documents ..................................................... 8 F. Exhibits for Evidentiary Proceedings ............................................................................. 8 G. Other Division Procedures .............................................................................................. 8 CONTINUANCES • Continuances are disfavored and will be granted upon good cause shown. A request for continuance must be submitted at least five days prior to the scheduled court date. Except for good cause shown, the motion must be signed by the party requesting the continuance, as required by Florida Rule of General Practice and Judicial Administration 2.545(e). EXHIBITS & EVIDENCE • Please see separate exhibit policy posted on the division website.
Telephone: 772-742-9238 Table of Contents Administrative Magistrate Lindsay Stroke St. Lucie County Post-Judgment Family Division Procedures ....................................................................................................................................... 1 A. Communication with the Magistrate’s Office ................................................................. 2 B. Scheduling Procedures .................................................................................................... 3 C. Remote Appearance ........................................................................................................ 6 D. Submission of Orders and Judgments (Attorney Cases Only)........................................ 7 E. Courtesy Copies of Case Law and Other Documents ..................................................... 8 F. Exhibits for Evidentiary Proceedings ..
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