General Magistrate Procedures — St. Lucie County, FL · BenchPath

19th Cir. — General Magistrate Procedures

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Proposed Orders19th Jud. Cir., media-13110__General-Magistrate-Procedures-2.pdf (pp. 1) — sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Summary

4 verbatim requirements extracted from media-13110__General-Magistrate-Procedures-2.pdf, across 3 topics.

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

PROPOSED ORDERS • Pursuant to Administrative Order 2023- 03, General Magistrate Sean Lewis has been assigned to hear civil matters as agreed to by the parties or as referred by this Court. • All Discovery Motions Motion for Contempt Motion for Protective Order Motion for Sanctions Motion to Transfer Venue Motion to Add/Substitute Parties Motion to Withdraw/Substitution of Counsel Motion to Intervene Motion to Amend Motion for Attorney’s Fees/Costs Pretrial Conference Status/Case Management Conference Motion to Compel HEARING TIME & ARGUMENT LIMITS • An Order of Referral can be found on our webpage under forms. Please submit a proposed Order of Referral within three (3) days of scheduling your hearing to SLCJudge4@Circuit19.org. All required hearing documents shall be submitted to the General Magistrate’s office at SLCMagistrate2@Circuit19.org . Please see the General Magistrate procedures for further details on procedures. REMOTE & VIRTUAL APPEARANCES • Contact Information: General Magistrate Sean Lewis Assistant: Melinda How Email: SLCMagistrate2@Circuit19.org Telephone: 772-742-9238 Courtroom: 1B Zoom Meeting ID: 5574784701

Source of truth

Pursuant to Administrative Order 2023- 03, General Magistrate Sean Lewis has been assigned to hear civil matters as agreed to by the parties or as referred by this Court.

Official source: 19th Circuit — Administrative Orders (circuit19.org)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 9, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-08 (custody hash match) | prior: benchpath-completeness-2026-07-24

Reviewer note: Document sha256: f32c55e2987d6d8cb056dae372095399cd1d079e13406e60ae1669f9edeafa52. 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. — media-13110__General-Magistrate-Procedures-2.pdf: published requirements". Only the display title changed — the requirement text, source URL and hash are 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]

Enforcement / Contempt (Family)

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