Judge Jennifer Alcorta Waters: Filing & initiation — Martin County, FL

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Procedure: When filing Notice for Trial, you must send a copy of the Notice to ALL Parties. The parties must comply with the Pre-trial Order, which includes, without limitation, timely submission of joint pre-trial statements. Motions in limine and other motions concerning how the trial is to be conducted will not be entertained during trial or on the day of jury selection, unless the Court is satisfied that with due diligence, the matter could not have been heard pretrial. Trials will take place in Courtroom A2-1, unless otherwise indicated. Mediation will generally be required before any trial may occur.

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 (live text containment) | prior: benchpath-completeness-2026-07-24

Reviewer note: Page sha256: e30ccb03a15f14d16436bb1e4f19dccdd83b9be2ad9afde3d7adb486b676f984. Corpus topic: filing_initiation. Published during the completeness pass — the 2026-07-24 arbitration verified this circuit but published 14 rules against 6,388 verbatim requirements. Verbatim from this officer's published procedures, captured 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

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19th Cir. — Judge Jennifer Alcorta Waters: Filing & initiation

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139th District Court (Hidalgo County) — Standing Order: e-filing required for all family-law and civil documents from October 21, 2013 (signed October 18, 2013)

County Court at Law No. 7 (Hidalgo County) — Standing Order: e-filing required for all family-law documents (District Clerk) and civil documents (County Clerk) from October 21, 2013

County Court at Law No. 8 (Hidalgo County) — Standing Order: e-filing required for family-law and civil documents from December 2, 2013; valid e-mail addresses on all submitted orders

Eighteenth Cir. — 09-19-s