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15 verbatim requirements from 2nd Circuit Administrative Order 2026-02.
Second Judicial Circuit. Administrative orders change without notice; the court's own order controls. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
• Magistrates assigned to Franklin County shall hear family cases with pro se parties, except for uncontested family cases, simplified dissolution of marriage cases, juvenile dependency, termination of parental rights trials, juvenile delinquency, and protective injunctions. • Magistrates assigned to Gadsden County shall hear family cases with pro se parties, except for uncontested family cases, simplified dissolution of marriage cases, juvenile dependency, termination of parental rights trials, juvenile delinquency, and protective injunctions. • Magistrates assigned to Jefferson County shall hear family cases with pro se parties, except for uncontested family cases, simplified dissolution of marriage cases, juvenile dependency, termination of parental rights trials, juvenile delinquency, and protective injunctions. • In addition, he shall be assigned Leon County Grand Jury duties. • Magistrates assigned to Leon County shall hear family cases with pro se parties, except for uncontested family cases, simplified dissolution of marriage cases, juvenile dependency, termination of parental rights trials, juvenile delinquency, and protective injunctions. • Magistrates assigned to Liberty County shall hear family cases with pro se parties, except for uncontested family cases, simplified dissolution of marriage cases, juvenile dependency, termination of parental rights trials, juvenile delinquency, and protective injunctions. • Magistrates assigned to Wakulla County shall hear family cases with pro se parties, except for uncontested family cases, simplified dissolution of marriage cases, termination of parental rights trials, juvenile delinquency, and protective injunctions. • The trial court administrator shall prepare a rotation list designating each circuit and county judge to serve as circuit-wide duty judge on weekends and holidays. • The circuit-wide weekend and holiday duty judge shall also handle any arrest warrants, search warrants, petitions for injunctions, emergency hearings, or other emergency matters brought to the circuit-wide weekend and holiday duty judge’s attention only while the court is convened for the weekend and holiday first appearance hearings. • A request for an emergency hearing shall be presented in writing to the judge assigned to the case. • If an assigned judge is unavailable in Leon County, and a duty judge has not been designated to address such an emergency, the request for an emergency hearing shall be referred to the Chief Judge. • Circuit judges assigned to Franklin, Gadsden, Jefferson, Liberty, and Wakulla Counties shall be responsible for qualifying the jury venire during their trial weeks. • County judges in Franklin, Gadsden, Jefferson, Liberty, and Wakulla Counties shall qualify jurors during their trial weeks. • Courtrooms and hearing rooms shall be assigned by the Office of Court Administration, in consultation with the Chief Judge. • All judges assigned to new divisions shall assume the caseload, opened or reopened, previously assigned to the preceding judge, including all pending and scheduled hearings, proceedings, trial dates, and associated scheduling matters, unless otherwise directed by the Chief Judge.
Magistrates assigned to Franklin County shall hear family cases with pro se parties, except for uncontested family cases, simplified dissolution of marriage cases, juvenile dependency, termination of parental rights trials, juvenile delinquency, and protective injunctions.
Reviewer note: Composed from the court's own bytes during the 2nd's ledger close 2026-08-03; the ledger row is marked "active". Verbatim from the order, fetched live 2026-08-03; whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]
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