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8 verbatim requirements from admin. order AO 12.3 - Supervised Visitation Programs (8/26/03) [Family Law].
20th Judicial Circuit. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from https://www.ca.cjis20.org/pdf/ao/ao_12_3.pdf, harvested 2026-07-25; whitespace normalised only. • Any supervised visitation program operating in the Twentieth Judicial Circuit that wishes to receive cases pursuant to a referral via court order, shall comply with the standards adopted by the Supreme Court through the administrative order referenced above. • Prior to accepting cases pursuant to any court order, the visitation programs shall enter into an agreement with the Chief Judge of the Twentieth Judicial Circuit Court as provided by the administrative order from the Supreme Court referenced above. • Judges who refer cases to any supervised visitation program shall utilize only the services of those programs that have entered into an agreement pursuant to this order. -- 1 of 4 -- • The Office of the Court Administrator shall maintain a list of supervised visitation programs in the Twentieth Judicial Circuit that comply with the terms of this order. • This list shall be updated periodically and circulated to any interested patiies. this • These programs have developed on an infonnal basis and do not operate under any uniform standards or guidelines. • Accordingly, the chief judge of each circuit is hereby directed to enter into an agreement with supervised visitation centers that are \villing to comply with the attached standards and effective July 1, 2000, trial judges, when ordering the parties to utilize a supervised visitation progran1, shall only order parties to supervised visitation programs that have entered into an agreement with the chief judge. • Supervised visitation programs operating under the auspices of tl1e court shall comply with these standards by January I, 2000.
Any supervised visitation program operating in the Twentieth Judicial Circuit that wishes to receive cases pursuant to a referral via court order, shall comply with the standards adopted by the Supreme Court through the administrative order referenced above.
Reviewer note: Order PDF sha256: 97cafa61a3127a4ad08ec0686abd920f46a460b84c42fd2baecda74626774b87. Extracted from the order's own text layer.
Judge Bell caps motions and responses at 5 pages for UMC hearings and 12 pages for special-set hearings.
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