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12 verbatim requirements from document (unlisted) [unlisted] How a motion is set for hearing and pleadings are set for trial.
20th Judicial Circuit. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from https://www.ca.cjis20.org/pdf/judge/How%20a%20motion%20is%20set%20for%20hearing%20and%20pleadings%20are%20set%20for%20trial.pdf, harvested 2026-07-25; whitespace normalised only. • However, unlike a dentist’s receptionist setting up appointments, the court’s Judicial Assistant must depend on the party to declare how much time the party needs for the hearing. • This is a fundamental due process: both sides must be heard on the motion. • So the time the movant requires to present the motion must be doubled by the movant when requesting hearing time in order to allow the opponent equal time. • Since the hearing is most likely an evidentiary hearing, the time required must include time for (a) opening statements; • If the time requested expires before both sides have been heard, then the court must continue the matter to a future date, a date that the party must obtain from the court’s Judicial Assistant. • So, the party requesting hearing time must double the time requested so the other side has the same amount of time to present its witnesses and have them cross examined. • Setting Action for Trial -- 3 of 6 -- 4 (a) “ ... the court ... shall enter an order setting the action for trial.” • Pleadings and Motions (a) “There shall be a complaint or when so designated by a statute or rule, a petition and an answer to it. ...” (b) “An application to the court for an order shall be by motion ...” • Civil Procedure 1.540, and that “[s]trict compliance with Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.440 is required and failure to do so is reversible error.” (Citations omitted.) • So, from these rules and this case law we see that pleadings must be set for trial by a trial order and motions are noticed for hearing by a party obtaining hearing time from the court’s Judicial Assistant. • This is, again, fundamental due process, that is, the process that is required by the Florida Rules of Court. • A proceeding for dissolution of marriage ... shall be commenced by filing ... a petition ...”
However, unlike a dentist’s receptionist setting up appointments, the court’s Judicial Assistant must depend on the party to declare how much time the party needs for the hearing.
Reviewer note: Order PDF sha256: 0c90babc39ef9af9a612bafdc8d149fab52af161b388bf1ba2924198ed1f616c. 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.
Judge Alijewicz requires every motion for attorney's fees and/or costs to attach a document detailing time records — no records, no fee award.
Judge Corlew bars informal contact: every communication with the Court must be in writing, filed with the Clerk, with copies furnished to all parties — and no calls to the JA to schedule or cancel UMC.