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17 verbatim requirements from admin. order (unlisted) [unlisted] MagistrateNewReportandOrderSubmissionProcedures.
20th Judicial Circuit. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from https://www.ca.cjis20.org/pdf/Charlotte/MagistrateNewReportandOrderSubmissionProcedures.pdf, harvested 2026-07-25; whitespace normalised only. • Referral must be submitted electronically via the Magistrate’s Florida E-portal. • Do not submit the proposed Report and Recommendations of the • Proposed Report and Recommendations of the Magistrate and Orders on Reports shall be submitted directly to the Magistrate via the Magistrate’s Florida E-portal. • Do not route proposed Report and Recommendations of the Magistrate and • WHOM TO CONTACT WITH QUESTIONS: Clerk’s Office Manager Grace Colon will respond to questions regarding the Clerk’s e-filing processes at grace.colon@charlotteclerk.com Documents must be submitted electronically via the Magistrate’s Florida E-Portal. All other inquiries, scheduling requests, etc. should be directed to: ksandrock@ca.cjis20.org • Orders on Report MUST be submitted to the Court utilizing recent versions of • Recent versions of Word include all versions from 2003 to now with a “docx” file type. “DOC, RTF, PDF, etc.” files are not acceptable. WordPerfect documents must be converted to Word files and saved as “docx” file type. It is recommended to save any forms/downloads available on the 20th Judicial • In the event that there is a computer outage at any of the several transmission nodes or networks that must be working in order for this process to work, you will retain the option to return to the previous practice of email or hard copy paper submission and continue functioning with limited interruption of service. EXHIBITS: • ORDER FORMAT: Report and Recommendations of the Magistrate and Orders on Report must be two separate documents. Report and Recommendations of the Magistrate and Orders on Report should be reviewed and edited so any paragraphs that are unnecessary or irrelevant to that case are stricken. All Reports and Recommendations of the Magistrate should end as follows: • COMMUNICATION WITH OPPOSING PARTIES: Report and Recommendations of the Magistrate and Orders on Report must be prepared and circulated to all attorneys/parties for approval before submitting to the court. If all attorneys/parties do not agree to the language contained in the Report and Recommendation of the Magistrate and Order on Report, a cover letter by the person who is disputing the language in the report and order must be submitted to the Magistrate detailing the specific language disagreement by the attorneys and the submission should be flagged as “opposed” in the e- portal. DESIGNATION OF E-MAIL ADDRESS: • Counsel is encouraged to request that pro se litigants and unrepresented interested parties who must be served with the Report and Recommendations of the Magistrate and Orders on Report agree to receive their copies by e-service via the E-Filing Portal. • Do NOT include physical addresses for parties being served electronically. NO DESIGNATION OF E-MAIL ADDRESS: • In cases where there are pro se parties or parties’ have not designated an e-mail address, the hard copy addresses must be listed on the Report and Recommendation and Order. • Stamped addressed envelopes must be furnished by the attorney who submitted the proposed Report and Recommendations of the Magistrate and Orders on • The attorney’s office submitting the documents must include the name and address of those persons to be served by hard copy, at the end of the Report and Order when submitting the proposed Report and Recommendations of the Magistrate and Orders on Report. -- 4 of 5 -- • To request training, contact 850-577-4609 You must save Report and Recommendations of the Magistrate and Orders on Report as two separate documents. • Any proposed documents submitted incorrectly will be rejected and must be resubmitted after the appropriate revisions have been made.
Referral must be submitted electronically via the Magistrate’s Florida E-portal.
Reviewer note: Order PDF sha256: af60be5b10ab0b2da32b7a9ac3b3e413de24b3280d49345af18204290740d5cb. Extracted from the order's own text layer.
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