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18 verbatim mandatory provisions from AO 2018-001.
Third Judicial Circuit (Columbia, Dixie, Hamilton, Lafayette, Madison, Suwannee, Taylor). Check the order's own effective and rescission dates before relying on it. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from the order's own text layer, harvested 2026-07-25; whitespace normalised only. No OCR. Only sentences carrying mandatory language are reproduced — the full order is in custody and is the controlling text. • Effective immediately, the Time-sharing Guidelines, dated January 5,2018, as attached, is approved for use in the Third Judicial Circuit and shall be made available to litigants by all self-help programs, the Clerks of Circuit Court, and the Family Court Support Unit. • Pursuant to Administrative Order 2002-007A, all fonns presently used throughout the Circuit, which are not either Supreme Court approved fonns or fonns approved by the Chief Judge of the Third Circuit, shall be discarded and not used in pro se family law cases. • The parties shall have time-sharing in accordance with the schedule below: • Week to week - the parties shall have equal time with the child(ren) by alternating their time-sharing with the child(ren) weekly. • Said time-sharing shall commence after school on Monday until returning the child(ren) to school the following Monday. • The parent who is not exercising time-sharing during a given week shall be entitled to have the child(ren) for time-sharing from Wednesday after school until returning the child(ren) to school on Thursday. • Thanksgiving I Fall Break shall be split Thursday at 2:00 p.rn. • The frrst part of the break shall go the parent whose regularly scheduled weekend falls on the beginning of the break and the second part shall go to the parent whose weekend falls on the end of the break. • Christmas I Winter Break shall be equally divided each year - one parent shall have the child from the day the child gets out of school and shall keep the child for exactly one-half of the Christmas break, excluding Christmas day. • The other parent shall have the second-haif of the Christmas break and will retmn the child back to school. • The parent with the frrst half of the break shall keep the child until 2:00 p.m. with the other parent having the child from 2:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.rn. • The Father shall exercise the frrst half in odd years, the Mother the ftrst half in even years. • The frrst half shall go to the parent whose regularly scheduled weekend falls on the begiuoing of the break and the second half shall go to the parent whose weekend falls on the end of the break. • Mother's Day and Father's Day - The Mother shall have time-sharing on Mother's Day from 9:00 a.rn. - 6:00 p.rn. and the Father shall have time-sharing on Father's Day from 9:00 am. - 6:00 p.m. • This schedule shall be followed even if the holiday is not that parent's normally scheduled time-sharing period. • Summer Break - During the summer one of the two shall apply (initial one ouly): ~_(I) the regular schedule noted in paragraph A(l) above shall apply with the exception that the Father I Mother shall have two unintenupted weeks of time-sharing with the minor child. • If the Father I Mother elects to exercise this additional time, he/she shall notify the other parent, in writing, by May IS'" of each year as to when he/she will be exercising that time. __(2) the regular schedule noted in paragraph A(2) above shall apply with the exception that the exchanges shall take place at the Mother's and Father's homes, unless both parents agree to a different meeting place. • Each parent shall be entitled to reasonable telephone, or other type of electronic voice contact, with the minor child.
Effective immediately, the Time-sharing Guidelines, dated January 5,2018, as attached, is approved for use in the Third Judicial Circuit and shall be made available to litigants by all self-help programs, the Clerks of Circuit Court, and the Family Court Support Unit.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 98ed306b0f2b487a15c2e58458db4ec98c5db0448f25356ab046ddc75ff1017d (79193 bytes).
25 verbatim mandatory provisions from AO 2022-004.
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