General Magistrate: practice requirements — Columbia County, FL · BenchPath

Third Cir. — General Magistrate: practice requirements

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Judge PreferencesThird Judicial Circuit, General Magistrate practice page (thirdcircuitfl.org/general-magistrate/) — harvested live and sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Summary

6 verbatim requirements published on the Third Circuit's General Magistrate page (thirdcircuitfl.org/general-magistrate/).

Applies to

Third Judicial Circuit — matters before the General Magistrate only. Practices change without notice; the circuit's own page controls. Procedural information only; not legal advice.

Requirement

• If an attorney reserves time on the Magistrate’s calendar, the attorney must file a Notice of Hearing within five (5) days of reserving the time. • If the hearing time will not be used, the attorney shall contact Court Administration to remove the hearing from the Magistrate’s calendar. • Mail, and/or Electronic Mail in accordance with the corresponding addresses listed therein on this _________ day of _____________, 20__ to the following: ________________________________________________ Judicial Assistant Pursuant to the standing order of this Court, counsel for the Plaintiff shall distribute a copy of the foregoing to all parties not utilizing an electronic mail address and file a “Notice of Filing” for the Certificate of Service. • Please do not call the Court expecting to speak with a judge about any case. • If you do not want your e-mail address released in response to a public records request, do not send electronic mail to this entity. • Please contact your local Bar Association for an attorney referral list if you do not have your own lawyer.

Source of truth

If an attorney reserves time on the Magistrate’s calendar, the attorney must file a Notice of Hearing within five (5) days of reserving the time.

Official source: 3rd Circuit — Order categories
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 9, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-08 (live text containment) | prior: benchpath-judge-sweep-2026-07-24

Reviewer note: Page sha256: c09c653630661cdf139c92f3bd632f791b6350360fa14841f14bc1a166962595. Published during the per-judge sweep: order-level and division-level harvests left this officer with no rule of their own. Re-scoped 2026-09-02 (audit M-15): the page is the circuit's General Magistrate practice page, not a judge; the "Appointments | General Magistrate" label was a navigation menu. Court-scoped; the byte-identical twin fl3-judge-appointments-assignment-general-magistrate is archived with this rule as its successor. Verbatim from the circuit's own published General Magistrate page, harvested 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. Only sentences carrying mandatory language are reproduced. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]