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30 verbatim requirements from Fourth Circuit administrative order 1992-01 (a further document filed under the same order number).
Fourth Judicial Circuit (Duval). Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from Fourth Circuit administrative order 1992-01 as published by the Duval County Clerk, harvested 2026-07-26; whitespace normalised only. • WHEREAS, amendments to the administrative order are required to address changes to the Unified Family Court model as espoused in In re: • Trial courts must coordinate and maximize court resources and establish linkages with community resources; • The Family Court Division and Juvenile Court Division of the Fourth Judicial Circuit shall constitute a Unified Family Court (“UF C"). • The UFC shall include, at a minimum, the following types of cases:3 3REQUlREMENT: • Pursuant to Rule 2.21 5(b)(5), Rules of Judicial Administration, an administrative judge for the UF C shall be designated to oversee and coordinate the Fotuth Judicial Circuit's comprehensive response to children and families in litigation.4 At the discretion of the Chief Judge, separate administrative judges may be appointed for the Family Division or Juvenile Division. • Instead, we leave it to each circuit to devise a plan for coordination of cases within the family division to achieve the goals of the model family court.). 4 5566 l_I1 1'6I_ll§p0IT Qflhe Commission of Family Courts, 633 So. 2d l4, 17-l 8 (Fla. 1994) (An administrative judge must be appointed in each circuit to be directly responsible for administratively managing the family divisions.). -- 3 of 14 -- l • Because of the size of the Fourth Judicial Circuit, the court shall also designate an administrative UFC judge of Clay County and Nassau County. • The administrative judges shall work together to ensure genuine coordination of cases and a coordinated approach to the overall handling of cases and utilization of resources. • Judges are assigned either to the Family Law Division or Juvenile Division for a term not to exceed two years unless she or he specifically requests to serve for a longer period of time. • A rotation schedule shall be established to ensure that no more than one-half of the judges assigned to any UFC division is changed during any one-year assignment period to ensure that UFC judges are experienced in matters relating to children and farniiiesfi and to ensure continuity and consistency can be maintained in the Division. • The UFC shall receive case management services and support to enable the family and juvenile court judges to assess, differentiate, and monitor the resources needed for handling cases, to be able to identify all collateral cases affecting the parties involved, and to monitor the movement of cases through the judicial process. • The Fourth Judicial Circuit shall ensure that self-help programs provide litigants with Florida Supreme Court approved forms, instructions, definitions, and procedural information to persons who choose to represent themselves consistent with Rule 12.750, • As part of its intake function, the clerk of the circuit court shall provide ministerial assistance to pro se litigants. • Such assistance shall not include the provision of legal advice." • The Administrative UF C Judge shall work with other judges within the division to develop a policy to ensure that cases involving domestic violence are identified and managed in a manner that is organized, timely and sensitive to the special dynamics involved in these cases.” • The court shall determine whether a referral to ADR is appropriate in light of the domestic violence issues or whether the safety of the parties and the ADR process would be compromised such that a referral to ADR should not be made. • Referrals shall be made in accordance with relevant Rules of Family and Juvenile Procedure, Administrative Order • Report ofthe Family Court Steering Committee, 2000-2002 Appendix A. -- 7 of 14 -- proceeding with minor children or a paternity action that involves issues of parental responsibility shall be required to complete the Parent Education and Family Stabilization • At a minimum, such strategies shall ensure the availability of crisis intervention and long-term counseling/treatment programs. • Additionally, the strategies shall ensure that compliance is monitored when such services are court-ordered.“ • The Chief Judge and the Administrative Family Law Judge shall collaborate with relevant stakeholders and the Courthouse Security Committee to develop a plan to ensure that adequate and sufficient security personnel and equipment is available to ensure that UF C Divisions are safe environments for judges, non judicial staff and the public.” • Due to safety concems, judges shall hold domestic violence hearings in the courtroom whenever possible. • Sheriff shall develop safety procedures for domestic violence cases that include separating petitioners and respondents before the hearing, monitoring hallways outside the courtroom and providing staggered departure times for the parties when an injtmction is entered. • The Fourth Judicial Circuit shall use available technology to access information essential to case management and coordination, to print forms and notices immediately, to generate statistical reports, to provide public and inter-agency access to records and to allow teleconferencing and the appearance of witnesses by electronic means.“ “REQUIREMENT: • Parent coordinators shall be mental health professionals with either a masters or doctorate degree. • In identifying related cases, the Fourth Circuit recognizes that many family cases involve individuals and issues that are interrelated, but do not involve a family"; relationship or children. • Chapter 39, Florida Statutes, shall be transferred by the judge presiding in the Family Law • Such proceeding shall remain in the dependency section of the Juvenile Division for purpose of any further actions until such time that the child reaches the age of majority and is not otherwise legally dependent on his or her parents, such as in the case of physical or mental disability. • This paragraph shall not be construed, however, to prevent child support hearing officers from hearing any Title IV-D or Title IV-D eligible child support proceedings as otherwise cun'ent1y heard in this Circuit, notwithstanding that any party or child therein is also involved in a dependency action. "in re: report ernie Family Court Steering Committee, 794 So. 2a 518, 52s (Fla. 2001); ln re: • Delinquency cases in which the child is also the subject of a dependency case shall be subject to the crossover reassigmnent rules set forth in the First Amended
WHEREAS, amendments to the administrative order are required to address changes to the Unified Family Court model as espoused in In re:
Reviewer note: Order PDF sha256: af42158c4c8f5c45aa793f6448fcb1752dbdc6b0d6d94853d5e73057a53313ea. Extracted from the order's own text layer. One of several documents the Clerk publishes under order number 1992-01.
18 verbatim requirements from 5th Jud. Cir., M-2018-65 — sha256-hashed 2026-07-25.
13 verbatim requirements from 5th Jud. Cir., Interpreter Services – English — sha256-hashed 2026-07-25.
25 verbatim mandatory provisions from AO 2022-004.