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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, because amendments to the Administrative Order are required to address changes to the Unified Family Court, the Eleventh Amended Administrative Order No. 1992-01 is amended to remove footnotes, re-number the paragraphs, and update the following sections: • The Family Court Division and Juvenile Court Division of the Fourth Judicial Circuit shall constitute a Unified Family Court (UFC). • The UFC shall include, at a minimum, the following types of cases: • Pursuant to Florida Rule of General Practice and Judicial Administration 2.2l5(b)(5), an administrative judge for the UFC shall be designated to oversee and coordinate the Fourth Judicial • These Administrative Judges shall manage all Court divisions, including Family'Court, and shall work together with the UFC Administrative • The Administrative Judge shall work with the Chief Judge as necessary to ensure that no more than one-half of the judges assigned to any UFC. division are changed during any one-year period. • 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 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 self-help programs provide litigants with Florida Supreme Court forms, instructions, definitions, and procedural information to persons who choose to represent themselves consistent with Florida Family Law Rule of Procedure 12.750. • As part of its intake function, the Clerk of the Court shall provide ministerial assistance to pro se litigants. • The Administrative Family Law Judge shall work with other judges within the division to develop a policy that will ensure that cases involving domestic violence are identified and managed in a mamrer 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 • Referrals shall be made according to the relevant Florida Family Law Rules of Procedure and • Pursuant to section 61.21, Florida Statutes, all parties to dissolution of marriage proceedings with minor children or a paternity action that involves issues of parental responsibility shall be required to complete a Parent Education and Family Stabilization Course approved by the Fourth Judicial • This requirement generally may not be discharged by enrollment in an intemet or other such distance learning course without prior Court approval. • 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 safeguard judges, staff, and the public. 6 -- 6 of 14 -- • Due to safety concerns, judges shall hold domestic violence hearings in the courtroom whenever possible. • Judge, and the 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 injunction is entered. • The Fourth Judicial Circuit shall use available technology to access information essential to case management, to print forms and notices immediately, to generate statistical reports, to provide public and inter-agency access to records, and to allow the appearance of witnesses by electronic means. • In identifying related cases, the Fourth Judicial Circuit recognizes that many family cases involve inter-related individuals and issues, but do not involve a family relationship or children? • Division that involves a minor child who is then currently the subject of or party to a dependency orutennination of parental rights (TPR) proceeding in the dependency court of the Juvenile Division, or that involves a child who has ever been found to be dependent within the meaning of Chapter 39, Florida Statutes, and jurisdiction was retained when protective supervision previously terminated, shall be transferred by the judge presiding in the Family Law Division to the dependency court of the Juvenile Division for disposition of the entire family law proceeding, unless the dependency court has terminated its jurisdiction over the child. • Such proceeding shall remain in the dependency section of the Juvenile Division for any further action until such time that the child reaches the age of majority and is not 2 Pursuant to section 39.0l(27), Florida Statutes, family is defined as a collective body of persons, consisting of a child and a parent, legal custodian, or adult relative, in which: • Delinquency cases in which the child is also the subject of a dependency case shall be subject to the crossover reassignment rules set forth in the Third Amended • The presiding judge shall grant or deny the injunction on the claims raised in the petition for the injunction. • The domestic violence hearing judge shall not extend the temporary injunction merely to avoid holding a full evidentiary hearing or entering a permanent injunction. • Domestic violence hearing judges shall endeavor to ensure compliance with all Court orders including holding routine order to show cause hearings, as necessary. • Motions for rehearing, including motions that address errors in the hearing procedure or sufficiency of the evidence, shall be referred to the judge who conducted the final hearing. • All other domestic violence post-judgment proceedings, meaning after a final injunction has been entered, including motions to vacate, modify, or enforce injunctions and motions for contempt shall be referred to the Juvenile Division or Family Law Division of the Circuit Court using the following criteria: • If the domestic violence case, resulting in a final injunction, involves a minor child or party who is currently the subject of or party to a dependency or TPR proceeding in the dependency court of the Juvenile Division, or the case involves a child who has ever been found to be dependent or had the rights of his or her parents terminated under Chapter 39, Florida Statutes, the case shall be transferred to the Juvenile Division with jurisdiction over the child or parties but not if the Court had previously terminated its jurisdiction over the child. • If there is no related open dependency proceeding, the domestic violence case, after the entry of a final injunction, shall be transferred to a Family
WHEREAS, because amendments to the Administrative Order are required to address changes to the Unified Family Court, the Eleventh Amended Administrative Order No. 1992-01 is amended to remove footnotes, re-number the paragraphs, and update the following sections:
Reviewer note: Order PDF sha256: 16ae6e4a9ea2df95c009f87bade7173a0ed5cd6da72e63ac3d3db6236836cfcd. Extracted from the order's own text layer. One of several documents the Clerk publishes under order number 1992-01.
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