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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. • Trial courts must coordinate and maximize court resources and establish linkages with community resources; • The Family Court Division ofthe Fourth Judicial Circuit shall include, at a minimum, the following types of cases:3 • Pursuant to Rule 2.050(b)(5), Rules of Judicial Administration, an administrative judge for the Family Division shall be designated to oversee and coordinate the Fourth Judicial Circuit’s comprehensive response to children and families in litigation.4 Sc; • Report ofthe Commission of Family Courts, 633 So. 2d 14, 17-18 (Fla. 1994) (An administrative judge must be appointed in each circuit to be directly responsible for administratively managing the family divisions,). • 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 to the Family Law 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 ofthe judges assigned to the Family Law Division is changed during any one year assignment period to ensure that family law judges are experienced in family law matters° and to ensure continuity and consistency can be maintained in the Division. • The Family Division shall receive case management services and support to enable the family courtjudges 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 fonns, 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 ofthe circuit court shall • Such assistance shall not include the provision of legal advice.“ • The Administrative Family 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}2 • 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 Procedure, Administrative Order No. 95-17, hr re: • Pursuant to Section 61.21, Florida Statutes, all parties to a dissolution of marriage proceeding with minor children or a paternity action which involves issues of parental responsibility shall be required to complete the parent education and family stabilization course prior to the entry of the court’s final judgement. • 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.'4 • 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 Family Divisions are safe environments for judges, non judicial staff and the public}5 • Due to safety concems,judges shall hold domestic violence hearings in the courtroom whenever possible. • The Chief Judge, the Administrative Family Law 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 and coordination,to print forms and notices immediately, to generate statistical reports, to provide public and inter-agency access to records and • 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 familylg relationship or children. • Any family law proceeding pending in the family law division, which involves a minor child or party that is then currently, or within the past 36 months was the subject of or party to a dependency or termination of parental rights ("TPR") proceeding in the dependency court ofthejuvenile division, or which involves a child who has ever been found to be dependent within the meaning of Chapter 39, Florida Statutes, 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. • 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 • OR BK 12268 PAGE 263 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 • Upon discovery ofthe existence of multiple pending cases, not otherwise subject to the provision above regarding family law and dependency cross-over, involving the same parties, judges shall confer to determine the best way to address the pending issues in these cases. • The judges assigned shall confer to determine how to coordinate the cases, including which division shall take precedence in managing the cases and determining issues, whether one case shall proceed while another is inactive or abated, or how judicial labor should be divided. • In order to avoid duplication and maximize the efficient use of resources, all reports, evaluations, memoranda and orders pertaining to cross-over cases shall be shared by the judges assigned to such cases, and shall be made available to counsel and the parties for the purposes of hearings, dispositions, and resolution of the matters before the court. • To the extent that any issue of confidentiality may apply, all legal requirements shall be observed.
Trial courts must coordinate and maximize court resources and establish linkages with community resources;
Reviewer note: Order PDF sha256: 78bb293205f1fe61ed15a2eadbb6733026a51f69fca909bf6d02ba74043b7093. 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.
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