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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 (UFC). • The UFC shall include, at a minimum, the following types of cases:3 3REQUlIREMENT; • Pursuant to Rule 2.2l5(b)(5), Rules of Judicial Administration, an administrative judge for the UFC shall be designated to oversee and coordinate the Fourth Judicial Circuit’s comprehensive response to children and families in litigationf‘ At the discretion of the Chief Judge, separate administrative judges may be appointed for the Family Division or Juvenile Division. fig • Report of the Commission of Familv Courts. 633 So. 2d 14, 17-18 (Fla. 1994) (An administrative judge must be appointed in each circuit to be directly responsible for administratively -- 3 of 13 -- on BK 18525 PAGE 1538 • 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 familiess 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 Courtapproved forms, instructions, definitions, and procedural 7SUGGESTION: • As part of its intake function, the clerk of the circuit court shall provide ministerial assistance to pro se litigants. • The Administrative UFC Judge shall work with otherjudges 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 • Circuitlwill utilize the one family-one judge model in Duval County. ln 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. • Any action pending in the Family Law Division, which involves a minor child or party that is then currently the subject of or party to a dependency or termination of parental rights (TPR) proceeding in the dependency court of the juvenile division, or which inilolves 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, unless the dependencycourt has tenninated its jurisdiction over the child. • Suph proceeding shall remain in the dependency section of the Juvenile Division for purpose of any further actions tuitil 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 “REQUIREMENT: • 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 currently heard in this Circuit, notwithstanding that any party or child therein is also involved in a dependency action. • 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 First Amended • The judge presiding over such hearings shall grant or deny the injunction on the claims raised in the petition for the injunction. • 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 post-'j_udgment proceedings, such as motions to vacate, modify or enforce injunctions, and motions for contempt, domestic violence cases shall be referred to the juvenile or family law division of the circuit court using the following criteria: • Statutes, the case shall be transferred to the Juvenile Division that has jurisdiction over the child or patties (but not if the court had previously terminated its jurisdiction over the child); • 2. if there is no related dependency proceeding, the domestic violence case shall be transferred to a Family Law Division in which there is either a pending or closed action between the same parties or an action that involves any child also involved in the domestic violence action; and • 3. if there are no related cases as defined in subparagraph one or two, the domestic violence case shall be assigned to a Family Law Division on a random basis if additional action is necessary. • Pursuant to Florida Rule of Family Law Procedure 12.003, when multiple related family cases are pending, the related cases must be handled before one judge unless impractical. • Upon discovery of two or more cases with substantially the same issues and same parties, the latest filed case shall be closed or consolidated into the first filed of the related actions. • Upon discovery of the existence of other multiple pending related cases, not otherwise subject to the cross-over provisions in Section VI., A or B, should it be impractical for one judge -to handle all pending related cases, judges shall confer to determine the best way to address the pending issues in these cases.
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: c414ef49e626af3bbc1c482335c073a78c2da999d5552fd0a160be5c14832932. Extracted from the order's own text layer. One of several documents the Clerk publishes under order number 1992-01.
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