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Eighth Cir. AO 7.08: Guardianship Education Requirements for Non-Professional Guardians

High confidence· verified September 14, 2026Administrative OrdersEighth Judicial Circuit Administrative Order 7.08, "Guardianship Education Requirements for Non-Professional Guardians" — https://circuit8.org/wp-content/uploads/7.08-v4.pdf — sha256-hashed 2026-09-14

Summary

Eighth Judicial Circuit Administrative Order 7.08 (Guardianship Education Requirements for Non-Professional Guardians): 30 operative paragraphs verbatim from the order as the circuit publishes it.

Applies to

Eighth Judicial Circuit — all counties of the circuit. Administrative orders are amended and rescinded by later orders; the circuit's own index controls (the index lists it as a current instrument on 2026-09-14). Procedural information only; not legal advice.

Requirement

• Guardianship education course requirements may be met by attending an approved course in-person or online if available. • 2. A list of court-approved 8-hour and 4-hour guardianship education courses are available on the Florida State Guardianship Association’s website at https://www.floridaguardians.com.* 3. • After completing an approved guardianship education course, the guardian shall execute an affidavit of completion for the applicable course. • The affidavit of completion must be signed under oath and filed in the court as required by Florida Probate Rule 5.625. • Sample affidavits of completion for the 8-hour guardianship course and the 4-hour guardianship course are attached. • 4. Expenses incurred by the guardian to satisfy the education requirement may be paid from the ward's estate, unless the court directs that such expenses be paid by the guardian individually. § 744.3145(5), Fla. Stat. TRAINING FOR GUARDIANS AND GUARDIAN ADVOCATES OF TACACHALE RESIDENTS 5. • The training course and videotape developed by the Tacachale staff is hereby approved for use in the Eighth Judicial Circuit in Tacachale's guardian education program. • * Note: The Court is not promoting any of the companies or organizations offering the listed guardianship education courses. • The courses are compiled by the Florida State Guardianship Association and are approved only to meet the instruction and training requirements of s. 744.3145, Florida Statutes, for the Eighth Judicial Circuit. • The staff of Tacachale, under the supervision of its Superintendent, as employees of the Department of Heath and Rehabilitative Services of the State of Florida, is hereby approved as an organization to coordinate, teach, supervise, and administer this education course. • 7. This education course and all matters pertaining thereto shall continue to be under the authority of the Administrative Judge of the Eighth Judicial Circuit’s Probate Division. • 8. All guardians and guardian advocates of Tacachale residents or similarly situated developmentally disabled persons shall complete the education course offered by Tacachale unless otherwise ordered by the Court. • Guardians, who are attorneys, may comply with the requirements of guardian education by certifying under penalties of perjury that they have read the materials provided for in an approved guardian education course. • 10. Upon the certification being filed, the attorney shall supply the Court with an order waiving guardian education. • PROFESSIONAL GUARDIANS 11. • The provisions of this Order do not apply to professional guardians. • This Order replaces Administrative Order No. 7.08 (v3) entitled “Approval of Guardian Education Courses Pursuant to the Florida Guardianship Law §744.3145, Florida Statutes” entered January 30, 2015.

Source of truth

Guardianship education course requirements may be met by attending an approved course in-person or online if available.

Official source: 8th Circuit — Administrative Orders
Source health: Healthy · checked October 3, 2026
Effective date: September 29, 2023
Last verified: September 14, 2026benchpath-ao-ledger-c8-2026-09-14

Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-14 from BenchPath's custody copy (file cfa09865072a.pdf; 212,725 bytes, 5 page(s), native text layer): the index lists it as a current instrument on 2026-09-14 (https://circuit8.org/eighth-judicial-circuit-court/administrative-orders/); the operative paragraphs after the ORDERED marker are quoted whole, whitespace normalised only; signature block, page markers and stamps dropped. Effective date from the order's own date line where present, else the index date. [Rebuilt 2026-09-27: the published text had been cut at line and page breaks (30 fragments, many beginning or ending mid-sentence); it now publishes the 17 whole sentences those fragments belong to, verbatim from the rule's own source (custody (sha256-matched, 1 document)), with printed page markers and running headers removed.]

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