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2 verbatim requirements on continuances.
Eighth Judicial Circuit — DIVISION/CIRCUIT-WIDE - Family only. Practices change without notice; the court's own published text controls. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from the published source, captured 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. • AO 5. 01 (v1) Page 14 Unified Family Court Effective: February 21, 2006 In all instances in which a litigant is a party to two or more related pending Family Division cases, none of which is a dependency case, the cases shall be assigned or transferred to the division to which that party’s first related case was assigned. When a petition for protection against dom estic violence (including repeat violence, dating violence, and sexual violence) is filed and another Family Division case is pending, the case shall be assigned to the division to which the pending family case is assigned. Each Family Division judge will have a time set aside each week to hold return hearings. The time for ea ch judge will be designated in the Master Calendar. Petitions for protection filed when there are no other pending family cases shall be assigned to Division DV. “Pending” shall be defined for the purpose of this order as any Family Division case over which the court has jurisd iction. 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 that otherwise would be heard by the hearing officer, notwithstanding that any party or child therein is also involved in a related Family Division case. Upon notification by a judge or judge’s designee, the Cle rk shall conjoin and transfer a case from one division to another to accomplish the goals of the Unified Family Court. B. Domestic Violence Cases One judge from the Family Division is assigned as the domestic violence judge. That judge will have the primary responsibility for reviewin g and acting on all petitions seeking an injunction for protection against domestic violence, repeat violence, dating violence, or sexual violence, except those that have a corresponding Unified Family Court case. However, in deciding whether or not to grant temporary injunctive relief, the judge must co nsider the written petition on an ex parte basis. The domestic violence judge is also assigned the responsibility for conducting evidentiary hearings to consider whether to enter final injunctions for protection in all cases in • Administrative Order No. 5.1121 Page 18 Parenting Coordination in Family Law Cases 9.1 Copies of all parenting coordinator's reports to the court shall be sent to the parties, their attorneys, and the guardian ad litem. The parentin g coordinator's reports are not confidential and may be presented to the court by the parties or cou nsel according to rules of evidence. In cases where there is a history domestic violence, the par enting coordinator shall take necessary steps to protect certain personal information about the victim that may be necessary to protect the safety of the victim and integrity of the parenting coordination process. 9.2 If either party wants the parenting coordinator to testify on any matter, he or she must first file a motion and notice of hearing and show good cause in the motion and at the hearing why the court should require the coordinator to testify. The coordinator must be given a copy of the motion and notice of hearing. The requesting party shall initially be responsible to compensate the parenting coordinator for his or her attendance at court. 9.3 During the term of appointment of the parent ing coordinator, the court will schedule status conferences to monitor the parenting coordination process. 9.4 The parenting coordinator shall not be called as a witness in any court proceeding regarding change of primary residence except by order of cour t based on good cause shown in exceptional cases. 9.5 A parenting coordinator who is called to tes tify in a court proceeding is not automatically disqualified from participating in further parenting coordination efforts with the family. However, following such testimony, the court in its discreti on may order substitution of a new parenting coordinator or the parenting coordinator may voluntarily determine that such substitution would be in the best interest of the child(ren).
AO 5. 01 (v1) Page 14 Unified Family Court Effective: February 21, 2006 In all instances in which a litigant is a party to two or more related pending Family Division cases, none of which is a dependency case, the cases shall be assigned or transferred to the division to which that party’s first related case was assigned. When a petition for protection against dom estic violence (including repeat violence, dating violence, and sexual violence) is filed and another Family Division case is pending, the case shall be assigned to the division to which the pending family case is assigned. Each Family Division judge will have a time set aside each week to hold return hearings. The time for ea ch judge will be designated in the Master Calendar. Petitions for protection filed when there are no other pending family cases shall be assigned to Division DV. “Pending” shall be defined for the purpose
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Florida follows the federal summary-judgment standard. The motion must be served at least 40 days before the hearing; the nonmovant's response is due no later than 20 days before the hearing.
How Florida procedural deadlines are computed: exclude the trigger day; count every day for periods of 7 days or more; for periods under 7 days, skip intermediate weekends and legal holidays; roll forward when the last day is a weekend or holiday.
Judge Siperstein requires every motion to be set within 5 days of filing and heard within 60 days, or it may be deemed abandoned.