1 verbatim requirement on case management.
Eighth Judicial Circuit — DIVISION/CIRCUIT-WIDE - Security/Emergency 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 11.30 Page 1 Extending Bond Forfeiture Deadlines Effective: April 15, 2020 THE EIGHTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF FLORIDA ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 11.30 EXTENDING BOND FORFEITURE DEADLINES WHEREAS, the outbreak of COVID-19 has caused a public health emergency; and WHEREAS, The Governor of the State of Florida has declared a state of emergency; and WHEREAS, The Florida Supreme Court and this Court have issued Administrative Orders setting forth emergency procedures during this period; and WHEREAS, the court must fulfill its responsibility to protect the health and well-being of the public by adopting social distancing procedures in the Eighth Circuit to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED: 1. All deadlines pertaining to the forfe iture of bonds and /or the paymen t of bonds forfeited, are extended until July 1, 2020. 2. This Order shall take ef fect upon signing and shall continue in force unt il 5:00 pm on June 30, 2020. ORDERED ON this 15 day of April, 2020. James P. Nilon, Chief Judge
AO 11.30 Page 1 Extending Bond Forfeiture Deadlines Effective: April 15, 2020 THE EIGHTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF FLORIDA ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 11.30 EXTENDING BOND FORFEITURE DEADLINES WHEREAS, the outbreak of COVID-19 has caused a public health emergency; and WHEREAS, The Governor of the State of Florida has declared a state of emergency; and WHEREAS, The Florida Supreme Court and this Court have issued Administrative Orders setting forth emergency procedures during this period; and WHEREAS, the court must fulfill its responsibility to protect the health and well-being of the public by adopting social distancing procedures in the Eighth Circuit to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED: 1. All deadlines pertaining to the forfe iture of bonds and /or the paymen t of bonds forfeited, are extended until July 1, 2020. 2. This Order shall take ef fect upon signing and shall
Reviewer note: Source sha256: 86013ac26bdac4beca2b91ca8acc1b50a04d5d735d44bde00b771704e6f07001. Corpus categories: CASE_MANAGEMENT_OR_TRACK. Operative status as recorded: CURRENT_DIRECTORY_CURRENT_VERSION. Published during the 2026-07-24 completeness pass.
Parties in dissolution and most family financial cases must exchange a financial affidavit and specified financial documents within 45 days of service of the initial pleading, file a certificate of compliance, and supplement as circumstances change.
Small claims cases (up to $8,000) begin with a mandatory pretrial conference where the court narrows issues and typically orders mediation. Failure to appear can result in default or dismissal.
CV-E runs a structured 150-day case management conference track with published CMO templates for jury, non-jury, and complex settings, plus a projected-vs-actual trial period system and 2026–2027 published trial calendars.