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Verbatim from the published source, captured 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. • Bradford County Circuit Civil and Family Law Procedures All proposed orders and cover letters must be submitted to the judicial assistant, through email to SimoneauxA@circuit8.org in Word format, only. Proposed orders should NOT be filed with the Clerk of Court or filed through the e-portal. Orders - Unrepresented Parties/Pro-Se Parties: Proposed Orders and Judgments - Parties not represented by counsel and who have not consented to e-service or do not have the ability to electronically serve orders, may provide proposed orders and final judgments in paper format either by mail or hand-delivery to the Levy County Courthouse, Attn: Judge Wright, 945 North Temple Ave. Starke, Florida 32091-2110. The preferred method is to send proposed orders and final judgments in Word format, via email to SimoneauxA@circuit8.org - Parties not represented by counsel can elect to receive orders from the Court by electronic mail. To elect this option, you must complete an Authorization form (available in the Clerk’s office) and file it with the Clerk of the Court. This form of service is typically more efficient and may allow you to receive notices and orders more quickly. - If you are submitting a proposed order or judgment for the Court’s consideration and there are parties who have not consented to use of e-mail service, stamped addressed envelopes must be mailed or hand delivered to the Judicial Assistant, Anita Simoneaux. Please clip the envelopes together, along with a sticky note that indicates the case name and case number. - Orders will not be entered until the motion has been docketed and imaged by the Clerk. - All orders or final judgments shall include a certificate of service at the bottom of the order. Please indicate the name of the party who is to receive the order, as well as that party’s e-mail/e-service address OR mailing address, if a hard copy is required. - Attorneys: Proposed Orders and Judgments - Proposed Orders and Final Judgments are NOT accepted via e-filing by the Levy County Clerk of Court. Motions should continue to be e-filed with the Clerk’s Office. - Proposed Orders and Final Judgments shall be emailed to SimoneauxA@circuit8.org in Word Please do not send Proposed Orders, Motions, or supporting documentation by United States Mail. All paper filings by attorneys will be refused without processing. - The subject line in the email which submits your proposed order should provide the following: Proposed Order/Final Judgment, [case number]. - Please provide the Proposed Order or Final Judgment in Word Format, only, through email, including an enclosure letter and a courtesy copy of the Motion. This should be done ONLY after you have e-filed the motion and supporting documentation (if any), through the e-portal. - If you are submitting a proposed order or judgment for the Court’s consideration and there are parties who have not consented to use of e-mail service, stamped addressed envelopes must be mailed or hand delivered to the Judicial Assistant, Anita Simoneaux. Please clip the envelopes together, along with a sticky note that indicates the case name and case number - Orders will not be entered until the motion has been docketed and imaged by the Clerk. - All orders or final judgments shall include a certificate of service at the bottom of the order. Please indicate the name of the party who is to receive the order, as well as that party’s e-mail/e-service address OR mailing address, if a hard copy is required. The certificate of service should include the specific email address to be served and should not generally include “counsel of record”. Envelopes: Please be advised that all envelopes and postage provided by the parties become the property of the Eighth Judicial Circuit and if not used in the particular case provided, may be used in other cases. Memorandum of Law/Case Law Submissions: Any binders containing Memorandum of Law and/or Case Law Submissions must be mailed (however NOT via email) or hand delivered to the judge’s office at least five (5) business days before the hearing date on your motion. Presentation of Evidence: - If you intend to present any evidence or documents to the court at your hearing, you must pre-mark all items for identification (ex. Plaintiff’s A,B,C, etc.) and serve a copy to all parties no less than three (3) business days prior to the hearing. If there are any pro se parties involved in your case, a copy of the pre-marked evidence shall be served on them, via US Mail, no later than ten (10) days prior to the hearing. - In addition, a PAPER COPY of all pre-marked evidence, from each side, shall be received by the Court no later than the deadline contained in your specific order, typically 5 business days prior to the hearing date. This packet will be used by the Court to stamp the official evidence as it is entered at the hearing/trial. - Please confer with all parties prior to the hearing to determine whether there are any stipulations as to the admissibility of evidence. Any pre-marked evidence which is stipulated, should be so noted. All other pre-marked evidence will be considered opposed. Status Conferences/Non-Evidentiary Hearings - Judge Wright does not generally* require a written motion/order for telephonic appearance at status conferences or non-evidentiary hearings. Any party who wishes to appear telephonically must confirm approval to do so with his judicial assistant at least 10 days prior to the hearing, and must notify all other parties and offer to include them in a conference call to the Court. If multiple parties will be appearing telephonically the party who first seeks telephone appearance must coordinate the conference call unless otherwise agreed. If your office prepares a notice of hearing, it must include language noting who will appear telephonically and who will arrange the conference call, if applicable. - Parties appearing by telephone must initiate the call to the Court at the time of the scheduled hearing. If more than one party is appearing by telephone, the Court should be contacted last at the scheduled time after all parties are on the line. - Judge Wright will only consider written motions for a witness to appear telephonically, if all parties consent in writing, as per Florida Rule of Judicial Administration 2.530(d)(1). (*except in certain cases) Case Management Conferences - Requests to appear by phone at case management conferences should only be made after the written compliance statement has been timely e-filed as required by the Case Management Order. The last page of the Case Management Order contains instructions for telephonic appearance. Emergency Motions - A copy of any “Emergency” motion e-filed with the Clerk of Court and served upon opposing counsel should be provided to the Judge’s office for review via email. If the Court determines that a hearing should be granted, the judicial assistant will advise the moving party of an expedited date and time for the hearing. Parties shall confirm the Court’s receipt of any “emergency” motions. If the Court determines either an “emergency” hearing is necessary or an “expedited” hearing may instead occur, in those events, it may not be possible to coordinate the date/time of such a hearing with counsel. Scheduling/Hearing Requests - The judge’s scheduling calendars are not available online. Hearing dates and times are provided by the JA, either by phone or by e-mail request. When scheduling by email, the final email confirming a coordinated hearing date and time should include the case number, style of the case, the motion or motions being set, the attorneys and the amount of time being reserved. Email communications to coordinate hearings should only be between the attorneys’ offices and should not include the judicial assistant. Once a date has been agreed upon, an email should be sent to the judicial assistant confirming the date is still available on the Court’s calendar. Our office does not hold suggested dates for hearings and a hearing is not scheduled on the Court’s calendar unless you receive confirmation from our office/judicial assistant. A courtesy copy of the notice of hearing should be emailed to the judicial assistant. Discovery Motions - Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.380 requires the movant to provide a certificate of good faith with all discovery motions. More specifically, prior to scheduling any hearings on discovery motions, including, but not limited to, motions to compel, motions for protective orders, motions for sanctions, motions for extensions of time, etc., counsel for the moving party shall confer with counsel for the opposing party and thereafter file with the Clerk of the Court, contemporaneously with the discovery motion, a statement certifying that counsel has personally conferred with opposing counsel in a good faith effort to resolve by agreement the issues raised, without court intervention, and that counsel have been unable to do so. - If you are unable to resolve this issue after you have personally conferred, by telephone or in person, with opposing counsel and have filed a certificate of good faith, then our office will be happy to provide you with hearing dates. Our office is unable to provide you with any hearing dates on your Motion if your Motion does not contain (or you have not filed separately) a certificate of good faith as required by the rules. EX PARTE EMAILS OR CORRESPONDENCE Please note that the Code of Judicial Conduct governing behavior by judges prohibits the judges of the Eighth Judicial Circuit from discussing pending cases with the public and prohibits judges from talking to any party, without all other parties present. Please do not call or email the Court expecting to speak with a Judge about any case. If you have a comment or request to make, please file it in writing with the Clerk’s Office and serve a copy on all other parties. Please keep in mind that the Court is only allowed to consider arguments made in court and documents filed by actual parties to the case. Judges cannot ethically read or consider any other opinions or arguments about the case, and they
Bradford County Circuit Civil and Family Law Procedures All proposed orders and cover letters must be submitted to the judicial assistant, through email to SimoneauxA@circuit8.org in Word format, only. Proposed orders should NOT be filed with the Clerk of Court or filed through the e-portal. Orders - Unrepresented Parties/Pro-Se Parties: Proposed Orders and Judgments - Parties not represented by counsel and who have not consented to e-service or do not have the ability to electronically serve orders, may provide proposed orders and final judgments in paper format either by mail or hand-delivery to the Levy County Courthouse, Attn: Judge Wright, 945 North Temple Ave. Starke, Florida 32091-2110. The preferred method is to send proposed orders and final judgments in Word format, via email to SimoneauxA@circuit8.org - Parties not represented by counsel can elect to receive orders from the Co
Reviewer note: Source sha256: fca134bad91c8b91ea29caf6493e7a771028c287faf6dd01a6aa2bdfacfa0b9f. Corpus categories: COURTESY_COPIES | PROPOSED_ORDERS | CASE_MANAGEMENT_OR_TRACK | SCHEDULING_OR_CANCELLATION | FILING_OR_SERVICE. Operative status as recorded: LIVE_PAGE_CURRENT_AS_CRAWLED. Published during the 2026-07-24 completeness pass. SOURCE DRIFT MEASURED 2026-07-24: the page(s) these requirements were captured from have been edited since capture. A live re-read found 0 of 8 published requirements (0%) still present on 8 source pages (/courts-judges/alachua-county-criminal-division-i-proposed-orders/, /departments-services/division-procedures-and-proposed-orders/, /departments-services/division-procedures-and-proposed-orders/alachua-circuit-civil-division-l-procedures/). The missing text may have been reworded, moved, or withdrawn — BenchPath does not guess which. Confidence LOWERED to medium until a human re-reads the source. Re-verify before relying on any single clause.
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.