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2 verbatim requirements on judge preferences.
Eighth Judicial Circuit — DIVISION-WIDE / UNASSIGNED TO A CURRENT INDIVIDUAL 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. • Division Procedures and Proposed Orders - All Counties – Probate - All Counties – Guardianship - Alachua – Circuit Civil Division J - Alachua – Circuit Civil Division K - Alachua – County Civil Division IV - Alachua – County Civil Division V - Alachua – Family Division DR1 - Alachua – Family Division DR2 - Alachua – Family Division DR3 - Alachua – Family Division DR4 - Alachua – Family Division Dependency and UFC - Alachua – Family Division Domestic Violence - Alachua – Foreclosures - Baker, Bradford and Union – Foreclosures - Bradford – County Civil & Criminal - Gilchrist – Foreclosures - Levy – Foreclosures • Emergency Motions for Ex Parte Relief Granting an emergency motion without proper notice to the opposing party, absent a genuine emergency, deprives the opposing party of procedural due process. All emergency motions for ex parte relief not expressly governed by Fla. Fam. L. R. P. 12.610 must strictly comply with Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.610. No such motion may be granted unless: - It appears from the specific facts shown by affidavit or verified pleading * that immediate and irreparable injury, loss, or damage will result to the movant before the adverse party can be heard in opposition; and - the movant’s attorney certifies in writing any efforts that have been made to give notice and the reasons why notice should not be required. Fla. R. Civ. P. 1.610(a). * “Under penalties of perjury, I declare that I have read the foregoing [document] and that the facts stated in it are true.” § 92.525, Fla. Stat. The emergency motion must show (1) how and why the giving of notice would accelerate or precipitate the injury or (2) that the time required to notice a hearing would actually permit the threatened irreparable injury to occur. See e.g. Hunter v. Hunter, 36 So.3d 148 (Fla. 2d DCA 2010); Smith v. Knight, 679 So.2d 359 (Fla. 4th DCA 1996). If the parties have minor children in common, the moving party must also file a UCCJEA affidavit (Form 12.902(d)).
Division Procedures and Proposed Orders - All Counties – Probate - All Counties – Guardianship - Alachua – Circuit Civil Division J - Alachua – Circuit Civil Division K - Alachua – County Civil Division IV - Alachua – County Civil Division V - Alachua – Family Division DR1 - Alachua – Family Division DR2 - Alachua – Family Division DR3 - Alachua – Family Division DR4 - Alachua – Family Division Dependency and UFC - Alachua – Family Division Domestic Violence - Alachua – Foreclosures - Baker, Bradford and Union – Foreclosures - Bradford – County Civil & Criminal - Gilchrist – Foreclosures - Levy – Foreclosures
Reviewer note: Source sha256: 4d8523f17c4fc0c388f1a1a9c1e27367496c2fb683f99a1f91dde5089e4e0b70, 5775b19bb69b7b0a5df60cb9d3820329ad06d30f9da8ce7df65f35b2066c175f. Corpus categories: PROPOSED_ORDERS, OTHER_PUBLISHED_PROCEDURE. 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.
Judge Bell caps motions and responses at 5 pages for UMC hearings and 12 pages for special-set hearings.
Judge Alijewicz requires every motion for attorney's fees and/or costs to attach a document detailing time records — no records, no fee award.
Judge Corlew bars informal contact: every communication with the Court must be in writing, filed with the Clerk, with copies furnished to all parties — and no calls to the JA to schedule or cancel UMC.