Eighth Cir. — Judge James M. Colaw: Filing

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026E-FilingEighth Judicial Circuit, Judge James M. Colaw’s Division Procedures – The Eighth Judicial Circuit of Florida (pp. E-Filing Portal Contact Information:, Proposed Orders:, Format:, Submission Method:) — captured and sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Summary

4 verbatim requirements on filing.

Applies to

Eighth Judicial Circuit — Judge James M. Colaw only. Practices change without notice; the court's own published text controls. Procedural information only; not legal advice.

Source of truth

All attorneys and self-represented litigants must provide an e-mail address to receive signed orders electronically, unless excused. Fla. R. Gen. Prac. & Jud. Admin. 2.516. It is the responsibility of attorneys and self-represented litigants to update their contact information using Form 2.603 any time there is a change in the e-mail account registered for electronic service.

Official source: 8th Circuit — Administrative Orders
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
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Last verified: September 9, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-08 (live text containment) | prior: benchpath-completeness-2026-07-24

Provenance record

Source sha256: abb4afca0b4fad6baf54ad2de5c307f29401d1e9ddd986c3b48fd6af528b4b7c. Corpus categories: FILING_OR_SERVICE, PROPOSED_ORDERS | 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 31 of 33 published requirements (94%) still present on 1 source page (/courts-judges/judge-james-m-colaw/judge-james-m-colaws-division-procedures/). The missing text may have been reworded, moved, or withdrawn — BenchPath does not guess which. Confidence held at high because the overwhelming majority survived verbatim. Re-verify before relying on any single clause. Verbatim from the published source, captured 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

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139th District Court (Hidalgo County) — Standing Order: e-filing required for all family-law and civil documents from October 21, 2013 (signed October 18, 2013)

A 2013 standing order requiring attorneys to e-file family-law and civil documents (no paper filings accepted) as the court began compliance with the Supreme Court's e-filing mandate; criminal filing unchanged.

High confidence· verified September 10, 2026Standing Order of the Hidalgo County 139th district court regarding e-filing (2013), posted on www.hidalgocounty.us/208/e-Filing; captured 2026-09-10.

E-FilingHidalgo County · Judge Sergio Valdez

County Court at Law No. 7 (Hidalgo County) — Standing Order: e-filing required for all family-law documents (District Clerk) and civil documents (County Clerk) from October 21, 2013

Eighth Cir. — Judge James M. Colaw: Filing

Summary

Applies to

Source of truth

Change history

Related rules

139th District Court (Hidalgo County) — Standing Order: e-filing required for all family-law and civil documents from October 21, 2013 (signed October 18, 2013)

County Court at Law No. 7 (Hidalgo County) — Standing Order: e-filing required for all family-law documents (District Clerk) and civil documents (County Clerk) from October 21, 2013

Eighth Cir. — Judge James M. Colaw: Filing

Summary

Applies to

Source of truth

Change history

Related rules

139th District Court (Hidalgo County) — Standing Order: e-filing required for all family-law and civil documents from October 21, 2013 (signed October 18, 2013)

County Court at Law No. 7 (Hidalgo County) — Standing Order: e-filing required for all family-law documents (District Clerk) and civil documents (County Clerk) from October 21, 2013

County Court at Law No. 8 (Hidalgo County) — Standing Order: e-filing required for family-law and civil documents from December 2, 2013; valid e-mail addresses on all submitted orders

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