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21 verbatim requirements from administrative order 2005-16-11 - Amended Order Governing Unified Family Court and the Assignment and Scheduling of Domestic Relations and Juvenile Cases, Osceola County.
9th Judicial Circuit. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from https://ninthcircuit.org/sites/default/files/AO2005-16-11.pdf, harvested 2026-07-25; whitespace normalised only. • In an effort to achieve the ultimate goal of creating a fully integrated comprehensive approach to handling all cases involving families and children as fully as possible given current limitations and abilities, each unified family court subdivision judge shall maintain a detailed schedule which shall be provided to and followed by the Clerk. • A “related case” shall be defined as any pending Unified Family Court domestic relations, domestic violence, or juvenile case in which the parties or children are the same as the parties or children appearing in the newly filed domestic relations, domestic violence, or juvenile case. -- 1 of 5 -- • A “pending domestic relations case” shall be defined as any open domestic relations case in which no final judgment has been entered or, where a domestic relations case has been finalized but later re-opened by motion or supplemental petition, any re-opened domestic relations case where the court has not entered a final order or supplemental final judgment. c. • A “pending domestic violence case” shall be defined as any open domestic violence case in which no final judgment has been entered or, where a domestic violence case has been finalized but later re-opened by motion or supplemental petition, any re-opened domestic violence case where the court has not entered a final order or supplemental final judgment. d. • A “pending juvenile dependency case” shall be defined as any juvenile dependency case where neither the Dependency Court’s supervision nor jurisdiction has been terminated. e. • A “pending juvenile delinquency case” shall be defined as any open juvenile delinquency case in which no final disposition has been entered. • The Clerk of Court shall determine if any “related” cases exist before assigning or reassigning domestic relations, domestic violence, or juvenile cases to any subdivision of the Unified Family Court. • Family Services, litigants appearing pro-se, and attorneys are required to file a “Notice of • All pleadings filed with the court shall include the dates of birth of all children required to be named in the caption of those pleadings and shall be accompanied by a completed coversheet provided by the Clerk of Court. • With the exception of cases identified in paragraph 1 above, the Clerk of Court shall automatically assign/reassign cases within the Unified Family Court as follows: -- 2 of 5 -- • The Clerk of Court shall assign new domestic relations cases sequentially between subdivisions 30-C, 40-C, and 43-C except that where a new domestic relations case is “related” to a pending juvenile dependency case, the new domestic relations case shall be assigned to Subdivision 41-C. • The Clerk of Court shall assign all juvenile dependency cases to Subdivision 41-C. • Additionally, if a new juvenile dependency case is filed that has a “related” pending domestic relations case, the new juvenile dependency case shall be assigned to Subdivision 41-C and the “related” domestic relations case shall be reassigned to Subdivision 41-C. c. • The Clerk of Court shall assign all juvenile delinquency cases sequentially between subdivisions 10A, 11A, and 12A at the time they are given a case number. d. • All new domestic violence injunction cases and all new repeat/sexual/dating violence/stalking injunction cases shall be assigned on a three-week rotating basis to the subdivision (either Subdivision 30-C, 40-C or 43-C) scheduled to accept such assignments during the week that the new domestic violence or repeat/sexual/dating violence/stalking injunction case is filed. • Each domestic violence or repeat/sexual/dating violence/stalking injunction case shall then remain with the judge who signed the temporary injunction or notice of hearing until entry of a final judgment on the domestic violence or repeat/sexual/dating violence/stalking injunction. • After entry of a final judgment on the domestic violence or repeat/sexual/dating violence/stalking injunction, only domestic violence or repeat/sexual/dating violence/stalking injunction cases with a “related” domestic relations case or juvenile dependency case shall be assigned/reassigned to the subdivision assigned the “related” -- 3 of 5 -- • All repeat/sexual/dating violence/stalking injunction cases that have been extended to future dates shall be heard by the original subdivision (either Subdivision 30-C, 40-C or 43-C) during the week that the extended repeat/sexual/dating violence/stalking is ready to be heard. • Notwithstanding the foregoing, no case shall be reassigned from a subdivision of the Unified Family Court in the following circumstances: a. • The Clerk of Court shall place an Identifier in their database by those cases that have been identified as a “related” case. • Case Assignment Method, Osceola County, the Clerk of Court shall continue to assign all cases in all divisions by division number only so as to prevent confusion and inefficiencies when a judge is assigned to another division.
In an effort to achieve the ultimate goal of creating a fully integrated comprehensive approach to handling all cases involving families and children as fully as possible given current limitations and abilities, each unified family court subdivision judge shall maintain a detailed schedule which shall be provided to and followed by the Clerk.
Reviewer note: Order PDF sha256: 2cdde7b557d017efb15cd9e3e4dd21fd15e8afd14a87dff978fe1710ef41612c. Extracted from the order's own text layer.
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.