UNIFORM MOTION CALENDAR is held on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 8:45. Division suspensions are always on the voicemail at 561-624-6670.
Temporary Relief Hearing: Before the JA can give a date and time to the attorneys,
Contempt Hearing:PRE-Judgment (on a temporary order) JA can give contempt hearing dates on the next available date. Motions that require 30 minute Hearing:PRE-Judgement Special Set Hearings by JA. These are motions that cannot be heard on the Uniform Motion Calendar because they require testimony and more time then 10 minutes. Moving attorney calls the JA; the JA provides 3 available dates and tells the attorney to coordinate with opposing counsel. Attorney must call JA back secure the time that the Administrative Order 5.005 ADOPTION HEARINGS: TPR or Final Hearings are set by the JA. Make sure the attorney has received their Status Letter from the Law Clerk and make sure everything in the Law Clerk status Letter has been complied with. If everything has been complied with the Judicial Assistant can specially set them. If attorney says they have not received a status letter from the Law clerk, the Judicial Assistant must get the case number, pull the file and let the Law Clerk do a Status Letter. We will not set a TPR or Final Hearing until the Status Letter has been done. TRIALS: Moving party must file a Notice for Trial with their estimated time and self addressed stamped envelopes MUST BE PROVIDED or Trial will NOT be set until they are received. The Court will then schedule the trial date.
MODIFICATIONS: These are ALL POST-Judgment matters, and must be referred to the Magistrate. If there is an objection to the Magistrate hearing, the attorney must file a written Objection to Magistrate. After the Magistrate does an Order Sustaining the Objection the matter will be referred back to the Judge.
Magistrates: If the parties’ last name begins with A-E – Basseline; F-Z – Baker CONTEMPT & ENFORCEMENT: POST-Judgment are referred to the Magistrate to be handled as described above. EMERGENCY HEARINGS: These are reviewed by the Judge to determine whether an emergency hearing should be scheduled.
MOTIONS TO COMPEL DISCOVERY: No hearing necessary. Attorney must submit the motion and order for signature by the Judge, and provide self addressed stamped envelopes.
Preparation of Judgments and Orders: some portion of text of the Order specific to the case must be included on signature page. PLEASE NOTE to include the page, case number and style of case in the upper left-hand corner for orders more than one page. The Order will be sent back to the moving attorney if the signature page of the order only inlcudes the Judge's signature line and is not in compliance with Administrative Order 5.013  |
