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The circuit courts primarily handle felony criminal cases, civil cases where the amount in controversy is greater than $30,000, as well as appeals from county courts. Circuit courts also have jurisdiction over domestic relations, juvenile dependency, juvenile delinquency, and probate matters. [4] Florida has twenty judicial circuits.
The Florida circuit courts are state courts and trial courts [1] of original jurisdiction for most controversies. In Florida, the circuit courts are one of four types of courts created by the Florida Constitution (the other three being the Florida Supreme Court, Florida district courts of appeal, and Florida county courts).
Angela Corey (born October 31, 1954) is a former Florida State's Attorney for the Fourth Judicial Circuit Court, which includes Duval, Nassau and Clay counties—including Jacksonville and the core of its metropolitan area. She was elected in 2008 as the first woman to hold the position, and was defeated on August 30, 2016, by Melissa Nelson ...
Carlos G. Muňiz, Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court, has ordered a committee to study consolidations among the state’s 20 judicial circuits.
The new facility is located Downtown Jacksonville, Florida; it was built starting in 2009 and opened in 2012. Duval County was created on August 12, 1822 and was formerly part of St. Johns County . Although the county's area was huge, it took more than twenty years before the first courthouse was constructed during the 1840s.
The Florida Supreme Court adopted the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure in March 1954. [2] The proper abbreviation for the rules is Fla.R.Civ.P. [3] The rules may be amended, or new rules added, from time to time and upon the approval of the Florida Supreme Court.
Jacksonville is in the 4th Judicial Circuit of Florida, which includes Duval, Clay and Nassau counties. Circuit Courts have jurisdiction over felonies, tax issues, real property, juvenile issues, probate, family law (dissolution of marriage, paternity and adoption) and determination of competence. There are 29 elected circuit judges for Duval ...
The addition of the Florida Sixth District Court of Appeal in 2023 changed the caseload of the Fifth DCA. Previously, the Fifth DCA handled cases from the following counties and circuit courts: Lake, Marion, Sumter, Citrus & Hernando (Fifth Circuit); Volusia, Flagler, Putnam & St. Johns (Seventh Circuit); Orange & Osceola (Ninth Circuit); and ...