Evidence Center · Academy
Learn it in the order your case will live it.
Six stages, from the first days to the appeal — each routing into the Center's own pages, each closing with a knowledge check about what the LOADED LAW SAYS. Nothing here asks about your facts, grades your case, or predicts anything: the quizzes test reading, the walkthroughs are reading material drawn in steps, and progress is a note in your own browser.
Start from what you need to do
The track — six stages
Progress in this browser: 0 of 6 stages recorded — a reading log, nothing more.
Stage 1 · The first days
Day zero — the case begins
Before anything is filed or argued, evidence is already appearing and disappearing. The work of day zero is lawful self-preservation — and in safety cases, safety first, before any of it.
The Preservation Map →The preservation guide →Safety Mode →
Knowledge check — about the law's own words, never your facts
Under § 934.03, recording a private conversation in Florida generally requires…
A preservation letter you prepare and send yourself…
Deleting your own posts mid-case is…
Stage 2 · The working weeks
Organizing — the record takes shape
Items get logged, originals get located, and the five gates get read BEFORE anyone needs them. The organizer holds what you select; the Navigator teaches what each item type will face.
The Evidence Organizer →Article X, whole →The Family Evidence Navigator →
Knowledge check — about the law's own words, never your facts
For data stored in a phone or computer, § 90.951(3) treats readable output shown to reflect the data accurately as…
The originals census asks, for every item that matters…
Under § 90.953, a duplicate is generally admissible…
Stage 3 · The middle of the case
Disclosure & discovery — the exchange
Family cases start with a mandatory exchange no other docket has, and the discovery tools reach further when the floor is not honored. Income proof is usually the whole fight.
The 12.285 crosswalk →The Procedure Matrix →Proving Income →
Knowledge check — about the law's own words, never your facts
Rule 12.285's role in a family case is…
To get documents from a NON-party (a bank, a school) by subpoena without deposing the custodian, the family rules provide…
The § 90.902(11) certification matters to income proof because…
Stage 4 · Hearing days
The hearing — evidence is offered
Exhibits move through their lifecycle, the five gates run separately on every item, and children are heard about — almost never from — under the rules' own protections.
Hearing Exhibits →The Five Gates →The Objections →Children & Evidence →
Knowledge check — about the law's own words, never your facts
Passing ONE of the five gates (say, authentication) means…
Under Rule 12.407, a child testifies or attends a family proceeding…
Objections like 'compound' and 'narrative' rest on…
Stage 5 · In the moment
The ruling — what the court did
Rulings are obtained, offers of proof preserve what was excluded, and the organizer logs what HAPPENED — the platform never advances or predicts anything.
Preserving the Record →The offer-object-preserve path →
Knowledge check — about the law's own words, never your facts
Once a court makes a DEFINITIVE ruling on the record admitting or excluding evidence, § 90.104 says…
The offer of proof under Rule 12.450 exists to…
In the Evidence Organizer, ruling status is…
Stage 6 · After the ruling
The appeal — the record goes up
Appellate courts read the record — Rule 9.200 says what it consists of, and § 59.041 sets the sobering standard for when evidentiary error actually reverses.
Preserving the Record →Rule 9.200 — the record →
Knowledge check — about the law's own words, never your facts
Under Rule 9.200, the record on appeal is built from…
Under § 59.041, an evidentiary error reverses only when…
This platform states appellate deadlines…
The layers in one screenshot
A static walk — reading material drawn in steps, never an analyzer.
1. The screenshot itself§ 90.951
A writing offered for its contents — Article X and authentication run first: whose device, what capture, does the output reflect the data accurately?
2. Layer one — the other parent's message§ 90.803
An out-of-court statement offered for its truth is hearsay unless a lane carries it; a party's own statement offered against them travels differently under § 90.803(18)'s class.
3. Layer two — the teacher's words QUOTED in that message§ 90.805
The quote inside the message is its own statement by its own declarant — it needs its own lane, independently.
4. The rule that stacks them§ 90.805
Hearsay within hearsay: every layer must clear its own lane — § 90.805's whole point, and why the walkthrough exists.
An exhibit's whole journey
The lifecycle the organizer logs, drawn end to end — bench-trial edition.
1. Collectedread →
Logged in the organizer with its date, issue, and provenance — the census questions answered early.
2. Marked & exchangedread →
Designations assigned, copies exchanged the way the hearing's own procedures require — local practice passes through from the courts' own sources.
3. Listedread →
On the exhibit list the packet composer assembles — with the ruling columns BLANK by design; nobody dates a judicial act that has not happened.
4. Offeredread →
The moment: the item is moved into evidence, objections may come, and the five gates run separately.
5. Ruled on§ 90.104
Admitted, excluded, limited, or reserved — § 90.104's definitive-ruling language decides what preservation still needs.
6. After the hearingRule 12.450
Filed exhibits pass into the clerk's custody under Rule 12.450(b) — the custody chain the record on appeal rides.
The correction is the lesson
During this platform's own build, its source materials twice misstated Article X: one summary confused which section lists the no-original grounds, and another paraphrased ground four as 'not closely related' when the statute says 'not related to a controlling issue.' Both were caught the same way — by reading the enacted text and pinning every quote to it. That is the Academy's one transferable habit: summaries drift, outlines drift, even careful ones. The ink decides.
Knowledge check — about the law's own words, never your facts
Which section lists the grounds on which the original is NOT required?
Where the Academy stops
Knowing what the rules say is not the same as knowing what to do with YOUR facts — that is judgment, and independent attorney review is its route. In any case with a safety dimension, Safety Mode comes before study.
Quiz answers key to the hash-verified corpus; statutory text renders in English as enacted on every linked card. Legal information, not legal advice.