Court runs on paper that knows where it is.

Family hearings are bench proceedings: the judge rules on objections and weighs the evidence — there is no jury layer in this platform because there is none in these courtrooms. What wins hearings is unglamorous: exhibits collected early, marked clearly, listed honestly, and handed to the court the way YOUR division expects. This page teaches the lifecycle; the organizer tracks it; the composer assembles the packet behind your recorded election. Legal information, not legal advice.

Wired to the law it implements

Retrieved live from the source-locked corpus — never generated.

Fla. Stat. § 90.104 Fla. Stat. § 90.402 Fla. Stat. § 90.403 Fla. Stat. § 90.503 Fla. Stat. § 90.504 Fla. Stat. § 90.5036 Fla. Stat. § 90.802 Fla. Stat. § 90.803 Fla. Stat. § 90.901 Fla. Stat. § 90.902 Fla. Stat. § 90.952 Fla. Stat. § 90.953 Fla. Stat. § 90.954 Fla. Stat. § 92.525 Fla. Stat. § 934.03

The lifecycle the organizer now tracks

1
Collected
It exists in your organizer — dated, issue-tagged, original preserved where it lives.
2
Marked
It carries YOUR exhibit designation (P-1, R-2…). Marking conventions are local — the division's order or procedure controls the format.
3
Listed
It appears on your exhibit list — the document the composer assembles, commonly exchanged before the hearing per the case's orders.
4
Offered
You moved it into evidence at the hearing — the moment the five gates stop being theory.
5
Admitted / Not admitted / Withdrawn
The judge ruled, or you pulled it. You LOG what happened; nothing predicts it, and the list's ruling columns stay blank until court fills them.

Track it in the Evidence Organizer — each item carries its status and your exhibit number, and the "Copy for the exhibit-packet composer" button emits your items one per line, ready to paste into the composer.

Remote hearings — where most family evidence now shows up

Florida's communication-technology rule governs appearing and testifying remotely — and exhibits at a remote hearing need a plan of their own: how the court receives them, how a witness is shown them, and what the division's remote procedures require. The rule is loaded in the corpus; its definitions are quoted below, verbatim.

“means electronic devices, systems, applications, or platforms that permit all participants to hear, see, and speak to all other participants in real time.”

Fla. R. Gen. Prac. & Jud. Admin. 2.530 — read the full section →

Practical remote-exhibit habits: get the packet to the court and the other side BEFORE the hearing by the division's stated method; name files by exhibit number; have the original device in reach when authentication questions come; and ask the judicial assistant what the division expects — before the morning of.

Local practice governs — and this platform does not guess it

Exhibit exchange deadlines, marking formats, courtesy copies, and remote-hearing mechanics are set by circuits, divisions, and individual judges. Court and county procedural data on this platform passes through from the BenchPath/CourtRulesOS engine with its citations, confidence, and last-verified dates untouched — check your county's page for what it serves today. And always: a specific case order or current division procedure controls over anything a general page — this one included — assumes.

Assemble the packet

The Drafting Studio's Hearing Exhibit Packet assembles your exhibit list (ruling columns blank by design), a binder cover, and a labels sheet from the items YOU choose and number — election-gated and DRAFT-banded like every operative document, with the court-format checklist on the export.

Open the Drafting Studio → "Hearing Exhibit Packet"Hearing Prep Mode →Court Day →

Whether any exhibit is admitted is the judge's ruling under the Evidence Code — the Five Gates teach the questions, and a lawyer applies them to your facts. Statutory excerpts are verbatim from the hash-verified corpus. Legal information, not legal advice.