Scheduling Guidelines

            Scheduling requests may be made by email to Mary T. Flansburg, the judge's judicial assistant.   Email requesting hearing time should include your name, the name of your client, the case number, your telephone number and your scheduling request.    Before making your request, please consult the Court's Calendar  page and read the following guidelines for scheduling hearings.  

Docket Sounding Appearance

            Appearance by private counsel at docket sounding may be made by completing the attached form and emailing or faxing it to the Court prior to the proceeding.  Clicking on Docket Sounding Appearance Form will produce the form in a Word format.  The form may be completed, saved and then attached to an email to Mary T. Flansburg, the Court's judicial assistant, or faxed to the Court at (321) 952-4681.  The original of the completed form should be printed, signed and filed with the Clerk.

Scheduling Criminal Hearings

            Hearings in criminal cases may be scheduled, as appropriate, during periods designated "Criminal Proceedings", "Arraignments", "Non-Jury Trials", "Jury Trials" and "Violation of Probation Hearings".  In order to ensure that the Court has received a Notice of Appearance and Waiver of Arraignment from counsel waiving their client's appearance at Arraignment and Second Appearance, counsel may fax a copy to chambers at (321) 952-4681. 

Scheduling Guidelines

        After having coordinated the scheduling with the opposing party, any litigant or attorney representing an interested party may request that a hearing be set for a particular date and time by directing an email to Mary T. Flansburg, the Court's judicial assistant.  After submitting the request, in order to reserve hearing time the scheduling party must confirm the requested hearing by contacting the judicial assistant, by telephone or in person at the Melbourne Courthouse.

Scheduling Civil Hearings

            Hearings in civil cases may be scheduled during periods designated "Civil", "Jury/Civil" and "Small Claims/Landlord Tenant".   Uncontested dissolution of marriage proceedings and other civil hearings may also be scheduled to commence at 8:45 am. Counsel may appear by telephone, with leave of Court, at Pre-Trial Conferences in small claims cases and other hearings.