Click Mary T. Flansburg to contact the judge's judicial assistant by email with your scheduling request.   Your email 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. 

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 brief civil hearings may also be scheduled to commence at 8:45 am, however, each morning's civil hearings may not exceed a total of 30 minutes. Counsel may appear by telephone, with leave of Court, at Pre-Trial Conferences in small claims cases and other hearings. 

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".  The State Attorney's Office is expected to appear at Misdemeanor Arraignments and Second Appearances, however, private counsel may waive their client's appearance by filing a Notice of Appearance and Waiver of Arraignment.  In order to ensure that the Court has received your Notice of Appearance, counsel may fax a copy to chambers at the number indicated above. 

        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. Gabbard, 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.