The Sixth Judicial Circuit Unified Family Court in
Pinellas
County
is made up of 4 Judges, one General Magistrate, a behavioral evaluation program,
a juvenile arbitration program, a truancy magistrate
program, a Girls’
Mission Possible
Court
, a
Dependency
Drug Court
and a Youth Treatment Court. All
juvenile delinquency cases are heard in the Unified Family Court, as well as
all dependency cases, all adoptions of minors other than stepparent or relative
adoptions, all termination of parental rights, all section 751 temporary
custody cases, all judicial waiver of parental notice of termination of
pregnancy cases, all removal of disabilities of nonage and other family cases
(dissolution, paternity, domestic violence etc…) that have an underlying
pending case being heard in the Unified Family Court. The Unified Family Court
looks to coordinate multiple cases involving the same family and have them all
heard before the same judge. The Unified Family Court is located at the
Criminal
Justice
Center
14250 49th street north
in
Clearwater.
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