Which Court Will Handle Your Divorce?: Part IV of IV (Divorce in Stuart, Jensen Beach, Hobe Sound and Martin County).
The divorce lawyers of Nugent & Zborowski practice divorce and family law in Stuart and Martin County. The firm’s attorneys also handle paternity, juvenile dependancy, modification of alimony and child support, visitation(timesharing), and child custody, and fathers’ and grandparents’ rights cases in West Palm Beach and Palm Beach County.
If you live in Stuart, Jensen Beach, Hobe Sound, or anywhere else in Martin County, one of your questions about your divorce or family law matter may concern the actual location of where you need to go to have a Judge decide an aspect of your case. As an initial matter, divorce and family law related cases are handled in the circuit court level of Florida’s state court system. Florida separates circuit courts into multiple “judicial circuits.” Divorce and family law cases in Martin County are handled by the 19th Judicial Circuit, which also services St. Lucie County, Okeechobee County and Indian River County.
Divorce and family law cases in Stuart, Jenson Beach, Hobe Sound and other areas of Martin County, including paternity cases and modification of child custody, child support and alimony cases, are all held at the Martin County Courthouse, which is located in downtown Stuart (click here for a link to the courthouse location and driving directions).
All of the divorce and family law cases in Stuart, Hobe Sound, Jensen Beach (and the rest of Martin County) are all handled by Judge Robert Makemson. Furthermore, all divorce and family law cases are handled in accordance with administrative order #2007-13.
For more information about your Stuart divorce case, or a a divorce or family law case anywhere else in Martin County, including child support and alimony cases in Hobe Sound and Jensen Beach, call 561.844.1200 and speak to an attorney with the Law Offices of Nugent & Zborowski. You can also click here to email an attorney with the firm to request more information, or visit the firm’s website, www.nugentlawfirm.com.