Chief Judge Leah R. Case signed an administrative order on Oct. 9 appointing four general magistrates and child support enforcement hearing officers for the Seventh Judicial Circuit. The circuit covers St. Johns County together with Flagler, Putnam and Volusia, and the order directs that it be recorded in all four. It is numbered FM-2026-004-SC (A) and rescinds FM-2026-004-SC, which the same chief judge signed on May 6.

The four officers named in the October order are Alexander Alvarez, Sharon Feliciano, Stacey Kircher and Denise Mensh, all appointed to both roles at once. The May order it replaces named Alvarez, Kircher and Mensh among its own four and carried a different name in the fourth place. Neither document states a reason for the change, and neither carries an effective date other than the date on which it was signed.

The operative language moved between the two documents in a way that is visible only by reading them against each other. The May order recites that the four named officers “have been appointed” to serve, and the October order recites that they “are appointed (or reappointed)” instead.

What the orders say these officers do

Both orders state that the powers and duties of these officers are set forth in Rules 12.490(c) and 12.491(e) of the Florida Family Law Rules of Procedure. Both also cite Rule 8.257(c) of the Florida Rules of Juvenile Procedure, and neither order reproduces any of the three rules it names or summarizes what any of them require of a party appearing before one of these officers. Both state in identical wording that administrative oversight of these officers is delegated by the chief judge to the court administrator or a designee.

The case assignment order for this county, numbered G-2026-044-SJ and signed Dec. 31, 2025, sets out what counts as family law here. That order has been in effect since Jan. 20, 2026, and the list of case types it places under the family law heading runs to twenty entries. They include child support under UIFSA, custody and time-sharing, parenting plans, paternity, adoption, name change, separate maintenance, annulment and injunctions for protection. They also include juvenile delinquency, truancy, juvenile dependency, termination of parental rights, emancipation, and children and families in need of services.

Under that order the juvenile cases on that list are assigned to Division 46, and every other family law case goes to Divisions 57 and 58. The order says those others are to be assigned to the two divisions “equally and randomly,” which is the only allocation method it describes. A later related case is assigned to whichever division already holds the earlier one, and a reopened juvenile case is moved to Division 46.

What the circuit does not publish

The circuit’s website carries an index of its judges, and that index lists them individually and names no general magistrate and no child support enforcement hearing officer among them. A request for a general magistrates page on the same site returned a 404 in the same retrieval pass as the two orders above.

So the four names in this order are the only published list of these officers that the circuit provides to anybody looking for one. Nothing the circuit publishes records which of the four hears matters in St. Johns County rather than in Flagler, Putnam or Volusia.

The copy of the rescinded order that is still there

A rescinded order ordinarily leaves this collection altogether, and the figures it carried leave the public record with it. CR-2025-027-SC sets the standard monthly cost of supervision for misdemeanor probation in these four counties at $55.00 for anybody placed on probation after Jan. 5, 2026. It recites on its face that it rescinds CR-2018-027-SC, and a request for CR-2018-027-SC at its own address returns a 404, as does CR-2017-028-SC. Whatever either of those two orders charged is no longer retrievable from the circuit at any address it publishes.

The May order rescinded on Oct. 9 was still being served at its own address on Oct. 14, which is why the two versions can be read against each other at all. The circuit’s own order collection lists FM-2026-004-SC (A) as the most recently modified record it holds, ahead of a Volusia County Court assignment order from Aug. 12.

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