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Shari Africk-Olefson
Circuit Judge · Seventeenth Judicial Circuit Court · Broward County, Florida
High confidence· verified August 3, 2026
- verified requirements
- 1,701
- verified requirements
- rule deadlines
- 6
- rule deadlines
- sources cited
- 112
- sources cited
- reviewed insights
- 0
- reviewed insights
- verified rulings
- 0
- verified rulings
Verification profile
- High · 1,701
- Medium · 0
- Low · 0
- Unverified · 0
Report generated September 4, 2026 · benchpath.ai/reports/judge/shari-africk-olefson
01 Division & assignment
Circuit Civil
Official divisional instructions →Assignment as stated in the order
Circuit Civil — Division 25
Chambers & practice notes
- Judicial assistant
- Joshua Carrasco (954) 831-3736
Circuit Court Judge
Division(s) 25 (controlling: AO 2026-21-GEN eff. 2026-07-01)
Zoom ID 975-531-891
Chambers WW15129, Courtroom WW15150
Central Judicial Complex, 201 SE 6th Street, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
Verified 2026-08-03: the 17th's own division pages publish rosters and portraits but no biography prose. A court fact, not a harvest gap.
Captured verbatim from the court's own published pages and orders during circuit verification. Chambers practices change without notice — confirm anything time-critical with the judicial assistant. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
02 Live Case-Type Intelligence Scan
Live case-type intelligence scan
● LiveAnswer three quick questions. The platform pulls Shari Africk-Olefson's full public case-law record from the source, newest first — your matter never narrows the pull; it directs the relevance ranking and the dual-AI analysis. Every hit comes back Bluebook-cited with the opinion's own words quoted verbatim. The scan takes the time precision takes.
- 1. Case area & type
- 2. Refine
- 3. Review & scan
Case-law search
CourtListener · free connector · liveCoverage note: CourtListener is strongest for federal and state appellate courts; Florida circuit-court opinions are sparsely represented.
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03 Division intelligence
Appellate exposure
Appeals from this courtroom go to the Fourth District Court of Appeal (West Palm Beach).
● LiveThat court's published bench (11): Alan O. Forst, Burton C. Conner, Caroline Shepherd, Cory J. Ciklin, Johnathan D. Lott, Jonathan D. Gerber, Mark W. Klingensmith, Melanie G. May, Robert M. Gross, Shannon K. Shaw, Spencer D. Levine
Jurisdiction per § 35.043, Fla. Stat. (six-district alignment eff. Jan. 1, 2023).
04 Appellate record (35)
05 Procedural requirements (1,701)
06 Deadline table
07 Ruling intelligence
No verified ruling summary yet — summaries publish only after human review of a real opinion/docket corpus. The live scan at the top of this report covers what public sources hold today.
08 Source appendix (112)
- 17th Circuit — Court site corpus (AO archive, local rules, judiciary)Healthychecked September 4, 2026
- 17th Circuit — Division 25 procedures (Judge Shari Africk-Olefson)Healthychecked September 3, 2026
- 17th Cir. — Administrative Orders hub (hosts the Broward Local Rules)Healthychecked September 3, 2026
- 17th Circuit — Division 70 procedures (Judge Kim Theresa Mollica)Healthychecked September 4, 2026
- 17th Circuit — Per-judge procedure documents (published Google Docs + court PDFs)checked September 4, 2026
09 Recent change events
- September 4, 2026Monitor detected a source-content or hash-basis change. Review the archived bytes before republishing dependent material.
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- September 4, 2026Monitor detected a source-content or hash-basis change. Review the archived bytes before republishing dependent material.
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This report compiles procedural information and public-record research from the official sources cited above, with per-item verification status. It is not legal advice, contains no outcome predictions, is not a substitute for the advice of an attorney, and creates no attorney–client relationship. Items below high confidence must be verified against the official source before relying on them. Print with your browser for a clean PDF.