Unilateral Notices Need a Detailed Cover Letter and 3… — Hillsborough County, FL · BenchPath

Unilateral Notices Need a Detailed Cover Letter and 3 Documented Attempts — County Civil H

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Motion Calendar13th Jud. Cir., Judge Giardina Procedures & Preferences (County Civ. H)

Summary

Judge Giardina: 15-minutes-or-less schedules through JAWS, over 30 through the JA — and a unilaterally-set notice of hearing must attach a cover letter detailing at least three attempts to coordinate; hearings in person since February 14, 2022.

Applies to

Florida > Thirteenth Judicial Circuit > Hillsborough County > County Civil Division H (Judge James S. Giardina)

Source of truth

"A notice of hearing set unilaterally due to a lack of cooperation must be accompanied by a cover letter describing, in detail, the efforts made to reach agreement on the hearing date." / "At least three (3) attempts must be made to coordinate a hearing date." / "All hearings will be held in person, unless indicated otherwise by the Court."

Official source: 13th Cir. — Judge Giardina (County Civil H) Procedures & Preferences
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 9, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-08 (live text containment) | prior: benchpath-cw-2026-08-04

Reviewer note: Cross-model verified 2026-07-05. 30-day recheck scheduled. | 2026-08-03: the source (rendered DOM (headless Chromium)) no longer contains this rule's quoted text; dropped to medium pending re-composition against the current version. [RECOMPOSED VERBATIM 2026-08-04 (campaign wave, fully-anchored): 2 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 23a5ad9de985e9f9e34359fa6769214b950b6145aefbadd63dd0f6a8c09c1d79; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.fljud13.org/Directory/Judges/Judge-Giardina), harvested 2026-08-04; each bullet is quoted whole from the page, whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

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