The Movant Appears Even If the Motion Settled — County Civil O — Hillsborough County, FL · BenchPath

The Movant Appears Even If the Motion Settled — County Civil O

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Case Management13th Jud. Cir., Judge Allen Procedures & Preferences (County Civ. O)

Summary

Judge Allen: every hearing is in person (no phone/Zoom for small-claims initial pretrials), 60-minutes-or-less books through JAWS — and even after the parties agree, the movant must appear at the scheduled time unless a timely cancellation or signed stipulation reached the division.

Applies to

Florida > Thirteenth Judicial Circuit > Hillsborough County > County Civil Division O (Judge Lisa A. Allen)

Source of truth

"Even if the parties reach an agreement in regard to the pending motion, the movant must appear at the scheduled hearing time to inform the Court of the outcome unless a timely cancellation notice or a signed stipulation of the parties is emailed" / "All hearings shall be held in person. No party may appear by phone or zoom for a small claims initial pre-trial conference."

Official source: 13th Cir. — Judge Allen (County Civil O) 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, partially-anchored): 1 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 1d7bc18f2112d15612ef5fd3f9abf1194bc90cc7a6108c2acce516d6b4d1f280; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.fljud13.org/Directory/Judges/Judge-Allen), harvested 2026-08-04; each bullet is quoted whole from the page, whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

Small Claims County Civil

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