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Judge Ayers will not schedule a final hearing or trial unless mediation occurred within the past six months (or new counsel appeared since) — and the Order Setting Final Hearing must hit JAWS 15 days before the date.
Florida > Thirteenth Judicial Circuit > Hillsborough County > Family Division D (Judge Kelly A. Ayers)
"THE COURT WILL NOT SCHEDULE A FINAL HEARING OR TRIAL UNLESS MEDIATION HAS TAKEN PLACE WITHIN THE PAST 6 MONTHS OR NEW COUNSEL HAS BEEN OBTAINED SINCE THE LAST MEDIATION." / "an Order Setting Final Hearing/Trial must be uploaded to JAWS for execution 15 days prior to the hearing/trial." / "All contested matters involving timesharing and all matters scheduled for more than 30 minutes will be in-person"
Reviewer note: Cross-model verified 2026-07-05. Note: her page also contains a stray felony bond-motion paragraph (page-integrity error, not ingested). 30-day recheck. | 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): 2 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 ce97112770f995aa5be24ac177fbd5c4e386d54bd60b273a8543128be1e3a29d; the prior summary-class text is superseded.]
Judge Miller mandates pre-trial mediation after every Order Setting Trial — regardless of any earlier mediation — on pain of striking from the trial docket and sanctions up to dismissal without further notice or hearing.
2 summarised requirements on mediation.
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