No Final Hearing Without Mediation in the Past 6 Months — Family D

Source of truth

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.

Official source

13th Cir. — Judge Ayers (Fam D) Procedures & Preferences

Source health

Healthy · checked October 23, 2026

Effective date

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Last verified

September 27, 2026benchpath-owner-fixes-2026-09-27

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the live page, sha256 ce97112770f995aa5be24ac177fbd5c4e386d54bd60b273a8543128be1e3a29d; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.fljud13.org/Directory/Judges/Judge-Ayers), harvested 2026-08-04; each bullet is quoted whole from the page, whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14] [Corrected 2026-09-27: the page still states the rule this entry is titled for -- "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." -- which the 2026-08-04 recomposition had dropped (the page prints it in capitals). Restored verbatim, with the two neighbouring sentences in their current wording, from https://www.fljud13.org/Directory/Judges/Judge-Ayers fetched 2026-09-27 (sha256 8de377106209849e...).]