3 verbatim mandatory provisions from AO 2024-36 Designating Judge Harris - Hauge Convention Cases.
First Judicial Circuit. Check the order's own effective and rescission dates before relying on it. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from the order's own text layer, harvested 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. Only sentences containing mandatory language (shall, must, may not, no later than, within N) are reproduced — the full document is in custody and is the controlling text. • Any judge in the First Judicial Circuit who receives a case or motion involving the Hague Convention, the International Child Abduction Remedies Act, or any case relating to sections 61.524 - 61.525, Florida Statutes, must immediately notify Judge Harris of the matter. 3. • In the event that Judge Harris is not available to address a Hague Convention matter within the time constraints presented, the Chief Judge must be promptly notified so that a substitute judge can be designated to address the matter. -- 1 of 2 -- 4. • To the extent that any provision of this Order may be construed as being in conflict with any law, statute, or rule, the law, statute, or rule shall prevail. 6.
Any judge in the First Judicial Circuit who receives a case or motion involving the Hague Convention, the International Child Abduction Remedies Act, or any case relating to sections 61.524 - 61.525, Florida Statutes, must immediately notify Judge Harris of the matter. 3.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: a68fb2c3a2c7aafe3557074c7e60d88b5d677f63480ee44a29f25502641a5697 (72866 bytes). BenchPath harvested this circuit itself because no research corpus existed for it. Extraction is conservative: mandatory-language sentences only, so this rule is a faithful subset of the order, never a summary of it.
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.