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3 verbatim mandatory provisions from WCAD 2011-01 Collection of Mediation Fees Pursuant to Section 44.108, Florida Statutes.
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. • COLLECTION OF MEDIATION FEES PURSUANT TO SECTION 44.108, FLORIDA STATUTES WHEREAS, Section 44.108, Florida Statutes has been amended to provide for the funding of mediation and arbitration and instructs the clerk of court as to the collection fees for deposit in the state courts’ Mediation and Arbitration Trust Fund; it is ORDERED that a filing fee of $1.00 is levied on all proceedings in the Circuit or County Courts to fund mediation and arbitration services; and, the party filing a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage shall pay Two Hundred Forty (each party pay half $120.00 each) dollars if the parties’ combined gross income is greater than $50,000.00 but less than $100,000.00 per year; and One Hundred Twenty (each party pay half $60.00 each) dollars if the parties’ combined gross income is less than $50,000.00 per year. • However, if simultaneously with the filing of the Petition for Dissolution of Marriage, the parties file a Stipulation Agreement signed by both parties, the $240.00 or $120.00 fee shall be waived. • The Petition will not be accepted for filing until such time as the mediation fees are paid.
COLLECTION OF MEDIATION FEES PURSUANT TO SECTION 44.108, FLORIDA STATUTES WHEREAS, Section 44.108, Florida Statutes has been amended to provide for the funding of mediation and arbitration and instructs the clerk of court as to the collection fees for deposit in the state courts’ Mediation and Arbitration Trust Fund; it is ORDERED that a filing fee of $1.00 is levied on all proceedings in the Circuit or County Courts to fund mediation and arbitration services; and, the party filing a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage shall pay Two Hundred Forty (each party pay half $120.00 each) dollars if the parties’ combined gross income is greater than $50,000.00 but less than $100,000.00 per year; and One Hundred Twenty (each party pay half $60.00 each) dollars if the parties’ combined gross income is less than $50,000.00 per year.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: cade5ab7b40fe2a639184d36dff1349544a33e23024176f7e6cee74ffb961ebf (44874 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 Shull requires ALL motions set for special-set hearing to go to mediation before the hearing is held.
Judge Burkhart will not schedule a temporary-relief hearing until mediation has been held ON the temporary relief sought — mediation first, hearing second.
Judge Sharrit refers ALL cases to mediation (exceptions only by leave) and openly encourages Special Magistrates under Rule 1.490(b) to beat the hearing-time bottleneck.