7 verbatim requirements on discovery.
Tenth Judicial Circuit — Circuit-wide: Hardee, Highlands, Polk only. Practices change without notice; the court's own published text controls. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from the published source, captured 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. • 2. Procedure: A. The judges affected by an intracircuit scheduling conflict shall initially confer and determine priorities considering such factors as: the age of the case; the number of parties and attorneys involved; the estimated time needed for trial; and the availability of witnesses. • confer with the opposing party in an effort to obtain the discovery, to no avail; • 1. _____ Shared Parental Responsibility. It is in the best interests of the child(ren) that the parents confer and jointly make all major decisions affecting the welfare of the child(ren). Major decisions include, but are not limited to, decisions about the child(ren)’s education, healthcare, religion and other responsibilities unique to this family. • 2. _____ Shared parental responsibility with designation of specific responsibility. It is in the best interests of the child(ren) that the parents confer and jointly make all major decisions affecting the welfare of the child(ren) except as noted below. Major decisions include, but are not limited to, decisions about the child(ren)’s education, healthcare, religion and other responsibilities unique to this family. • Both parents shall have equal and independent authority to confer with the child(ren)’s health care providers, and other programs with regard to the child(ren)’s educational, emotional, and social progress. • Once identified and evaluated, case management staff shall notify the assigned judge(s) that a case assigned to them has one or more related cases. The assigned judges shall confer and decide whether to transfer any of the cases to a single judge or to continue coordination of the cases. Case management staff shall monitor the movement and activity in these cases so long as there are multiple related cases with record activity. • Case management staff shall notify both judges of any related cases involving a single family. The judges shall confer and decide the practicality of transferring any of the related cases to a single judge or continuing coordination of the cases.
2. Procedure: A. The judges affected by an intracircuit scheduling conflict shall initially confer and determine priorities considering such factors as: the age of the case; the number of parties and attorneys involved; the estimated time needed for trial; and the availability of witnesses.
Reviewer note: Source sha256: . Corpus categories: CONFERRAL. Published during the 2026-07-24 completeness pass.
Every party setting a hearing in Division AO must first confer in a good-faith effort to resolve the matter, and every hearing notice must include a certificate of that conferral. The division instructions state that conferral requires counsel to actually talk.
Under the 2025 case-management amendments, a movant must confer with the opposing party in a good-faith effort to resolve a nondispositive motion before filing it, and must include a certificate of conferral.
CV-E layers a second conferral on top of Rule 1.202: certify conferral before filing the motion (Exhibit A) and again before scheduling it for hearing (Exhibit B).