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8 verbatim mandatory provisions from S-2008-164.
Thirteenth 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. • If the parties wish to select a private mediator to handle their mediation conference they must contact the Program within 10 days from the date of the Order of Referral and provide the Program with the name of the mediator and the date and time of the mediation conference. 3. • Deferment Within 15 days of the Order of Referral, any party may file a motion to defer the mediation conference. • The moving party will use best efforts to set the motion to defer for hearing prior to the scheduled date for the mediation conference. • If a hearing on the motion to defer cannot be set prior to the mediation conference date the moving party will, more -- 1 of 3 -- than 48 hours before the originally scheduled mediation conference, take necessary steps to reschedule the mediation conference. • Rescheduling or Cancellation Prior to Mediation The parties or their counsel must notify the Program of any rescheduling no later than 48 hours, excluding weekends and legal holidays, before the scheduled mediation conference. • The petitioner, or if petitioner is represented by counsel, petitioner's counsel must notify the Program in writing if the mediation conference must be cancelled because a settlement has been reached or the case has been dismissed more than 48 hours prior to the scheduled mediation conference. 5. • Upon completion of mediation, the mediator will return a completed Outcome of Service form to the Program office within 48 hours of the mediation conference. 7. • If a party fails to appear at a scheduled mediation conference, or fails to make payment by the time of the mediation conference, or fails to provide at least 24 hours prior written notice to the Program of the cancellation of a mediation conference, the party will be billed for the cancelled mediation conference. 10.
If the parties wish to select a private mediator to handle their mediation conference they must contact the Program within 10 days from the date of the Order of Referral and provide the Program with the name of the mediator and the date and time of the mediation conference. 3.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 8d92aba63d9ba85d69f8643d0c6722c11ae2dd8c9f5d17319737ab6fd04e6d0e (173774 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.