Loading…
10 verbatim mandatory provisions from S-2018-040.
Thirteenth Judicial Circuit. Check the order's own effective and rescission dates before relying on it. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
• Unless otherwise ordered by the presiding judge , within 20 days of the date of the order referring parties to non binding arbitration, a hearing must be scheduled and must be held within 90 days of the order. • Case Summary Unless the chief arbitrator directs otherwise, the parties must each submit a case summary to each arbitrator no later than 10 days before the scheduled hearing. 4. • Payment must be made directly to the arbitrator by the conclusion of the arbitration hearing. 6. • Arbitration Decision Within 10 days of the final adjournment of the arbitration hearing, the arbitrators must notify the parties , or their counsel , of the arbitrator s' decision by service in accordance with Florida Rule of Judicial Administration 2.516. • At the time the parties are served with the decision, the arbitrators must file the decision with the Clerk of the Circuit Court (clerk) . • Arbitrators are required to file their decision under seal so that the decision is not made known to the presiding judge. • Decision Filed Electronically If the chief arbitrator electronically files the arbitrators ' decision with the clerk through thee-Portal , the chief arbitrator must, at the time of filing, file a separate "Notice of Sealed Nonbinding Arbitration Decision. " Upon the filing of a Notice of Sealed Nonbinding Arbitration Decision , the clerk must maintain the arbitration decision as sealed unless no request for trial de novo is filed within 20 days of service on the parties of the decision. • Decision Filed by Hard Copy If the chief arbitrator does not electronically file the arbitrators ' decision , then the chief arbitrator must file a hard copy of the decision with the clerk by submitting it in a separate sealed manila envelope labeled "Nonbinding Arbitration Decision " followed by the style of the case and case number. • The face of the envelope must indicate that the contents are exempt from public access in accordance with Florida Rule of Civil Procedure l .820(g)(3 ). • The clerk will not make the arbitrator ' s decision known to the presiding judge unless no request for trial de novo is filed within 20 days of service on the parties of the decision.
Unless otherwise ordered by the presiding judge , within 20 days of the date of the order referring parties to non binding arbitration, a hearing must be scheduled and must be held within 90 days of the order.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: f25f0e9129204b8a61a7c8afd26acec1db189cf37d76335b083225ef26d6be71 (1281831 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. [' AUDIT 2026-08-26: double-apostrophes adjudicated SOURCE-FAITHFUL - the custody text transcribes the scanned order's own typewriter quote marks / OCR of quote glyphs (the Galveston p6/p7 precedent). KEEP; never blind-fix.] Text layer cleaned 2026-09-08 (Phase 3a): page markers removed; wording untouched. Text layer cleaned 2026-09-08 (Phase 3e): running page headers/footers removed; wording untouched. 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. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]
4 verbatim requirements on hearings.
2 verbatim requirements on hearing time in LAUREN N. PEFFER's division.