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14 verbatim mandatory provisions from S-2024-057.
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. • One or Both Parties are Represented by Counsel If either or both of the parties are represented by counsel and the parties elect not to use a private mediator, either party or their counsel must contact the Program to schedule the mediation conference. • The parties must agree on the date and time for the mediation conference prior to scheduling. • If a mediation conference is not scheduled within 10 days from the date of the Order Referring Parties to Family Mediation, the case will be closed and an outcome form will be sent to the Clerk of the Circuit Court, Family Law Division ("clerk") indicating that the parties did not timely contact the Program. ii. • If neither party contacts the Program within 10 days from the date of the Order Referring Parties to Family Mediation , the case will be closed and an outcome form will be sent to the clerk indicating that the parties did not timely contact the Program. 3. • Deferment Within 15 days of the Order Referring Parties to Family Mediation, 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 Page 2 of 6 - Administrative Order S-2024-057 (Family Law Mediation) -- 2 of 6 -- conference. • If a hearing on the motion to defer cannot be set prior to the mediation conference date the moving party will, more than 48 hours before the originally scheduled conference, take necessary steps to reschedule the conference. • Discovery Not Limited Nothing in this administrative order will be construed as limiting the parties or their attorneys from scheduling discovery prior to the mediation conference. • Upon completion of mediation , the mediator will return a c ompleted Outcome of Se rvice form to the Program office within 48 hours of the mediation conference. 6. • Agreements Agree ments r ea ch ed during mediation must be m e morializ ed, completed and submitted in accordance with Florida Family Rule of Procedure 12.740(f). • 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 court holidays, before the scheduled mediation conference. • Petitioner, or if petitioner is represented by counsel, petitioner's counsel, must notify the Program in writing if the mediation must be cancelled because a settlement has been reached or the case has been dismissed more than 48 hours prior to the scheduled conference . 9. • Cancellation Fees If a party fails to appear at a scheduled mediation session, fails to make payment by the time of the mediation session, or fails to provide at least 24 hours prior written notice to the Program of the canceled mediation session, not counting weekends or holidays, the party will be billed for the cancelled mediation session. 11. • All payments made to the clerk must be accompanied by the invoice for payment. 12.
One or Both Parties are Represented by Counsel If either or both of the parties are represented by counsel and the parties elect not to use a private mediator, either party or their counsel must contact the Program to schedule the mediation conference.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: c391bec1c301389bd9ecd8c24d2c2949139b5202b0526522bd5747296872c65e (1773328 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.