Broward Division 25 (SHARI AFRICK-OLEFSON) — Divisional requirements

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Timeslots for hearings open on the first business day of each month for the month approximately sixty (60) days out. Timeslots for hearings also become re-available several days before the hearings as issues and cases resolve; often several timeslots daily. If you cannot find a timeslot for UMC, simply e-mail us, we can almost always fit you in promptly. We maintain a request for Special Set hearing back-up list in order to fill cancellation slots. It is mandatory that all parties consult with one another regarding their availability, amount of time needed and whether an evidentiary hearing is desired before setting any hearing. It is not appropriate for opposing parties to wait until a hearing begins to object to it. However if, three (3) reasonable good faith attempts to do so are unsuccessful, a party may unilaterally set a hearing. Once the hearing has been set, the Notice of Hearing

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17th Circuit — Court site corpus (AO archive, local rules, judiciary)

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Healthy · checked October 24, 2026

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September 9, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-08 (live text containment) | prior: benchpath-completeness-2026-07-24

Reviewer note: Document sha256: 3bebd619c75f9f753cc83dc1444a6bda7b28ca0c0a967c2e2c46a7db710fa524. Corpus topic: SPECIAL_SET. Published during the completeness pass — the audit found 2,753 verbatim requirements against 123 published rules. Verbatim from the published divisional procedures, captured 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]