Judge Shari Africk-Olefson: Continuances — Broward County, FL · BenchPath

Seventeenth Cir. — Judge Shari Africk-Olefson: Continuances

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Deadlines & Time ComputationSeventeenth Judicial Circuit (pp. https://www.17th.flcourts.org/division-25/) — captured and sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Summary

4 verbatim requirements on continuances.

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Seventeenth Judicial Circuit — Judge Shari Africk-Olefson only. Practices change without notice; the court's own published text controls. Procedural information only; not legal advice.

Source of truth

Attendance at CC is mandatory. The Court invests significant time preparing for CC beginning in advance with the entry of PTOs. You must be in full compliance with the UTO and PTO by CC. Oftentimes, cases with upcoming Trials are prioritized for various purposes, including allocating scarce hearing times. For these reasons, and as required by the UTO, all Motions to Continue and Notices of Conflict or Unavailability must be filed and heard before CC. The Court will not entertain any requests to continue, conflicts, or unavailability at CC; CC is only for purposes of verifying your preference for Trial week 1, 2, or 3, which we will try to accommodate as a courtesy. If you have not already filed a Notice of Conflict or Unavailability or been granted a Motion to Continue by the time you appear for CC, you are presumed to be fully available week 1, 2, and 3. Please read your UTO carefully t

Official source: 17th Circuit — Court site corpus (AO archive, local rules, judiciary)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
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Last verified: September 9, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-08 (live text containment) | prior: benchpath-completeness-2026-07-24

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Source sha256: 3bebd619c75f9f753cc83dc1444a6bda7b28ca0c0a967c2e2c46a7db710fa524. Corpus categories: CONTINUANCES. Published during the 2026-07-24 completeness pass. Verbatim from the published source, captured 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

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