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7 verbatim mandatory provisions from 12-25-s.
Eighteenth 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. • For all homeowner-occupied residential mortgage foreclosure actions filed in Seminole County, Florida, and in which responsive pleadings or other filings asserting viable defenses or seeking any form of affirmative relief are filed by a homeowner Defendant, this order shall constitute an order of referral to mediation at Plaintiff’s expense. • Counsel for plaintiff shall coordinate and schedule the case for mediation prior to the date the matter is set for final or summary judgment hearing. • The plaintiff shall make a reasonable effort to coordinate the mediation with all parties and shall give the defendant homeowner(s) and any un-defaulted inferior lien holders reasonable advance notice of the date, time, and place of the mediation. • When plaintiff gives notice of the mediation, plaintiff shall also give written notice identifying the lender’s representative and attesting to the representative’s authority to participate in mediation and settle on behalf of the lender. 3. • Plaintiff shall provide lender’s loan modification package to defendant(s) within ten (10) days after scheduling mediation, and the defendant(s) shall provide the completed package at least fifteen (15) days prior to the date of the mediation. • Upon completion of the mediation, the mediator shall file a written report with fifteen (15) days from the date of the mediation. • If plaintiff fails to appear for mediation or no representative with full settlement authority appears, the action shall be dismissed without prejudice. 6.
For all homeowner-occupied residential mortgage foreclosure actions filed in Seminole County, Florida, and in which responsive pleadings or other filings asserting viable defenses or seeking any form of affirmative relief are filed by a homeowner Defendant, this order shall constitute an order of referral to mediation at Plaintiff’s expense.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 47ba8ffc3190ac90df7575ff39a49a26e09aafdbed76ee4b848965c885602449 (115669 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 Miller mandates pre-trial mediation after every Order Setting Trial — regardless of any earlier mediation — on pain of striking from the trial docket and sanctions up to dismissal without further notice or hearing.
2 summarised requirements on mediation.