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4 verbatim mandatory provisions from 13-17-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. • FORECLOSURE - RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE NOTICE OF LIMITED APPEARANCE FOR MEDIATION ONLY _____________________________________________________________________________________ WHEREAS, mediation is required in certain residential foreclosures pursuant to the terms of Administrative Order No. 12-25-S; and WHEREAS, many defendants in those cases are not represented by counsel and are unfamiliar with the mediation process; and WHEREAS, Seminole County Legal Aid has received a grant to assist unrepresented defendants in the foreclosure process; and WHEREAS, a number of lawyers have offered to assist unrepresented defendants on a limited basis pro bono; • NOW THEREFORE, in order to facilitate the efficient operation of the administration of justice, and pursuant to the authority vested in me as Chief Judge of the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit of Florida under Florida Rule of Judicial Administration 2.215, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that any attorney wishing to represent a defendant pro bono during the mediation process in a residential mortgage foreclosure case regardless of whether the attorney is referred by a program run by lawyer referral, legal aid, or legal services program or on the lawyer’s own volition shall file a limited notice of appearance in the form attached as Exhibit A and serve copies on the parties and the assigned mediator. • When the notice of limited appearance is filed the attorney must attend the mediation session unless allowed to withdraw by the court. • Copies of all pleadings, filings and other correspondence must be served upon the defendant, ________________________________ at the following address: ______________________________________________________, and not the undersigned.
FORECLOSURE - RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE NOTICE OF LIMITED APPEARANCE FOR MEDIATION ONLY _____________________________________________________________________________________ WHEREAS, mediation is required in certain residential foreclosures pursuant to the terms of Administrative Order No. 12-25-S; and WHEREAS, many defendants in those cases are not represented by counsel and are unfamiliar with the mediation process; and WHEREAS, Seminole County Legal Aid has received a grant to assist unrepresented defendants in the foreclosure process; and WHEREAS, a number of lawyers have offered to assist unrepresented defendants on a limited basis pro bono;
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 15b3380b59f5e64a4656d79be02c703fc707283a8d97e5ce94a27912f7819d3a (130887 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 Sherman requires TWO identical bound hard-copy sets of pre-marked exhibits for evidentiary hearings at least 7 days out — and anything over 50 pages must arrive as bound hard copies by mail.
Judge Hafele: exhibits in chambers three days before any evidentiary proceeding, courtesy copies two days out, all hearing materials three business days ahead, and interpreter requests seven days in advance.
Judge Mullinax wants physical copies of all documents and exhibits for in-person hearings/trials provided five days in advance; orders in Word (no macros/columns/tabs) within 48 hours, final judgments with a 3-inch top-right margin.