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7 verbatim mandatory provisions from Foreclosure Court.
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 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.