2010 Admin Order 10-30-s
Certain Chapter 39 dependency and Termination of Parental Rights matters that include matters of abuse, abandonment and neglect, may, through an informal and non-adversarial mediation process facilitated by a Supreme Court certified dependency mediator, be resolved in an amicable and expeditious manner and the parties may be facilitated by a Mediator in the identification of issues, the fostering of joint problem solving, the exploration of settlement alternatives to effect resolution of the dispute between two or more parties and the parties may through mediation agree on a means by which the issues may be resolved in order to effect a timely resolution of permanency for children; and It has been found that there are numerous benefits to dependency mediation as delineated in the May 30, 2009 Final Report of the Analysis of Dependency Mediation in Florida Courts prepared by The Harrell Center for the Study of Family Violence IT IS HEREBY ORDERED AND ADJUDGED THAT; more . . .