A Task Force assembled by the Supreme Court of Florida recently recommended that all of Florida's Trial Courts adopt a policy to require Mediations in Foreclosure Cases. This is part of an effort to avoid evicting people from their homes whenever eviction can be avoided by mutual agreement between the Lender-Plaintiff and the Borrower-Defendant in the Foreclosure Case. Report of the Florida Supreme Court Task Force on Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Cases, August 17, 2009: Download Filed_08-17-2009_Foreclosure_Final_Report. Foreclosure Mediations may be ordered in Foreclosure Cases, but Mediator participation at greatly reduced rates is voluntary.
This policy is already in effect in many if not all Florida Circuit Courts. Mediators who are willing to volunteer their time and services in this effort in the Ninth Circuit in the Orlando, Florida area only have to link to the Orange County (Florida) Bar Association here to volunteer.
Volunteer Mediators in the Seminole County, Florida area may send their resume, a copy of their Mediator Certificate, and a cover letter to:
Seminole
Mediation Department
Re:
If there is a program of Foreclosure Mediation in your jurisdiction, and if you are a Certified Mediator, please consider volunteering your time and services, too.
If there is no program yet in your jurisdiction, please consider starting one. Then be among the first volunteer Mediators in the Mediation Foreclosure program in your Court. Without you, it cannot be done nearly as well.
To rephrase an insight penned by Albert Camus:
This may be a world in which people are evicted from their homes. We may not be able to do anything about that. But we can lessen the number of people who are evicted from their homes. If you do not help in this effort, who will?
An identical call to Mediators is posted on this same date on Insurance Claims Issues Web Log at www.insuranceclaimsissues.typepad.com.
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