Central Florida Mandatory Mediation Order Affecting Owner-Occupant Home Foreclosures Excludes Osceola County

In Osceola County, Florida, the Orlando Sentinel reports:

• Homeowners facing foreclosure in Osceola County may be shut out of a process that could have provided some relief to them, because the judge who oversees their cases opposes it.

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• Late last month, 9th Judicial Circuit Chief Judge Belvin Perry, who oversees state courts in Osceola and Orange counties, issued an administrative order that makes mediation mandatory in foreclosure cases. [...] But the order doesn't apply to Osceola, where almost one of every 10 homes is going back to the lender, because administrative Judge R. James Stroker, who oversees Osceola, made the case against it. He wrote a letter to Perry objecting to mandatory mediation but refused to turn the letter over to the Sentinel.

For more, see Foreclosure mediation unnecessary, Osceola judge says.