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2012 Florida Statutes
SECTION 13
Judge ad litem; when may be selected in the circuit or county court.
Judge ad litem; when may be selected in the circuit or county court.
38.13 Judge ad litem; when may be selected in the circuit or county court.—When, from any cause, the judge of a circuit or county court is disqualified from presiding in any civil case, the parties may agree upon an attorney at law, which agreement shall be entered upon the record of said cause, who shall be judge ad litem and shall preside over the trial of, and make orders in, said case as if he or she were the judge of the court. Nothing in this section shall prevent the parties from transferring the cause to another circuit or county court, as the case may be.
History.—s. 1, ch. 3713, 1887; RS 974; GS 1344; RGS 2533; CGL 4160; s. 7, ch. 22858, 1945; s. 4, ch. 73-334; s. 213, ch. 95-147.