The Supreme Court of South Carolina

RE: Circuit Court Arbitration and Mediation and Family Court Mediation

ORDER

By order dated February 1, 2006, this Court adopted Court-Annexed Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Rules which govern court-annexed ADR processes in South Carolina Circuit Courts in civil suits, and in South Carolina Family Courts in domestic relations actions in counties designated by this Court for mandatory ADR or as required by statute. Effective with cases filed on or after January 1, 2008, the counties in the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit join those counties previously designated by this Court for mandatory ADR. The counties designated by this Court for mandatory ADR are as follows:

Allendale	Hampton
Anderson	Horry
Beaufort	Jasper
Colleton	Lexington
Florence	Pickens - Family Court only
Greenville	Richland

Effective January 1, 2008, this order supersedes the order dated June 21, 2006 listing the counties previously designated for mandatory ADR.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

	s/ Jean Hoefer Toal		C.J.
	Jean Hoefer Toal
	s/ James E. Moore			J.
	James E. Moore
	s/ John H. Waller, Jr.			J.
	John H. Waller, Jr.
	s/ Costa M. Pleicones			J.
	Costa M. Pleicones
	s/ Donald W. Beatty			J.
	Donald W. Beatty

Columbia, South Carolina
November 15, 2007