RE FLORIDA RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE

No. 69676.

503 So.2d 894 (1987)

RE FLORIDA RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE (AMENDMENT TO RULES 1.490 AND 1.611).

Supreme Court of Florida.

February 26, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David F. Patterson, Chairman, St. Petersburg, for Judicial Administrative Section, Conference of Circuit Judges.

Ira Abrams, Chairman, Coconut Grove, and Maurice J. Kutner, Chairman-elect, Miami, for Family Law Section of The Florida Bar, Rules Committee.

Phillip J. Jones, Chairman, Punta Gorda, for the Family Law Liaison, Subcommittee of the Rules of Civil Procedure Committee.

Henry P. Trawick, Jr. of Trawick, Hammersley & Valentine, Sarasota, Martin J. Campbell, Tavares, Gerald T. Wetherington, Chief Judge Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Miami, Joseph P. Klock, Jr., Miami, Joseph R. Boyd, William H. Branch and Susan S. Thompson of Boyd and Thompson, P.A., and Chriss Walker of the Dept. of Health and Rehabilitative Services, Tallahassee, for respondents.


McDONALD, Chief Justice.

This is an original proceeding to consider the adoption of amendments to Florida Rules of Civil Procedure 1.490 and 1.611. These amendments would allow the use of special masters in child support enforcement proceedings. We have jurisdiction pursuant to article V, section 2(a) of the Florida Constitution.

Federal rules adopted in the 1984 amendments to Title IV-D of the Social Security Act require states to establish extra-judicial...

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