RULES OF CIV. PROC., IN RE PROPOSED RULES

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David U. Strawn, Chairman, Mediation and Arbitration Committee, Orlando, Richard Doelker, President, Florida Ass'n of Professional Family Mediators, and Peter O. Brick, Vice-President, Port Richey, for petitioner.

Carole S. Priede, Director, Family Court Services, Hillsborough County Courthouse, Tampa, Maurice Jay Kutner, Chairman, Family Law Section, Miami, Ira Abrams of Abrams & Abrams, P.A., Co-Chairman, Family Law Section Rules Committee, Coconut Grove, Cynthia Green, Chairman, Family Law Section Amicus Committee, Miami, Joseph R. Boyd and William H. Branch of Boyd and Branch, P.A., Tallahassee, and Chriss Walker, Florida Dept. of Health and Rehabilitative Services, Tallahassee, for the State of Fla., Dept. of Health and Rehabilitative Services, John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director, The Florida Bar, and Terrence Russell, Chairman, Ft. Lauderdale, Alan T. Dimond, Miami, and Ben H. Hill, III, Tampa, on behalf of the Board of Governors, Geral T. Wetherington, Chief Judge, and Leslie Ratliff and Donald Pollock, Eleventh Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Courts Legal Div., Miami, Rene Grafals, Regional Vice-President, American Arbitration Ass'n, Miami, Gilbert A. Smith, Chief Judge, Twelfth Judicial Circuit, The Ass'n of Retired Attys., Inc., Sarasota, D.T.K. Hurley, Chairperson, M. Cadwell, Court Mediator and Susan D. Ferrante, Court Administrator, Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, West Palm Beach, Michael P. McMahon, Chairman, Citizens Dispute Settlement Center, Orange County Bar Ass'n, Orlando, Melvin A. Rubin, South Florida Counsel on Divorce Mediation, Miami, Geraldine Lee Waxmman, Plantation, and other Florida Bar members, responding to petitioner.