IN RE PROPOSED RULES FOR IMPLEMENTATION

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. and Chriss Walker, Tallahassee, for the State of Fla., Dept. of Health and Rehabilitative Services, John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director, Florida Bar, and Terrence Russell, Chairman, Fort Lauderdale, Alan T. Dimond, Miami, and Ben H. Hill, III, Tampa, on behalf of the Bd. of Governors, Gerald T. Wetherington, Chief Judge, and Leslie Ratliff and Donald Pollock, Eleventh Judicial Circuit Administrative Office of the Court Legal Div., Rene Grafals, Regional Vice-President, American Arbitration Ass'n, Miami, Gilbert A. Smith, Chief Judge, Twelfth Judicial Circuit, 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 Waxman, Plantation, Theodore Babbitt of Babbitt and Hazouri, P.A., West Palm Beach, and other Florida Bar members, responding to petition.