IN RE PETITION FOR APPROVAL OF FORMS PURSUANT TO RULE 10-1.1(b)

No. 80074.

613 So.2d 900 (1992)

In re PETITION FOR APPROVAL OF FORMS PURSUANT TO RULE 10-1.1(b) OF THE RULES REGULATING THE FLORIDA BAR — STEPPARENT ADOPTION FORMS.

Supreme Court of Florida.

December 24, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan T. Dimond, President, Miami, John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director, and Mary Ellen Bateman, UPL Counsel, Tallahassee, Robert M. Sondak, Chairman, Board Committee on Access to the Legal System, Miami, and Wayne L. Helsby, Chairman, Standing Committee on Simplified Forms, Orlando, for petitioner, The Florida Bar.

Daniel T. Carpenter of Carpenter & Brown, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, and Peter B. Dolinger, pro se, Palm Harbor, responding.


PER CURIAM.

The Board of Governors of The Florida Bar petitions us for approval of forms under Rule Regulating The Florida Bar 10-1.1(b). We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 2(a), Fla. Const. The forms deal with stepparent adoptions and we approve them.

Rule 10-1.1(b) permits "nonlawyers to engage in limited oral communications to assist a person in the completion of a legal form approved by the Supreme Court of Florida." Under the rule, oral communications...

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