IN RE RULES REGULATING FLORIDA BAR — WILLFUL NONPAYMENT OF CHILD SUPPORT

No. 84390.

649 So.2d 868 (1995)

In re RULES REGULATING THE FLORIDA BAR — WILLFUL NONPAYMENT OF CHILD SUPPORT.

Supreme Court of Florida.

February 9, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William F. Blews, President, John A. DeVault III, President-elect and John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director, The Florida Bar, Tallahassee, Michelle Dunaj, Miami, Melbourne L. Martin, Fernandina Beach, Paul D. Harvill, Tallahassee, Samuel Patterson Stafford, Judicial Hearing Officer, Eighth Judicial Circuit, Gainesville, Lynne B. Eagen, Tallahassee, John T. Longino, Chatsworth, GA, and John Hume, Hume & Johnson, P.A., Coral Springs, Responding.


PER CURIAM.

On November 3, 1994, this Court promulgated for comment a proposed new disciplinary rule under the authority of article V, sections 2 and 15, of the Florida Constitution, to provide for sanctions for attorneys who fail to meet child support obligations. As we stated in that order, such an amendment would make the treatment of attorneys who fail to pay child support consistent with the treatment of other professionals who fail to pay child support, in accordance...

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