Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director, The Florida Bar, Tallahassee, Florida; and Michael L. Hastings, Chairperson, Family Law Rules Committee, Hastings & Estreicher, P.A., St. Petersburg, Florida, for Petitioner.
Steven H. Preston of Gurney & Handley, P.A., Orlando, Florida; Henry P. Trawick, Jr. of the Law Offices of Trawick, Valentine & Hagan, P.A., Sarasota, Florida; Honorable E. Earle Zehmer, Chief Judge, First District Court of Appeal, Tallahassee, Florida; Cynthia B. Glazier, Program Attorney, State of Florida Guardian Ad Litem Program, Fourth Judicial Circuit, Jacksonville, Florida; Beth E. Spiegel, North Miami Beach, Florida; S. William Goldstein of the Law Offices of Goldstein & Goldstein, Jacksonville, Florida; B. Niklas Brihammar, Key West, Florida; Paul R. Marcus of the Law Offices of Paul R. Marcus, Miami, Florida; Honorable Dale Ross, Chief Judge, Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Maurice Jay Kutner of Kutner & West, P.A., Miami, Florida; Richard P. Aranson of Beiner & Nussbaum, P.A., Boca Raton, Florida; Honorable Richard Yale Feder, Administrative Judge, Family Division, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Miami, Florida; Honorable Gerald T. Wetherington, Circuit Judge, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Miami, Florida; Honorable Joseph P. Farina, Chief Judge, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Miami, Florida; Honorable Donald Moran, Jr., Chief Judge and Honorable Hugh A. Carithers, Jr., Administrative Judge, Family Law Division, Fourth Judicial Circuit, Jacksonville, Florida; Andrew M. Leinoff of Leinoff & Silvers, P.A., Coral Gables, Florida; Honorable Hugh E. Starnes, Chief Judge, Twentieth Judicial Circuit, Fort Myers, Florida; Honorable Leonard Rivkind, Circuit Judge, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Miami, Florida; Honorable F. Dennis Alvarez, Chief Judge, and judges presiding in the Family Law Division, Thirteenth Judicial Circuit, Tampa, Florida; Peter M. Hockman, Homestead, Florida; Honorable Thomas S. Wilson, Jr., Circuit Judge, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Miami, Florida; Lawrence M. Watson, Jr., Chair, Supreme Court Committee on Mediation and Arbitration Rules, Orlando, Florida; Raquel A. Rodriquez, Coral Gables, Florida; Nancy M. Blount, Assistant State Attorney, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Miami, Florida; Darlene Schweitzer-Ramras of Schweitzer & Schweitzer-Ramras, P.A., Miami, Florida; Robert J. Jones, Miami, Florida; Marsha B. Elser, Cynthia L. Greene, Judith Hodor and Laura M. Fabar of Elser, Greene, Hodor & Fabar, Miami, Florida; Peter A. Collins, Miami, Florida; William A. Daniel, Jr., Miami, Florida; Norman D. Levin of Levin & Rabinowitz, Longwood, Florida; Honorable Anthony Rondolino, Circuit Judge, Sixth Judicial Circuit, St. Petersburg, Florida; Sharon L. Langer, Director, Dade County Bar Association Legal Aid Society, Miami, Florida; Honorable Alan S. Gold, Circuit Judge, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Miami, Florida; Fred M. Dellapa, Coral Gables, Florida; Joy B. Shearer, General Master, Administrative Office of the Court, Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, West Palm Beach, Florida; Rosemarie S. Roth, Miami, Florida; Martin J. Nolan, E.R. Whitehouse, Rusela V. Orr and Charlene Sharp Bogolub, certified and court appointed family mediators, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Miami, Florida; Bette Ellen Quiat, Miami, Florida; Perry S. Itkin, Chairperson, Education & Training Committee, Florida Association of Professional Family Mediators, Dispute Resolution, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Honorable Roger A. Silver, County Judge, County Court of Dade County, Miami, Florida; Marilyn Blumberg of the Law Offices of Bette Ellen Quiat, Miami, Florida; Honorable Herbert M. Klein, Circuit Judge, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Miami, Florida; Melvyn B. Frumkes of the Law Offices of Melvyn B. Frumkes & Associates, P.A., Miami, Florida; William T. Bornhauser, Director, Family Mediation Program, Twelfth Judicial Circuit, Sarasota, Florida; Honorable Ronald M. Friedman, Circuit Judge, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Miami, Florida; Honorable John L. Phillips, Administrative Judge, Family Division, Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, West Palm Beach, Florida; Honorable George S. Reynolds, III, Vice-Chair, Family Law Rules Committee, Second Judicial Circuit, Tallahassee, Florida; Honorable Stuart M. Simons, Circuit Judge, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Miami, Florida; Catherine Marie Ivey of the Law Office of Henshaw & Ivey, Cape Coral, Florida; and Honorable Seymour Benson, Circuit Judge, Eighteenth Judicial Circuit, Sanford, Florida, submitting comments regarding Family Law Rules.
