AMEND. TO FLA. RULES OF JUV. PROCEDURE

No. 89681.

696 So.2d 763 (1997)

AMENDMENTS TO FLORIDA RULES OF JUVENILE PROCEDURE AND FLORIDA RULES FOR CERTIFIED AND COURT-APPOINTED MEDIATORS.

Supreme Court of Florida.

July 10, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence M. Watson, Jr., Chairman, Mediation and Arbitration Rules Committee, Orlando, and Kathleen Kearney, Circuit Court Judge, Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Fort Lauderdale, for Petitioner.

John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director, The Florida Bar, Tallahassee, Ward L. Metzger, Chairman, Jacksonville, and Patricia A. Savitz, The Florida Bar, Orlando, on behalf of the Juvenile Court Rules Committee; William T. Bornhauser, Director, Family Mediation Program, Twelfth Judicial Circuit, Sarasota; Marianne Kantor, Certified Mediator for Civil Circuit & County Court Family & Federal Mediations, Ft. Myers, Melvin A. Rubin, Florida Association of Professional Family Mediators, Inc., Coral Gables, and Anthony V. Pace, Jr., Bar Member, Boca Raton, responding.


WELLS, Justice.

The Supreme Court Mediation and Arbitration Rules Committee petitions this Court to consider amendments to the Florida Rules of Juvenile Procedure and the Florida Rules for Certified and Court-Appointed Mediators. Pursuant to article V, section 2(a), of the Florida Constitution, we have jurisdiction.

In response to the enactment of section 39.4033, Florida Statutes (1995) ("Referral of a dependency case to mediation"), which provides that dependency...

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