AMEND. TO FLA. FAMILY LAW RULES OF PROC.

No. 93,319.

725 So.2d 365 (1998)

IN RE AMENDMENTS TO THE FLORIDA FAMILY LAW RULES OF PROCEDURE (SELF HELP).

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied December 24, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Karen K. Cole, Chair, Family Court Steering Committee, Jacksonville, and Judith Kreeger, Chair, Self Help Subcommittee, Miami, for Petitioner.

Howard C. Coker, President, and John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director, for The Florida Bar, Tallahassee, Florida, and Sharon L. Langer, Board of Governors, Miami, Florida, George S. Reynolds, III, Chair, Family Law Rules Committee, Tallahassee, Florida, Carmen R. Pintado, Supervising Attorney, Miami, Florida, and Temys M. Diaz, Wendy L. Robbins, and Rene H. De Los Rios, Staff Attorneys, Miami, Florida, for The Family Court Self Help Project of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit and the Legal Aid Society of the Dade County Bar Association, Richard B. Orfinger, Chief Judge, Seventh Judicial Circuit, Daytona Beach, Florida, Ross L. Baer and Sue-Ellen Kenny, Supervising Attorneys, Palm Beach County Self Help Center, The Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County, Inc., West Palm Beach, Florida, and Jim Dulfer, Managing Attorney, for Central Florida Legal Services, Inc., Daytona Beach, Florida, Responding.


OVERTON, J.

In In re Family Court Steering Committee (Fla. Aug. 22, 1996) (Administrative Order), then Chief Justice Kogan directed the Family Court Steering Committee to recommend, among other things, "ways courts can assist self-represented litigants access the family courts through the use of standardized simplified forms, self-help centers, technological innovations, and other mechanisms, as appropriate." Pursuant to that directive, the steering committee...

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