AMENDMENTS TO THE FLORIDA FAMILY LAW RULES

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director, The Florida Bar, Tallahassee, Linda Vitale, Outgoing Chair, Florida Family Law Rules Committee, Fort Lauderdale, Burton Young, Chair, Florida Family Law Rules Committee, Young, Berman & Karpf, P.A., North Miami Beach, Durand Adams, Chair, Family Court Steering Committee, Bradenton, Debra Behnke, Co-Chair, Access to the Courts Workgroup, Family Courts Steering Committee, Tampa, and George S. Reynolds, III, Co-Chair, Access to the Courts Workgroup, Family Courts Steering Committee, Tallahassee, for Petitioner.

Amy Karan, Administrative Judge, Richard Yale Feder, Administrative Judge, Judith Kreeger, Associate Administrative Judge, Lester Langer, Circuit Judge, Michael B. Chavies, Circuit Judge, Eugene Fierro, Circuit Judge, Carol R. Gersten, Circuit Judge, Maynard Gross, Circuit Judge, Gerald D. Hubbart, Circuit Judge, Arthur Taylor, Circuit Judge, Cecilia Altonaga, County Judge, Deborah White Labora, County Judge, Mark King Leban, County Judge and Bertha Soto, County Judge, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Miami, Robert L. Doyel, Circuit Judge, Tenth Judicial Circuit, Bartow, J.K. "Buddy" Irby, Clerk of the Circuit Court for Alachua County, Gainesville, Katherine Fernandez Rundle, State Attorney, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Miami, Gerald S. Deutsch, Fort Lauderdale, Robert E. Schroeder, Director, Department of Human Services, on behalf of Metro-Dade Advocates for Victims Program, Miami, B. Niklas Brihammar of Sheri Smallwood, Chartered, Key West, Patricia Grogan, Chair, Governor's Task Force on Domestic and Sexual Violence, Florida Department of Community Affairs, Tallahassee, Caroline C. Emery, Jacksonville, Kathryn Gutstein, Chairperson, Dade County Alliance Against Domestic Violence, Miami, Ivon Mesa, on behalf of the Commission on the Status of Women, Miami, Rana Holz of Rubinstein & Holz, P.A., Fort Myers, Virginia Daire, General Counsel, Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Tallahassee, A. Quinn Jones, III, City Attorney and Ana Maria Pando, Assistant City Attorney, on behalf of the City of Miami Police Department, Miami, Marilyn R. McLean, Staff Attorney, Family Court Division, Eighth Judicial Circuit, Gainesville, Robert J. Jones, Administrative General Master, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Miami, David B. Higginbottom, Frostproof, George F. Hachigian, Staff Representative, on behalf of the Fraternal Order of Police, Florida Labor Council, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, Linda J. Blue, Major, Metro-Dade Police Department, Domestic Crimes Bureau, Miami, Rachel Kronick, on behalf of Dade County Bar Association Legal Aid Society Domestic Violence Project, Miami, Geraldine E. Bishop, Judicial Staff Attorney, Fifth Judicial Circuit, Brooksville, Robert L. Vogel, Jr., Sheriff and Lt. Craig Broughton, Volusia County Sheriff's Department, Daytona Beach, comments regarding Family Law Rules.