Opinion
No. SC11–528.
2011-10-6
In re AMENDMENTS TO the FLORIDA RULES OF JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION AND the FLORIDA FAMILY LAW RULES OF PROCEDURE.
Original Proceeding—Rules of Judicial Administration Committee and Family Law Rules Committee.Keith H. Park, Chair, Rules of Judicial Administration Committee, West Palm Beach, FL, and Steven P. Combs, Past Chair, Jacksonville, FL; Ashley J. McCorvey Myers, Chair, Family Law Rules Committee, Jacksonville, FL, Katherine E. Giddings, Past Chair, Tallahassee, FL; and John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director, Ellen H. Sloyer Bar Liaison, and Jodi Beth Jennings, Bar Liaison, The Florida Bar, Tallahassee, FL, for Petitioner.PER CURIAM. We have for consideration proposed amendments to Florida Rule of Judicial Administration 2.545(d)(2) (Related Cases; Family Cases) and Florida Family Law Rule of Procedure 12.010(a)(1) (Scope). We have jurisdiction
CANADY, C.J., and PARIENTE, LEWIS, QUINCE, POLSTON, LABARGA, and PERRY, JJ., concur.
APPENDIX
RULE 2.545. CASE MANAGEMENT
(a)-(c) [No Change]
(d) Related Cases.
(1) [No Change]
(2) “Family cases” include dissolution of marriage, annulment, support unconnected with dissolution of marriage, paternity, child support, UIFSA, custodial care of and access to children, proceedings for temporary or concurrent custody of minor children by extended family, adoption, name change, declaratory judgment actions related to premarital, marital, or postmarital agreements, civil domestic, repeat violence, dating violence, and sexual violence injunctions, juvenile dependency, termination of parental rights, juvenile delinquency, emancipation of a minor, CINS/FINS, truancy, and modification and enforcement of orders entered in these cases.
(3)-(7) [No Change]
(e) [No Change]
Committee Notes
[No Change]
RULE 12.010. SCOPE, PURPOSE, AND TITLE
(a) Scope.
(1) These rules apply to all actions concerning family matters, including actions concerning domestic, repeat, dating, and sexual violence, except as otherwise provided by the Florida Rules of Juvenile Procedure or the Florida Probate Rules. “Family matters,” “family law matters,” or “family law cases” as used within these rules include, but are not limited to, matters arising from dissolution of marriage, annulment, support unconnected with dissolution of marriage, paternity, child support, an action involving a parenting plan for a minor child or children (except as otherwise provided by the Florida Rules of Juvenile Procedure), proceedings for temporary or concurrent custody of minor children by extended family, adoption, proceedings for emancipation of a minor, declaratory judgment actions related to premarital, marital, or post-marital agreements (except as otherwise provided, when applicable, by the Florida Probate Rules), injunctions for domestic, repeat, dating, and sexual violence, and all proceedings for modification, enforcement, and civil contempt of these actions.
(2) [No Change]
(b)-(c) [No Change]
1. See art. V, § 2(a), Fla. Const.; Fla. R. Jud. Admin. 2.140(f).