Champion v. Champion

This is an appeal from a post-dissolution Order on Petitioner’s Motion for Enforcement and Request for Sanctions. In the order, the trial court “approved, affirmed, and adopted as an Order of this court,” the Magistrate’s Report and Recommendations, and found appellant’s exceptions to the report, filed in accordance with Florida Family Law Rule of Procedure 12.490(f), “not sufficient to require hearing.” Chief among appellant’s exceptions was the trial court’s failure to adhere to the mandate in rule 12.490(b)(1), that “[n]o matter shall be heard by a general magistrate without an appropriate…