In Re H&R Block Financial Advisors, Inc.

OPINION

EVA M. GUZMAN, Justice.

Relator H & R Block Financial Advis-ors, Inc. filed the instant mandamus action seeking an order compelling the respondent 1 to enforce a contractual arbitration clause. Real party Andrew Michael Kryn-ik opposes enforcement, asserting that the arbitration provision is moot and that H & R Block waived arbitration by substantially invoking the judicial process. We conditionally grant the petition.

I. Factual And PROCEDURAL Background

When Krynik was a minor, his father opened two Uniform Gift to Minor Act accounts with The Olde Discount Corporation, now H & R Block.…