In Re: Amendments to Rule Regulating The Florida Bar 4-1.19 and Florida Family Law Rule of Procedure 12.745 (Collaborative Law Process)

This matter is before the Court for consideration of proposed amendments to the Rules Regulating the Florida Bar (Bar Rules) and the Florida Family Law Rules of Procedure (Family Law Rules), pertaining to the collaborative law process in family law cases. We have jurisdiction. See art. V, §§ 2(a), 15, Fla. Const.

BACKGROUND

In In re Amendments to the Florida Family Law Rules of Procedure, 84 So.3d 257 (Fla. 2012), this Court considered proposed amendments to the Family Law Rules addressing the collaborative law process. As. we explained in our 2012 opinion, the collaborative law process is a…