Wednesday, February 09, 2005

Amendments to the Florida Rules of Juvenile Procedure Impact Dependency Mediation

The Florida Supreme Court, effective January 27, 2005, approved Amendments to the Florida Rules of Juvenile Procedure, 2005 Fla. LEXIS 92 [Fla. 2005] including Dependency Mediation, Rule 8.290 [pages 59-63]. The Dependency Mediation amendment now requires dependency mediation to comply with statutory timelines and deletes language in the prior rule which permitted a waiver of time requirements by all parties with court approval. - no wiggle room!

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