In Re: Amendments to the Florida Supreme Court Approved Family Law Forms—nomenclature

Summary

The Florida Supreme Court amended the approved family-law forms to replace gendered terminology with gender-neutral language and to incorporate recent statutory and procedural changes. The amendments also clarified and harmonized instructions, separated factual findings from decretal provisions in certain judgments, addressed parental consent for children's mental-health treatment, and added two support-related forms. The amended forms took effect immediately and were published for a sixty-day comment period.