In re: Amendments to Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.530 and Florida Family Law Rule of Procedure 12.530
After receiving comments on its 2022 amendments requiring a motion for rehearing to preserve challenges to trial court findings, the Florida Supreme Court further revised Rules 1.530(a) and 12.530(a). The phrase 'sufficiency of a trial court's findings in the final judgment' was replaced with 'failure of the trial court to make required findings of fact in the final judgment,' narrowing the mandatory-rehearing preservation requirement to cases where a judge is required by law to make specific factual findings.
Key facts
- The Florida Supreme Court amended Florida Rules of Civil Procedure 1.530(a) and Family Law Rule of Procedure 12.530(a) to clarify when a motion for rehearing is required to preserve appellate challenges to trial court findings.
- The 2022 amendments had required motions for rehearing to preserve challenges to the 'sufficiency' of trial court findings, creating uncertainty about what challenges required preservation.
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Why it matters
This narrows a preservation trap that had generated uncertainty since the 2022 amendments: counsel need only file a rehearing motion to preserve a complaint that the trial court omitted findings the law required, not… — full analysis with a trial
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