In Re: Amendments to Florida Rules of Civil Procedure
The Florida Supreme Court adopted Civil Procedure Rules Committee proposals amending Rules 1.070 (Process), 1.410 (Subpoena), 1.550 (Executions and Final Process), 1.560 (Discovery in Aid of Execution), and 1.730 (Completion of Mediation), effective April 1, 2025. The most consequential change for practitioners is the amendment to Rule 1.730, which eliminates the requirement that counsel for each party sign a court-ordered mediation agreement and instead permits a party representative with full settlement authority under Rule 1.720(c) to sign in place of the party. The remaining amendments modernize archaic terminology across process, subpoena, and execution rules — primarily removing the word "praecipe" and replacing Latin-inflected and overly formal phrasing — with no substantive change to the underlying procedures.
Key facts
- The Florida Bar's Civil Procedure Rules Committee, chaired by Cosme Caballero, filed a report proposing amendments to five civil procedure rules; the Committee and the Bar's Board of Governors both approved the proposals before submission to the Court.
- The Court published the proposals for public comment and received two comments — one from Tampa counsel Joshua Burnett and Mackenzie Rocha, and one from Ana Cristina Maldonado on behalf of the ADR Section's Executive Council — but the Committee's response did not propose further changes.
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Holdings
- The word 'praecipe' and other archaic formal terms are removed from Rules 1.070, 1.410, and 1.550 to modernize the rules without altering the substantive procedures for issuing process…
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