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Supreme Court sets unbundled services criteria for family cases.

By Blankenship, Gary
Publication: Florida Bar News
Date: Monday, December 1 2003

Beginning January 1, family law lawyers may offer limited assistance to pro se litigants in family law cases, following Florida Supreme Court approval of amendments to Bar and family law rules.

Acting November 13, in Amendments to the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar and the Florida Family Law Rules of Procedure (Unbundled Legal Services), case no. SC02-2035, the court approved the recommendations from the Bar's Unbundled Legal Services Special Committee II, with some changes.

The amendments allow lawyers to accept representation for discrete tasks in a fami

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