Case ID: so3d_109/html/0894-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "SHEPHERD, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Carlos M. GARCIA, Petitioner, v. Yasmin GARCIA, Respondent.
    No. 3D13-743.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    March 28, 2013.
    Barranco & Kircher, and A.J. Barranco and Bonnie Riley; Ross & Girten and Lauri Waldman Ross, Miami, for petitioner.
    Kirschbaum, Birnbaum, Lippman & Gregoire and Nancy W. Gregoire (Fort Lauderdale); Padrón & Estevez-Pazos and Luis M. Padrón, Coral Gables, for respondent.
    Before SHEPHERD and FERNANDEZ, JJ., and SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.
   SHEPHERD, J.

We treat the instant petition for a writ of prohibition or mandamus as a petition for certiorari and quash the order appointing a special magistrate to hear all discovery matters in this marital dissolution case. As the respondent’s counsel properly concedes, the order, which was entered without consent of the parties, is over-broad and contrary to established law. As stated in Florida Family Law Rule 12.492(b), “without consent of the parties [the trial court] may [only] appoint an attorney as a special magistrate to preside over depositions and rule upon objections.”

Petition granted, and order quashed.