Case Name: Carlos M. GARCIA, Petitioner, v. Yasmin GARCIA, Respondent
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2013-03-28
Citations: 109 So. 3d 894
Docket Number: No. 3D13-743
Parties: Carlos M. GARCIA, Petitioner, v. Yasmin GARCIA, Respondent.
Judges: Before SHEPHERD and FERNANDEZ, JJ., and SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 109
Pages: 894–895

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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.