Case Name: THE FLORIDA BAR, Petitioner, v. Steven K. PEAKE, d/b/a Divorce Services of America, d/b/a Divorce Services of Florida, Louis P. Graner, d/b/a Aaron Answering Service, Western Union International, Inc., d/b/a Able One Answering Service, and Van Royce Vibber, et al., Respondents
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1978-06-22
Citations: 364 So. 2d 431
Docket Number: No. 50848
Parties: THE FLORIDA BAR, Petitioner, v. Steven K. PEAKE, d/b/a Divorce Services of America, d/b/a Divorce Services of Florida, Louis P. Graner, d/b/a Aaron Answering Service, Western Union International, Inc., d/b/a Able One Answering Service, and Van Royce Vibber, et al., Respondents.
Judges: OVERTON, C. J„ and ADKINS, BOYD, ENGLAND, SUNDBERG and ALDERMAN, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 364
Pages: 431–433

Head Matter:
THE FLORIDA BAR, Petitioner, v. Steven K. PEAKE, d/b/a Divorce Services of America, d/b/a Divorce Services of Florida, Louis P. Graner, d/b/a Aaron Answering Service, Western Union International, Inc., d/b/a Able One Answering Service, and Van Royce Vibber, et al., Respondents.
No. 50848.
Supreme Court of Florida.
June 22, 1978.
As Modified Dec. 14, 1978.
R. Layton Mank, Chairman, Standing Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee, Miami, John A. Weiss, H. Glenn Boggs, Asst. Staff Counsels, The Florida Bar, Tallahassee, for petitioner.
Sherwin P. Simmons, Tampa, Marvin E. Barkin, Trenam, Simmons, Kemker, Scharf & Barkin, Tampa, for respondent, WUI/TAS, Inc., named in the Petition as Western Union International, Inc.

Opinion:
ORDER
On January 3,1977, The Florida Bar filed a petition with this Court charging that the respondents were engaging in the unauthorized practice of law, and seeking an injunction to prevent the continuation of such practice. The Bar specifically alleges that Steven K. Peake of Santa Monica, California, doing business as Divorce Services of Florida and Divorce Services of America, has through newspaper advertising solicited inquiries from Florida residents on dissolution of marriage procedures, and has furnished in return for a fee of $85.00 a "divorce kit," including all legal papers required to be filed in order to obtain an uncontested dissolution in Florida, together with instructions for filing. Acting upon the complaint of an individual who had purchased these services, the Bar asserts that respondents have engaged in the unauthorized practice of law "[b]y soliciting her legal work, by inquiring about various legal matters and by giving [her] legal advice thereto . . .," in violation of our decisions in The Florida Bar v. Stupica, 300 So.2d 683 (Fla.1974), and in The Florida Bar v. American Legal and Business Forms, Inc., 274 So.2d 225 (Fla.1973).
We issued a Rule to Show Cause, commanding the respondents to answer why they should not be held in contempt. Respondent Western Union International, Inc., d/b/a Able One Answering Service, answered the Rule to Show Cause by alleging it had only allowed Divorce Services of Florida to use its address as a mail drop and license location, that it was unaware that its tenant was engaging in the unauthorized practice of law, and that it has affirmatively terminated its business arrangements with that tenant.
In its reply, the Bar stipulated as to these facts and agreed to the dismissal of this respondent. Accordingly, this proceeding and the Rule to Show Cause heretofore issued are dismissed as to respondent Western Union International, Inc., d/b/a Able One Answering Service.
After initial difficulties effecting service of process on the other respondents, substituted service of an amended Rule to Show Cause was effected as to them on August 3, 1977, by 'service upon the Secretary of State in compliance with Section 48.161, Florida Statutes (1975), thus giving us personal jurisdiction over respondents under Florida's long-arm statute, Section 48.181, Florida Statutes (1975). No response has been filed by those respondents, and there appears to be, no reason why we should withhold further action. It is our judgment that, pursuant to the power vested in this Court under Article V, Section 15 of the Florida Constitution, respondents are hereby enjoined from further engaging in the unauthorized practice of law in the State of Florida, either individually or by means of any artifice.
It is so ordered.
OVERTON, C. J" and ADKINS, BOYD, ENGLAND, SUNDBERG and ALDERMAN, JJ., concur.
HATCHETT, J., concurs specially with an opinion.