Court Opinion

ID: 4799732
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-08-20 23:09:18.429459+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:10:07.741184
License: Public Domain

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 *895case. 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.