Summary


The procedural rule revisions improve definitions, implement mandatory electronic filing, streamline the service of pleadings, promote the timely resolution of attorney's fees and costs, discourage duplication and unnecessary filings, encourage timely orders, streamline mediation, promote timely discovery and entry of discovery orders, streamline motion practice, improve pretrial procedures, require JCCs to approve stipulations, streamline the collection of child support arrearages, and streamline the payment of attorney’s fees and costs, with the goal of maintaining a self-sufficient and self-executing adjudicatory process.