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This manual guides the practitioner through the multiple steps necessary to procedurally ready a case for trial and is the perfect compliment to Florida Civil Trial Practice. This popular reference includes recent significant changes made by case law, statutes, and rules amendments.
Highlights of the Fourteenth Edition include discussions of:
- Updated case law, statutes, Rules of Procedure, forms, etc.
- Hot Topics:
- Planning and preparing a case, scientific testing, and the Florida Supreme Court's recent confirmation of Florida as a Daubert state.
- Tax considerations, dissolution of marriage and separation agreements, and the impact of the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
- Updated and expanded discussion of tribal sovereign immunity and waiver.
- Discussion of unsettled legal issue: Whether the Florida Rules of Appellate Procedure permit an appeal of a nonfinal order denying sovereign immunity when the record shows that the defendant is entitled to immunity as a matter of law but the trial court does not explicitly preclude it as a defense.
- Discussion of unsettled legal issue: Whether the filing of a notice of lis pendens at the commencement of a foreclosure action prevents a local government from exercising its authority to enforce code violations existing on the foreclosed property after final foreclosure judgment and before judicial sale, when the local government's interest or lien arises after final judgment and did not exist within 30 days after the recording of the notice of lis pendens.
- Recent amendment to the landlord-tenant statute as it relates to self-storage facilities, providing for public website sales and limitations on the value of property stored in a storage space, and adding provision to specifically address motor vehicles and watercraft.
- Florida Supreme Court’s recent decision in Salinas v. Ramsey, 234 So.3d 569 (Fla. 2018), holding that collection activity on a federal judgment issued by a Florida court, including post-judgment discovery, is not an “action on a judgment” subject to the five-year limitations period, but instead is permitted for the 20-year life of the judgment.
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The ISBN for the 13th Edition was 9781522186281.
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Table of contents
Chapter 1 Lawyer-Client Relationship
Hon. Mark W. Klingensmith
Chapter 2 Organization And Development Of Case
Legal Publications Staff
Chapter 3 Tax Considerations Of Litigation
Benjamin K. Phipps
Chapter 4 Settlement
Jorge A. Mestre
Chapter 5 Choice Of Remedy
Scott L. Cagan
Chapter 6 Jurisdiction
Jorge A. Mestre
Chapter 7 Venue
Steven A. Fox
Chapter 8 Claims Against Public Entities And Employees
Steven A. Fox
Chapter 9 Protecting Litigation Rights
Hassia Diolombi
Chapter 10 Statutes Of Limitations
Roberto M. Vargas
Chapter 11 Joinder Of Parties And Actions
Robert J. Telfer III
Chapter 12 Pleadings
Christine M. Hoke and Leeza D. Newman
Chapter 13 Motions And Orders
Patrick P. Coll
Chapter 14 Process And Appearance
Robert J. Telfer III
Chapter 15 Removal And Remand
Daniel O. Mena and Martha R. Mora
Chapter 16 Discovery
Steven D. Ginsburg and Hassia T. Diolombi
Chapter 17 Case Management And Pretrial Conferences
Christine M. Hoke and Leeza D. Newman
Chapter 18 Default And Relief from Default
Daniel O. Mena and Martha R. Mora
Chapter 19 Summary Judgment
Antonio C. Castro
Chapter 20 Dismissals
Christine M. Hoke and Leeza D. Newman
Chapter 21 Injunctions
Jorge A. Mestre
Chapter 22 Declaratory Relief
Alan S. Wachs
Chapter 23 Interpleader
Robert J. Telfer III
Chapter 24 Receiverships In Florida
Michael P. Dickey
Chapter 25 Extraordinary Writs And Remedies
Matthew J. Conigliaro
Chapter 26 Third-Party Practice
Jorge A. Mestre
Chapter 27 Common-Law Pleading, Forms Of Action, And Glossary Of Terms
Antonio C. Castro
Chapter 28 Comparative Fault
Jorge A. Mestre
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