IN RE: AMENDMENTS TO FLORIDA PROBATE RULE 5.010. (2025)

The Florida Bar's Probate Rules Committee proposes amending Florida Probate Rule 5.010 (Scope).¹ The Committee published the proposal for comment in The Florida Bar News; no comments were received by the Committee. The Florida Bar's Board of Governors unanimously recommends acceptance of the proposed amendments. The Court published the Committee's proposal in the July 1, 2025, issue of The Florida Bar News; no comments were received by the Court.

We adopt the amendments to rule 5.010 as proposed by the Committee. Rule 5.010 states that these rules govern the procedure in all probate and guardianship proceedings and lists the various parts of the rule set (Parts I-IV) and the purpose for each part. We amend the rule to include a reference to Part V (Forms), which was adopted by the Court in In re Amendments to the Florida Probate Rules—Guardianship, 301 So. 3d 859 (Fla. 2020). We amend the Committee Notes to reflect this change.

Accordingly, we amend the Florida Probate Rules as reflected in the appendix to this opinion. New language is underscored; deleted language is stricken. The amendments shall become effective on January 1, 2026, at 12:01 a.m.

It is so ordered.

THE FILING OF A MOTION FOR REHEARING SHALL NOT ALTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THESE AMENDMENTS.

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FOOTNOTES

1.   We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 2(a), Fla. Const.; see also Fla. R. Gen. Prac. & Jud. Admin. 2.140(b).

PER CURIAM.

MUÑIZ, C.J., and CANADY, LABARGA, COURIEL, GROSSHANS, FRANCIS, and SASSO, JJ., concur.