<div dir="ltr">Dear Leasing: Please see below update from Shawn Brown, which impacts eviction proceedings. <div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Kristen King Jaiven, Esq.</div>Kristen King Jaiven, Lawyer, PLLC<div>Cell: 407-590-9686</div><div><a href="http://www.kkjlawyer.com" target="_blank">www.kkjlawyer.com</a></div><div>Email: <a href="mailto:Kristen@kkjlawyer.com" target="_blank">Kristen@kkjlawyer.com</a></div><div>LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristen-n-king-jaiven-esq-/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristen-n-king-jaiven-esq-/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><img width="200" height="135" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4w77qmwTSET9W-cw24eW6DSdiFOILLs3Q4fjW8urm_OAgqSbKwyhKbFghow0UNqbRsHVswJwXg"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium"> </span></div></div></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Shawn Brown</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:sbrown@sgbrownlaw.com">sbrown@sgbrownlaw.com</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Jun 6, 2024 at 4:58 PM<br>Subject: [RPPTL-realpropertylitigation] Amendments to Florida Rules of Civil Procedure<br>To: <a href="mailto:realpropertylitigation@lists.flabarrpptl.org">realpropertylitigation@lists.flabarrpptl.org</a> <<a href="mailto:realpropertylitigation@lists.flabarrpptl.org">realpropertylitigation@lists.flabarrpptl.org</a>><br></div><br><br><div class="msg5445705333128217474">
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<p class="MsoNormal">On behalf of myself and my-co Chair Manny Farach, attached is the decision from the Florida Supreme Court from earlier today adopting additional amendments to Florida’s Rules of Civil Procedure.
<b>These amendments to the Florida Rules</b> <b>take effect on July 1, 2024</b>, which is 25 days from now. These amendments were proposed by the Bar’s Civil Procedure Rules Committee. Below is a summary of some of the amendments.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Many of the changes are replacing the word “shall” with “must” and other similar grammatical changes. However, there are several amendments of note. The Court rejected the Committee’s proposed amendment to Rule 1.820(g)(3) on the completion
of the arbitration process in the electronic filing era. The issue the Court has asked the Committee to revisit is how to allow for the arbitration order to be served on the parties but not filed with the court to where the presiding judge could view the
order in violation of s. 44.103(5), Fla. Stat. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For those of you who handle residential evictions, there are three new forms adopted by the Court. Two are summons and one is a form answer for residential evictions. If you will be filing a residential eviction action after July 1, 2024,
you will need to use these forms.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Rule 1.110 – Paragraph (d) is amended to change the pleading requirements for affirmative defenses. Any pleading that sets out an affirmative defense “must contain a short and plain statement of the ultimate facts supporting the avoidance
or affirmative defense.”<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Rule 1.820 – Paragraph (h) is amended clarify that a party must file a notice of rejection of the arbitration decision and request for trial in the same document and this must be done with 20 days after service of the arbitrator’s decision.
No other action or inaction will be deemed a rejection of the arbitration decision. Only the filing to the rejection and request for trial will suffice as a rejection of the arbitrator’s decision.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Rule 1.923 – This Rule is now form 1.923(a). The form clarifies what actions a defendant must take to challenge an eviction. The Court also added form 1.923(b) for actions involving back rent and damages. This form explains a defendant
must serve written defenses to these claims within 20 days after service.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Rule 1.947 – The Rule is amended with the addition of paragraph (b) to add a new answer form defendants may use to respond to an eviction. The Court also relocated the language instructing the defendants that failure to deposit rent with
the clerk may result in the waiver of any defenses. This instruction was moved from the beginning of the form to the defenses section of the form.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The form is substantial an includes a host of defenses a tenant may select, including failure of the landlord to make repairs, the eviction was filed as a retaliatory action, the eviction was filed in violation of Federal/Florida fair housing
law, among others. The form also sets out in bold that the tenant has a constitutional right to request a trial by jury (if not waived in the lease agreement). You may want to review your client’s lease agreements to make sure right to trial by jury is waived
and that your eviction action does not end up being a jury trial. Also note the new form 1.923(a) notifies tenants that form 1.947(b) exists.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Hopefully, this concludes the amendments to the Rules of Civil Procedure, but if the Court issues another opinion amending additional rules, we will disseminate that opinion on the list serve as we have
done with all other rules amendments.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Have a good evening.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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