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Last Post 14 Oct 2025 10:55 AM by  David Tascoe
R-23-0008 Petition to Amend Rules 91(h) and 92(c) ARFLP
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Susan Pickard
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04 Jan 2023 06:02 PM
    Susan Pickard, FCIC Staff on behalf of
    1501 W. Washington St., Ste. 410
    Phoenix, AZ 85007

    Judge Bruce R. Cohen
    Family Department Presiding Judge
    Maricopa County Superior Court
    125 West Washington, Suite 101
    Phoenix, Arizona 85003

    In present form, these rules require that upon filing for certain post-decree proceedings, the court must issue an Order to Appear that the petitioning party would then have to serve upon the responding party along with all of the other filed documents. Under this new proposal, the superior court in each County would have the option of issuing an Order to Appear or notice of hearing either before or after service of process is effectuated.

    Filed: January 4, 2023

    Would amend Rules 91(h) and 92(c) of the Rules of Family Law Procedure to give a family law court the option of issuing an order to appear or a notice of hearing either before or after service of process.

    Comments must be submitted no later than Monday, May 1, 2023.
    Any reply by a petitioner must be submitted no later than Thursday, June 1, 2023.

    Comments due no later than October 1, 2025, and any reply due no later than October 15, 2025.
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    Susan Pickard
    New Member
    Posts: New Member

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    03 Mar 2023 11:55 AM
    Susan Pickard [email protected] -602.452.3252
    on behalf of
    Family Court Improvement Committee
    Judge Paul McMurdie, Chair

    The Family Court Improvement Committee met on March 2, 2023. A motion encouraging further research and stakeholder discussion regarding the amendments proposed to Rules 91(n) and 92(c) passed unanimously.
    Yolanda Fox
    Basic Member
    Posts:294 Basic Member

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    02 Dec 2024 10:01 AM
    Greg Sakall
    Judge, Division 23
    Pima County Superior Court
    110 W Congress
    Tucson, AZ 85701
    Telephone: (520) 724-8301
    [email protected]

    Motion to request that the Court continue this matter to its August 2025 Rules Agenda.
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    David Tascoe
    New Member
    Posts:20 New Member

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    19 May 2025 12:58 PM
    David Tascoe, COFC Staff on behalf of:

    Judge Greg Sakall, Chair
    Committee on Family Court
    Associate Presiding Judge
    Pima County Superior Court
    110 West Congress Street
    Tucson, AZ 85701
    [email protected]

    By Referral Letter, this Court referred the matter to the Committee on Family Court (“COFC”), f.k.a. Family Court Improvement Committee, for further research and stakeholder discussion. COFC has reviewed the Petition and obtained stakeholder input. At its May 15, 2025, meeting, the COFC, voted unanimously to support an alternative proposal set forth in the attached comment.
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    Yolanda Fox
    Basic Member
    Posts:294 Basic Member

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    01 Oct 2025 06:35 PM
    Comment of the State Bar of Arizona
    Richard L. Palmatier, Jr., Bar No. 006543
    Assistant General Counsel
    State Bar of Arizona
    4201 N. 24th Street, Suite 100
    Phoenix, AZ 85016-6288
    (602) 340-7236
    [email protected]
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    David Tascoe
    New Member
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    14 Oct 2025 10:55 AM
    David Tascoe, COFC Staff on behalf of:

    Judge Greg Sakall, Chair
    Committee on Family Court
    Associate Presiding Judge
    Pima County Superior Court
    110 West Congress Street
    Tucson, AZ 85701
    [email protected]

    Consistent with this Court’s August 26, 2025, Order Circulating Alternative Proposal for Public Comment, the Committee on Family Court (“COFC”) files this Reply and requests that the Court adopt COFC’s alternative proposal.
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