{"id":5055,"date":"2012-10-22T12:39:21","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T16:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.cos.ucf.edu\/?p=5055"},"modified":"2019-06-18T16:17:20","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T20:17:20","slug":"ucf-alumni-selected-for-florida-supreme-court-rules-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-alumni-selected-for-florida-supreme-court-rules-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"UCF alumnus selected for Florida Supreme Court rules committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UCF Political Science Alumnus and\u00a0KEL Attorneys\u2019 family law practice leader\u00a0Brandon Tyson\u00a0will serve on the Florida Supreme Court Family Law Rules Committee effective immediately. Tyson, a senior attorney who has been with the\u00a0KEL law firm\u00a0in Orlando for two years, said he sought the appointment because of the importance of these issues to his clients.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-22-at-12.56.40-PM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5183 lazyload\" title=\"Screen shot 2012-10-22 at 12.56.40 PM\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-22-at-12.56.40-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"209\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-22-at-12.56.40-PM.png 209w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-22-at-12.56.40-PM-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-22-at-12.56.40-PM-144x144.png 144w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 209px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 209\/209;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tyson said the subcommittee was created in response to a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court &#8212; Turner v. Rogers, 131 S. Ct. 2507, 180 L. Ed. 2d 452 (2011) [2011 BL 161240] &#8212; holding that while an individual does not have a right to counsel in a civil contempt proceeding, they are provided with \u201csubstitute procedural safeguards.\u201d In this case, a father was incarcerated for not paying child support. Had the proper administrative safeguards been in place, he likely would have been able to demonstrate to the court that he could not afford his payments, thus avoiding incarceration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the current economy, many parents may need to modify their support payments; and this is difficult to do without an attorney,\u201d Tyson said. \u201cThis committee will make sure that the court forms are easy to understand and complete, which is especially important to defendants who either choose to represent themselves or cannot afford an attorney.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about Tyson in his press release, which you can view<a href=\"http:\/\/www.prweb.com\/releases\/2012\/8\/prweb9833250.htm\">\u00a0here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UCF Political Science Alumnus and\u00a0KEL Attorneys\u2019 family law practice leader\u00a0Brandon Tyson\u00a0will serve on the Florida Supreme Court Family Law Rules Committee effective immediately. Tyson, a senior attorney who has been with the\u00a0KEL law firm\u00a0in Orlando for two years, said he sought the appointment because of the importance of these issues to his clients.\u00a0 Tyson said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":5183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[31,20,3,36,13,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni-news","category-psaclassnotes","category-awards","category-class-notes","category-news","category-political-science-departments"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UCF alumnus selected for Florida Supreme Court rules committee - College of Sciences News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-alumni-selected-for-florida-supreme-court-rules-committee\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UCF alumnus selected for Florida Supreme Court rules committee - College of Sciences News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"UCF Political Science Alumnus and\u00a0KEL Attorneys\u2019 family law practice leader\u00a0Brandon Tyson\u00a0will serve on the Florida Supreme Court Family Law Rules Committee effective immediately. 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