Florida Statutes

Fla. Stat. § 916.10 (2025)

Short title.

✓ 2025 Florida Statutes — current through the 2025 Regular Session
Find cases: SyfertCases citing this section FL-LEGleg.state.fl.us JustiaFla. Statutes CornellLII Search CasesGoogle Scholar
916.10 Short title.This chapter may be cited as the “Forensic Client Services Act.”
History.s. 29, ch. 85-167.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases, 2009–2014 · leading case: Dep't of Child. & Fam. Servs. v. Amaya, 10 So. 3d 152 (Fla. 4th DCA 2009).
Dep't of Child. & Fam. Servs. v. Amaya, 10 So. 3d 152 (Fla. 4th DCA 2009). · cites it 2× “§ 916.10, Fla. Stat. *158 (2008). The legislature defined a “forensic client” and set forth specific statutory criteria that must be met to commit a defendant under the Act.”
State v. Miranda, 137 So. 3d 1133 (Fla. 3d DCA 2014). “Chapter 916, Florida Statutes (2011) Chapter 916 of the Florida Statutes— the “Forensic Client Services Act” — addresses the treatment and training of mentally ill, mentally retarded, or autistic criminal felony defendants who have been found incompetent to proceed, §§ 916.10,…”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.

This Florida statute resource is curated by this site's author, a Jacksonville, Florida personal injury and workers' compensation attorney (Florida Bar No. 39104). For legal consultation, call 904-383-7448.