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Florida District Courts of Appeal, 2000

Cruse v. Cruse

Cruse v. Cruse
Florida District Courts of Appeal · Decided March 6, 2000 · Barfield, Browning, Lawrence
752 So. 2d 121; 2000 Fla. App. LEXIS 2188; 2000 WL 242914 (Southern Reporter, Second Series)

Cruse v. Cruse

Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM.

The trial judge erred in awarding fees when the former wife had neither requested fees in a pleading nor given the former husband notice that fees would be at issue. Bull v. Bull, 584 So.2d 171 (Fla. 1st DCA 1991). Accordingly, that portion of the judgment ordering the former husband to pay $500 of the former wife’s attorney’s fees is reversed. In all other respects, the judgment on appeal is affirmed.

AFFIRMED in part; REVERSED in part.

BARFIELD, C.J., LAWRENCE and BROWNING, JJ., CONCUR.

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