ANGEL AQUINO v. LESTER CHOY

• Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida
• Decided: July 26, 2023
• Docket: 22-3309
• Status: Published

Opinion

DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA FOURTH DISTRICT

ANGEL AQUINO and KARLA RODRIGUEZ, Appellants,

v.

LESTER CHOY, Appellee.

No. 4D22-3309

[July 26, 2023]

Appeal from the County Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County; Betsy Benson, Judge; L.T. Case No. COCE21021495.

Annabel C. Majewski of Wasson & Associates, Chartered, Miami, and Jeffrey S. Greenhaus of Jeffrey S. Greenhaus, P.A., Miami, for appellants.

Kai E. Jacobs of South Florida Business Law Group, Coral Gables, for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

Affirmed. See Ortuzar v. Foley, 339 So. 3d 456, 458–59 (Fla. 2d DCA 2022) (“Section 83.48[, Florida Statutes (2022)] does not provide that attorney’s fees will inure to ‘the prevailing party’; it provides that a party in whose favor ‘a judgment or decree has been rendered’ may recover fees from the nonprevailing party . . . [a]nd a voluntary dismissal without prejudice is not an adjudication of the merits.”) (footnote omitted).

KLINGENSMITH, C.J., FORST and ARTAU, JJ., concur.

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Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.