THOMAS Y. KANI vs RAYAUNA FEASTER

• Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida
• Decided: October 6, 2023
• Docket: 23-0527
• Status: Published

Opinion

FIFTH DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL STATE OF FLORIDA _____________________________

Case No. 5D23-527 LT Case No. 2021-30846-FMCI _____________________________

THOMAS Y. KANI,

Appellant,

v.

RAYAUNA FEASTER,

Appellee. _____________________________

On appeal from the Circuit Court for Volusia County. Stasia Warren, Judge.

Christopher V. Butler, of Butler Legal, P.A., Sanford, for Appellant.

No Appearance for Appellee.

October 6, 2023

PER CURIAM.

Thomas Y. Kani appeals the trial court’s final judgment of paternity rendered after trial. He raises two grounds for reversal. Kani asserts that under Perlow v. Berg-Perlow, 875 So. 2d 383 (Fla. 2004), and its progeny, the trial court erred in adopting, verbatim, Appellee’s proposed final judgment. The record, however, reflects that the final judgment entered by the trial court included its own changes, additions, and deletions to Appellee’s proposed final judgment and was entered some ten days after Kani had received the proposed judgment and thus had the ability to notify the trial court of any objections. Accordingly, we affirm on this issue. 1

On Kani’s remaining ground for relief, we affirm on the authority of Hester v. Hester, 705 So. 2d 721, 721 (Fla. 5th DCA 1998) (“In the absence of a record of the final hearing on November 20, 1996, there is no basis to reverse the appealed judgment on evidentiary grounds. The child support guidelines worksheet attached to the judgment has sufficient information to allow review of the guidelines calculation, and we find no error.”).

AFFIRMED.

LAMBERT, HARRIS, and PRATT, JJ., concur.

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Not final until disposition of any timely and authorized motion under Fla. R. App. P. 9.330 or 9.331. _____________________________

1 Kani had also submitted to the trial court his own proposed

final judgment for consideration.