NOVELLA NORA TUCKER, APPELLANT,

v.

STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By

• Mandy v. Williams, 492 So. 2d 759 (Fla. 4th DCA 1986)
  …26 (Fla. 4th DCA 1984); Johns v. Johns, 423 So. 2d 443 (Fla. 4th DCA 1982). But where the parties’ financial positions are comparable, an award of attorney’s fees is not appropriate. Cummings v. Cummings, 330 So. 2d 134 (Fla. 1976); Wenz v. Codings, 417 So. 2d 318 (Fla. 5th DCA 1982). Also, in deter [*762] mining whether to award attorney’s fees the trial court may consider the parties’ respective assets as well as income. Hicks v. Hicks, 313 So. 2d 64 (Fla. 4th DCA 1975). We conclude that the wife has not d…
• Brenton H. Horton v. Horton, 433 So. 2d 1386 (Fla. 5th DCA 1983)
  …t counsel, neither should be required to pay the attorney’s fees for the other. Canakaris v. Canakaris, 382 So. 2d 1197 (Fla.1980); Peak v. Peak, 411 So. 2d 325 (Fla. 5th DCA 1982); Poppe v. Poppe, 412 So. 2d 38 (Fla. 3d DCA 1982); Wenz v. Collings, 417 So. 2d 318 (Fla. 5th DCA 1982). The judgment is affirmed in all respects except that portion which takes from the husband and gives to the wife and her attorney $4,500.00. That portion is reversed. AFFIRMED in part; REVERSED in part. ORFINGER, C.J., concurs…
• McGEE-Manis v. Manis, 657 So. 2d 78 (Fla. 5th DCA 1995)
  …verse in part. We conclude that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in reducing the former husband’s child support obligation or in ordering the former husband to contribute towards the former wife’s attorney’s fees. See Wenz v. Collings, 417 So. 2d 318 (Fla. 5th DCA 1982); cf. Deatherage v. Deatherage, 395 So. 2d 1169 (Fla. 5th DCA), dismissed, 402 So. 2d 609 (Fla.1981). As the former wife concedes, however, the trial court erred when it failed to make this reduction retroactive to the date the pe…

Authorities Cited

• Green v. State, 414 So. 2d 1171 (Fla. 5th DCA 1982)