MICHAEL AMOS, APPELLANT,

v.

STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By

• Pedrilanda Dorvilien v. Verty (Fla. 4th DCA 2022)
  …rt payments. See Clements v. Clements, 254 So. 3d 635, 636 (Fla. 5th DCA 2018). Even if the trial court made a minor error in its calculations, it would not have significantly altered the final child support awards. See Wilkerson v. Wilkerson, 717 So. 2d 1118, 1119 (Fla. 1st DCA 1998) (affirming child support obligation that exceeded support guidelines by a “negligible amount . . . does not warrant remand for justification, recalculation or other proceedings”); cf. Gillette v. Gillette, 226 So. 3d 958…
• Haywald v. Fougere, 164 So. 3d 786 (Fla. 1st DCA 2015)
  …s, her income will fall further below that of the former husband in the future. Child support is not “income” to the mom for purposes of paying attorney’s fees— she has an obligation to spend it solely on the kids. See, e.g., Wilkerson v. Wilkerson, 717 So. 2d 1118, 1119 (Fla. 1st DCA 1998) (reversing award of attorney’s fees that would force wife “to pay her attorneys from the support award”). Under these circumstances, the trial court’s conclusion that the former husband “has the better ability to pay” a por…
• Liberty Mut. Ins. Co. v. PAN AM Diagnostic Servs., Inc., 347 So. 3d 7 (Fla. 4th DCA 2022)
  …4 (Fla. 1st DCA 1983) (finding a loss of five days of supplemental workers comp benefits was “de minimis”); L.H. v. State, 803 So. 2d 862, 863 n.1 (Fla. 4th DCA 2002) (stating $4.00 discrepancy in restitution was de minimis); Wilkerson v. Wilkerson, 717 So. 2d 1118, 1119 (Fla. 1st DCA 1998) (affirming child support obligation that exceeded support guidelines by $1.50, finding that the “negligible amount . . . does not warrant remand for justification, recalculation or other proceedings”). Florida courts have…

Authorities Cited

• Gissendanner v. State, 373 So. 2d 898 (Fla. 1979)
• Robinson v. State, 373 So. 2d 898 (Fla. 1979)