GARY LEMAN, ET AL.
v.
ORIT TAL

Fla. 3d DCA | 2025-12-31
No. 2024-2238
Gonzalez-Whyte, J., Fernandez, J., Miller, J., Gooden, J.
2025 FL 12607 Florida District Court of Appeal, Third District (2025)

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Holding

A party must raise a challenge to the trial court's failure to make required findings of fact in a motion for rehearing to preserve the issue for appeal.


Headnotes

[1] A challenge to the trial court's failure to make required findings of fact must be raised in a motion for rehearing to be preserved for appellate review.

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Key Quotes

“To preserve for appeal a challenge to the failure of the trial court to make required findings of fact in the final judgment, a party must raise that issue in a motion for rehearing under this rule.”

Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.530(a), cited by the court to establish the preservation requirement

Facts & Procedural History

Gary Leman and others appealed a judgment from Miami-Dade County Court. The appellants challenged the trial court's findings of fact.…

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Opinion of the Court
Gooden

Third District Court of Appeal State of Florida Opinion filed December 31, 2025. Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing. ________________ No. 3D24-2238 Lower Tribunal No. 22-31850-SP-05 ________________ Gary Leman, et al., Appellants, vs. Orit Tal, Appellee. An Appeal from the County Court for Miami-Dade County, Diana Gonzalez-Whyte, Judge. Solnick Law P.A., and Peter J. Solnick, for appellants. The Scharf Appellate Group, and Erik W. Scharf, for appellee. Before FERNANDEZ, MILLER and GOODEN, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

Affirmed. See Fla. R. Civ. P. 1.530(a) (“To preserve for appeal a challenge to the failure of the trial court to make required findings of fact in

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the final judgment, a party must raise that issue in a motion for rehearing under this rule.”); Schneider v. Tirikian, 397 So. 3d 1070, 1074 (Fla. 3d DCA 2024) (“The key to preservation is whether the trial court had an opportunity to correct the purported error.”); Forte v. All Cnty. Towing Inc., 336 So. 3d 316, 319 (Fla. 4th DCA 2022) (“An award of attorney’s fees will be upheld on appeal so long as it is supported by competent, substantial evidence.”).


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