JOAN V. LEE ET AL., APPELLANTS,

v.

GILBERT, SILVERSTEIN & HELLMAN, P. A., APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By

• Sierra v. Sierra, 505 So. 2d 432 (Fla. 1987)
  …So. 2d 43 (Fla. 4th DCA 1975). Indeed, the Third District Court itself has repeatedly emphasized that attorney’s fees may not be fixed without expert testimony and must be based upon competent evidence. See Lee v. Gilbert, Silverstein, and Hellman, 350 So. 2d 1147 (Fla. 3d DCA 1977) (the trial court may not fix attorney’s fees without expert testimony); Donner v. Donner, 281 So. 2d 399, 401 (Fla. 3d DCA) (award of attorney’s fees should be made only for services that are shown to have been reasonably necessar…
• Feldman v. Zena K. Feldman, 390 So. 2d 1231 (Fla. 3d DCA 1980)
  …fees vitiates the award, Alexander Muss & Sons, Inc. v. Nelson, 366 So. 2d 532 (Fla. 3d DCA 1979); Wilson v. Wilson, 362 So. 2d 1030 (Fla. 3d DCA 1978); Segal v. Segal, 353 So. 2d 894 (Fla. 3d DCA 1977); Lee v. Gilbert, Silverstein & Heilman, P. A., 350 So. 2d 1147 (Fla. 3d DCA 1977); (2) the trial court, although well within its authority to order, as it did, the husband to transfer to the wife stock owned by him in American Men’s Wear Clothing Company, Inc., was not empowered to order the transfer of the ass…
• Clark v. Squire, 495 So. 2d 264 (Fla. 3d DCA 1986)
  …heet and without any other testimony to indicate the reasonableness of the time expended or the amount of fee to be awarded. We find [*265] this to be error. Snider v. Snider, 375 So. 2d 591 (Fla. 3d DCA 1979); Lee v. Gilbert, Silverstein & Hellman, 350 So. 2d 1147 (Fla. 3d DCA 1977); Lyle v. Lyle, 167 So. 2d 256 (Fla. 2d DCA 1964). Wherefore the order under review fixing attorney’s fees be and the same is hereby reversed and the cause remanded for further proceedings.…

Authorities Cited

• Lyle v. Lyle, 167 So. 2d 256 (Fla. 2d DCA 1964)
• Ortiz v. Ortiz, 211 So. 2d 243 (Fla. 3d DCA 1968)
• Nivens v. Nivens, 312 So. 2d 201 (Fla. 2d DCA 1975)
• Lamar v. Lamar, 323 So. 2d 43 (Fla. 4th DCA 1975)