ELBON BURNETT HARDEN, APPELLANT,

v.

SARAH CHRISTINE CARTER HARDEN, APPELLEE

Citator

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• Miller v. First Am. Bank & Tr., 607 So. 2d 483 (Fla. 4th DCA 1992)
  …ion were actually employed and that an “expert” opined that they and the fee awarded were “reasonable.”5 The existence of such evidence does not require that we abandon our own expertise, much less our common sense. As we said in Guthrie v. Guthrie, 357 So. 2d 247, 248 (Fla. 4th DCA 1978) in reversing an award of appellate fees: [W]e have closely considered this record, the briefs from the original appeal, and all the contentions of the appellee in order to find support for the amount of the fee awarded for…
• Travieso v. Travieso, 447 So. 2d 940 (Fla. 3d DCA 1984)
  …ion was whether Mrs. Travieso was a “fit and proper person to have custody of the minor child.” We are not insensitive to the fact that dissolution-related cases are often more [*944] emotionally charged than the usual case, see Guthrie v. Guthrie, 357 So. 2d 247 (Fla. 4th DCA 1978); however, the amount of fees awarded in this case, as in Guthrie, simply cannot be justified. The propagation of exorbitant legal fees such as those in the instant case does a disservice to the litigants sub judice and to the ent…
• Dalia v. Alvarez, 605 So. 2d 1282 (Fla. 3d DCA 1992)
  …omplex about the case that an experienced attorney could not have handled in one-half the time claimed. See R.H. Coody & Assocs., Inc. v. Shelton, 352 So. 2d 852 (Fla.1977); Schreiber v. Palmer, 427 So. 2d 235 (Fla. 3d DCA 1983); Guthrie v. Guthrie, 357 So. 2d 247 (Fla. 4th DCA 1978). Accordingly, we reverse and remand with instructions to award appellate fees in an amount not to exceed $5,000. .We observe that this case was previously before the court solely to indicate our familiarity with the issues and…