Aquino v. Choy

Full title: ANGEL AQUINO and KARLA RODRIGUEZ, Appellants, v. LESTER CHOY, Appellee.

Court: Florida Court of Appeals, Fourth District

Date published: Jul 26, 2023

No. 4D22-3309 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. Jul. 26, 2023)

Opinion

4D22-3309

07-26-2023

ANGEL AQUINO and KARLA RODRIGUEZ, Appellants, v. LESTER CHOY, Appellee.

Annabel C. Majewski of Wasson &Associates, Chartered, Miami, and Jeffrey S. Greenhaus of Jeffrey S. Greenhaus, P.A., Miami, for appellants. Kai E. Jacobs of South Florida Business Law Group, Coral Gables, for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.

Appeal from the County Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County; Betsy Benson, Judge; L.T. Case No. COCE21021495.

Annabel C. Majewski of Wasson &Associates, Chartered, Miami, and Jeffrey S. Greenhaus of Jeffrey S. Greenhaus, P.A., Miami, for appellants.

Kai E. Jacobs of South Florida Business Law Group, Coral Gables, for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

Affirmed. See Ortuzar v. Foley, 339 So.3d 456, 458-59 (Fla. 2d DCA 2022) ("Section 83.48[, Florida Statutes (2022)] does not provide that attorney's fees will inure to 'the prevailing party'; it provides that a party in whose favor 'a judgment or decree has been rendered' may recover fees from the nonprevailing party . . . [a]nd a voluntary dismissal without prejudice is not an adjudication of the merits.") (footnote omitted).

KLINGENSMITH, C.J, FORST and ARTAU, JJ, concur