Opinion
No. 4D05-312.
November 30, 2005.
Appeal from the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit Court, Broward County, Lawrence L. Korda, J.
Michelle A. Delancy of Delancyhill, P.A., Miami, for appellant.
Robert W. Sidweber and Denise L. Ventimiglia of Robert W. Sidweber, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellee.
The circuit court found that the Former Wife was in contempt for intentionally and maliciously interfering with the Former Husband's visitation with his daughter. The court found that Former Wife did whatever she could to "stifle" and "complicate" the father-daughter relationship and turned what "should be a sprint into a hurdle race by making" the Former Husband "jump over hoops and sign papers." The court determined that "the Former Husband was denied visitation with his daughter, based on conduct of the Former Wife," who "went out of her way to interfere and deny timesharing" between the Former Husband and his daughter. The court ordered the Former Wife to pay $11,307.50 in attorney's fees and $960.35 toward the Former Husband's costs.
The trial court's findings are amply supported by the record. There is a great disparity between the incomes of the parties. Nonetheless, the award of attorney's fees and costs is proper under Rosen v. Rosen, 696 So.2d 697, 700 (Fla. 1997), and Baker v. Green, 732 So.2d 6, 7 (Fla. 4th DCA 1999). We note that the Former Wife's failure to provide a transcript of the December 2, 2004 attorney's fee hearing has limited appellate review. By a separate order, we grant the Former Husband's motion for appellate attorney's fees.
Affirmed.
GUNTHER, GROSS and HAZOURI, JJ., concur.