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Can Your Lawyer be Forced to Testify as a Witness in Your Florida Probate Case?

There is a recent Fourth District Court of Appeal opinion that was just handed down on March 6th 2019 about lawyer as witness. Generally, lawyers are not witnesses in a Florida lawsuit, they’re advocates, they’re actually prohibited from doing that.

And one side can’t get the other side’s communications with their lawyer or what the lawyer tells other people, that’s typically privilege.

If you want to read more about this case, read the Bellezza case. This is a March 6th opinion from Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal. You can read that opinion for free by going to the Fourth District Court of Appeal website, clicking on Opinions and scrolling down to the date and looking up the Bellezza case.