A recent Palm Beach appellate case on Florida attorneys fees was just released by the Florida appellate court sitting in West Palm Beach, Florida. The 4th District Court of Appeals , which hears appeals of Palm Beach lawsuits issued a legal opinion yesterday regarding Florida attorneys fees.
This trust lawsuit, decided a few days ago, involved three siblings and three trusts created by their parents. A brother and sister sued their brother Kevin, as trustee, to remove him as trustee and for their #trust inheritance.
Experienced Florida trial lawyers, and those whose practice is limited to litigation in Florida, have all come across clients who want a judge removed. What does it take to remove a Florida trial judge? Does it make sense to do that? And is it really in the client’s best interests to seek to disqualify a Florida trial judge?
FLORIDA LAW ON ATTORNEYS FEES Florida litigation can be costly. After all, there’s legal work to be performed by lawyers, trial lawyers, paralegals, and investigators, who handle preparation for hearings strategy, discovery, document gathering, interviewing witnesses , and attendance at trial. Florida follows the “American rule“.
Are you involved in a Florida probate, estate administration or trust dispute? If so, here are some guidelines for those who are new to probate litigation or probate administration. First, understand that our entire judicial system, our civil procedure, our system, or mechanism for resolving disputes peacefully and fairly, is contained in a courtroom. Second, as a society, we all agree, and are in fact better off for it, that when we disagree, we don’t take matters into our own hands.