First of America Bank-Central v. Sitomer

POLEN, Judge.

In these consolidated appeals First of America Bank-Central, trustee of a trust established by Harold C. Good, appeals two orders requiring First of America to pay $66,645 in attorneys fees to Herb & Medniek, the law firm representing Alvin Sitomer, Esquire, the attorney/personal representative of Mr. Good’s Estate, in Sitomer’s litigation to recover an attorney’s fee for himself. We reverse the orders.

The parties were previously before this court in Sitomer v. First of America Bank-Central, 667 So.2d 456 (Fla. 4th DCA 1996) (Sitomer I), where we affirmed an award of $60,000 to…