Smallwood v. Perez

In my opinion, and as we originally ruled, the order below should be affirmed. As the majority seems to agree, the trial judge acted well within his authority and discretion in assessing the fees required by this domestic litigation’s being “over litigated to ... absurdity,” Donoff v. Donoff, 691 So.2d 1091, 1093 (Fla. 4th DCA 1997), against the person who, even after explicit warning, was directly responsible for that fact, the husband’s attorney. See Bitter-man v. Bitterman, 714 So.2d 356, (Fla.1998); McAliley v. McAliley, 704 So.2d 611 (Fla. 4th DCA 1997); Goldfarb v. Daitch, 696 So.2d…