Maxwell v. Roth

This appeal is from a trial court order awarding to Burnett Roth the sum of $80,-000 as attorney’s fees for services rendered to the Estate of Kathryn B. Rayhill, deceased. The order was entered after an evidentiary hearing held pursuant to our remand in In re Estate of Rayhill, 489 So.2d 87 (Fla. 3d DCA 1986), in which we overturned a $70,000 fee award to Roth and instructed that Roth, although entitled to fees for services which benefited the estate, was not entitled to fees for his representation of the personal representative who had been found to have procured the execution of the will…