Brooks v. Degler

Naomi Brooks appeals a final judgment awarding attorneys’ fees to Appellees Thomas Shine and Tino Gonzalez, the attorneys who represented her in an estate administration and probate proceeding beginning in 1989. The issue before us is whether, having moved for and received in 1992 an award of costs and fees in the amount of $337,598.691 out of the estate under section 733.106, Flori*420da Statutes,2 Appellees are nevertheless entitled to an additional 1/3 of Brooks’s share of the estate — $331,088.66—under the parties’ contingency fee agreement, for a total award of $668,687.35. Based on the…