Legal Opinion
Westaway v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided September 1, 2017No. Case Na 2D16-3683PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROTHSTEIN-YOUAKIM, Judge.
Debra Westaway appeals the trial court’s Final Judgment of Attorneys’ Fees and Costs in a foreclosure action brought against her by Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Westaway argues that the trial court abused its discretion in (1) sua sponte reducing her attorneys’ reasonable hourly rate, (2) reducing the paralegal time billed by her attorneys, and (3) refusing to award a contingency multiplier. After the benefit of oral argument, we agree that the court abused its discretion in reducing her attorneys’ reasonable hourly rate, and we reverse and remand for the trial court to…
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