Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services v. Dubay

COBB, Judge.

The issue in this case is whether the trial court erred in determining that the state attorney’s office was liable to the appellee, Jerome Dubay, for attorney’s fees pursuant to section 57.105, Florida Statutes (1985).

Judith Marie Lilly filed a petition in Michigan to initiate support proceedings under the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act (URESA) against Dubay on July 29, 1981, alleging that Dubay owed Lilly money for past child support. The petition was transferred to the state attorney’s office for the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit, where Dubay resided. The state…