Johnson v. Amritt

We review the trial court’s order “approving and authorizing the payment of attorney’s fees” to the former emergency temporary guardian’s counsel. After a thorough review of the record, we hold that the trial court did not make the requisite findings for an award of attorney’s fees. See Fla. Patient’s Comp. Fund v. Rowe, 472 So.2d 1145, 1151-52 (Fla.1985). “An order awarding attorneys’ fees is ‘fundamentally erroneous on its face’ when the trial court fails ‘to make specific findings as to the hourly rate, the number of hours reasonably expended, and the appropriateness of reduction or…