Financial & Investment Planning, Inc. v. Lieberman

I must respectfully dissent. I would grant the appellant Financial & Investment Planning, Inc.’s [FIP] motion for rehearing, reverse the order denying FIP’s motion for attorney’s fees, and remand the cause to the trial court with directions to award FIP a reasonable attorney’s fee in this case.

The basic facts of this case are set forth in Financial & Investment Planning, Inc. v. Lieberman, 452 So.2d 1022 (Fla. 3d DCA 1984), at a prior appearance of this same case before this court. In that case, we reversed an order of garnishment which had been entered by the trial court against the…