Mercer v. Kanowsky

In this appeal, a trustee challenges an order requiring him to pay one half of the attorney’s fees the trust beneficiary incurred in challenging extraordinary attorney’s fees and costs the trustee had charged the estate. We reverse on the authority of our prior opinion, Wintter & Associates, P.A. v. Kanowsky, 992 So.2d 434 (Fla. 4th DCA 2008).

David Mercer was the trustee of a trust established by Blanche Heisch. The final accounting submitted by Mercer included extraordinary attorney’s fees and costs associated with clearing title to real property that Heisch’s will devised to Mercer…