Perez v. Migliore

At the trial of the appellant/mother’s petition for modification, the court started the hearing before her counsel, who was late, had arrived. When her counsel showed up he handed the judge a motion to withdraw for lack of cooperation from the mother and, over the mother’s objection, the court granted the motion. Before her counsel had arrived the court denied the mother’s motion for continuance. After allowing counsel to withdraw the court proceeded with the modification hearing and denied modification.

In Garden v. Garden, 834 So.2d 190, 193 (Fla. 2d DCA 2002), the court reversed where…