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State Courts -
Florida - March 16, 2007
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Bakos v. Bakos, Case No. 2D05-2163,
COURT OF APPEAL OF FLORIDA, SECOND DISTRICT, March 16, 2007, Opinion Filed
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Overview: Because there was competent, substantial evidence to support the trial court's finding, among other things, that the husband gave the wife an ultimatum, "sign or no marriage," upon presenting prenuptial agreement to her within 24 hours of the wedding, the determination that the prenuptial agreement was voidable by the wife was proper.
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Bessey v. Difilippo, CASE NO. 1D06-0774,
COURT OF APPEAL OF FLORIDA, FIRST DISTRICT, March 16, 2007, Opinion Filed
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Overview: Order awarding only partial costs under § 57.041(1), Fla. Stat., to an accident victim, was reversed, and the case was remanded for an award of all taxable costs reasonably and necessarily incurred because the victim was the prevailing party, even though he did not recover all the damages which he sought, in a single count action for negligence.
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Dep't of Revenue ex rel. Marchines v. Marchines, Case No. 2D05-1269,
COURT OF APPEAL OF FLORIDA, SECOND DISTRICT, March 16, 2007, Opinion Filed
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Overview: Section 57.105, Fla. Stat., award of attorney's fees to father who successfully objected to enforcement of foreign child support arrearage judgment was reversed; Department of Revenue properly sought to confirm judgment as valid despite fact § 409.2561(4), Fla. Stat., precluded enforcement of order due to father's receipt of SSI payments.
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Elwell v. State, Case No. 2D05-907,
COURT OF APPEAL OF FLORIDA, SECOND DISTRICT, March 16, 2007, Opinion Filed
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Overview: Because defendant failed to make a contemporaneous objection, and confrontation rights were not implicated, the issue of whether the trial court made insufficient factual findings in ruling that child-hearsay testimony under § 90.803(23), Fla. Stat., was admissible was unpreserved.
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Estate of Jones v. Mariner Health Care of Deland, Inc., Case No. 5D05-1214,
COURT OF APPEAL OF FLORIDA, FIFTH DISTRICT, March 16, 2007, Opinion Filed
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Overview: Final judgment rendered in favor of the operators of a nursing home was reversed; the case was remanded for a new trial on the claims under the Florida Nursing Home Residents' Act, §§ 400.022 and 400.023, Fla. Stat., because the personal representative for a deceased resident did not initiate the already pending lawsuit against the operators.
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Freeman v. BellSouth Telcoms., Inc., CASE NO. 1D06-2653,
COURT OF APPEAL OF FLORIDA, FIRST DISTRICT, March 16, 2007, Opinion Filed
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Overview: Because sufficient evidence existed to permit a jury to decide whether a phone company was on constructive notice of a dangerous condition that resulted in a pedestrian's injuries, a directed verdict in favor of the phone company, as the premises owner, was reversed, and on remand, judgment was to be entered in the pedestrian's favor.
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