673 So. 2d 954 - Widder v. Widder’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 2017
4 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Revitz v. Terrell · 654 So. 2d 154 - Giovanelli v. Giovanelli · 451 So. 2d 1051 - Davidge v. Davidge
Most-quoted passages
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“At bar, the trial court erred as it did not appropriately consider the relative financial circumstances of the parties in assessing whether to award fees to the former wife. Rather, the trial court used a method of apportioning the attorney’s fees in accordance with the same percentages of child support they were re quired to pay as per the final judgment and section 61.30, Florida Statutes (1991).... While we are sure that the trial court was well meaning in trying to mold a solution ... this was still not the method envisioned by the legislature for awarding fees in post-dissolution proceedings under section 61.16, even when the issues involve the parties’ children.... [T]he fee determination must still be made by considering the relative financial circumstances of the parties as per section 61.16 and the cases interpreting it, and using the appropriate inquiry of whether one party has the need for such fees and the other party has the ability to pay them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The court may from time to time, after considering the financial resources of both parties, order a party to pay a reasonable amount for attorney’s fees, suit money, and the cost to the other party of maintaining or defending any proceeding under this chapter....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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