Third District Court of Appeal
State of Florida
Opinion filed May 27, 2015.
Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.
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No. 3D15-340
Lower Tribunal No. 99-16458
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Ramon Estevez,
Petitioner,
vs.
Ileana Estevez, etc.,
Repondent.
A Petition for Writ of Certiorari from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade
County, David C. Miller, Judge.
Rice Pugatch Robinson & Schiller, P.A., and Richard B. Storfer and
Christian Savio (Fort Lauderdale), for petitioner.
Gary E. Lehman, P.A., and Broad and Cassel; Beverly A. Pohl, P.A., and
Barbara Viota-Sawisch and Elizabeth P. Perez (Fort Lauderdale), for respondent.
Before SUAREZ, EMAS and SCALES, JJ.
PER CURIAM
Petitioner Ramon Estevez (Husband) seeks this Court’s certiorari review of
an order of the trial court denying Huband’s Motion for Protective Order directed
toward discovery propounded on Husband by Respondent Ileana Estevez n/k/a
Ileana Perez (Wife).
The trial court entered judgment in favor of the Wife in the amount of
$868,867, representing payments Husband owed to Wife pursuant to their
dissolution of marriage in 2000. After the trial court entered its judgment, Wife
served a Notice of Taking Deposition Duces Tecum in Aid of Execution, from
which Husband sought protection.
In his petition for writ of certiorari, Husband alleges that Wife’s proposed
discovery is onerous, burdensome, harassing, and irrelevant. While we might
entertain some doubt about so broad a scope of discovery, we cannot say the trial
court departed from the essential requirements of law, causing irreparable injury,
so as to warrant certiorari relief. Bd. of Trs. of Internal Improvement Trust Fund v.
Am. Educ. Enters., LLC, 99 So. 3d 450, 456-57 (Fla. 2012).
Petition denied.
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