Third District Court of Appeal
State of Florida
Opinion filed February 20, 2019.
Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.
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No. 3D18-1637
Lower Tribunal No. 08-409K
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Peter Obermeyer,
Appellant,
vs.
Bank of New York, etc.,
Appellee.
An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Monroe County, James M. Barton, II,
Senior Judge.
Gregg Horowitz (Sarasota), for appellant.
DeLuca Law Group, PLLC, and Shawn Taylor (Fort Lauderdale), for
appellee.
Before FERNANDEZ, LOGUE, and SCALES, JJ.
PER CURIAM.
Peter Obermeyer, who successfully obtained the dismissal of the foreclosure
action filed against him by the Bank of New York, appeals the trial court’s final
judgment denying attorney’s fees and costs for litigating the amount of attorney’s
fees. Based on our longstanding precedent, we affirm. N. Dade Church of God, Inc.
v. JM Statewide, Inc., 851 So. 2d 194, 196 (Fla. 3d DCA 2003) (“It is settled that in
litigating over attorney’s fees, a litigant may claim fees where entitlement is the
issue, but may not claim attorney’s fees incurred in litigating the amount of
attorney’s fees.”). See generally State Farm Fire & Cas. Co. v. Palma, 629 So. 2d
830, 833 (Fla. 1993) (“fees may be awarded for litigating the issue of entitlement to
attorney’s fees but not the amount of attorney’s fees”). But see Waverly at Las Olas
Condo. Ass’n, Inc. v. Waverly Las Olas, LLC, 88 So. 3d 386, 389 (Fla. 4th DCA
2012) (finding certain contractual language “broad enough to encompass fees
incurred in litigating the amount of fees”).
Affirmed.
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