PER CURIAM.
This is an appeal by a putative father who had brought an action for a declaration of parental rights and duties as to the subject child. The trial court ordered an award of attorney's fees and costs to the child's mother. We reverse.
The taxing of attorney's fees and costs is done in derogation of the common law; hence, there is no jurisdiction to do so absent an applicable statute or rule, or agreement between the parties. Here, neither specific...
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