FRYMER v. BRETTSCHNEIDER

No. 97-1309.

710 So.2d 10 (1998)

Carol FRYMER and Jessica Frymer and Jeffery Frymer, minors by their next of friend and father, Jack Frymer, Appellants, v. Mervyn BRETTSCHNEIDER, Sheila Shechtman and Nancy Tuchman, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied March 27, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven Garellek of the Law Offices of Steven Garellek, P.A., Boca Raton, for appellants.

Edward Downey of Downey & Downey, P.A., Palm Beach, for appellee Sheila Shechtman.


STEVENSON, Judge.

This is an appeal from a cost judgment entered in favor of the appellee, Sheila Shechtman, requiring the trustee to pay, from trust assets, attorney's fees and costs incurred by Shechtman, a beneficiary, in defending against a suit initiated by the appellants. Because we find that the statute relied upon by the trial court does not authorize the award of attorney's fees and costs, we reverse.

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