KLEIN-BROWN v. BROWN

No. 4D07-1998.

984 So.2d 669 (2008)

Jacquelyn KLEIN-BROWN, Appellant, v. Bruce BROWN, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

June 25, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carmen A. Hellman and Leon N. Patricios of Zumpano Patricios & Winker, P.A., Coral Gables, for appellant.

No brief filed for appellee, Bruce Brown.

Cynthia L. Greene of the Law Offices of Greene, Smith & Associates, P.A., Miami, and Law Offices of Leinoff & Lemos, P.A., South Miami, for appellee, Leinoff & Lemos, P.A.


DAMOORGIAN, J.

This is an appeal of an order denying Ms. Klein-Brown's motion to set aside an order compelling arbitration over a fee dispute with her attorney in a dissolution of marriage action. We reverse because legal counsel should have pursued his fee claim in a separate lawsuit and served appellant with process.

The proceeding in the trial court began as a dissolution of marriage action between the appellant, Jacquelyn Klein-Brown, and her husband,...

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