GEARY v. BUTZEL LONG, P.C.

No. 4D08-1622.

13 So.3d 149 (2009)

Rebecca GEARY, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Janice White, Appellant, v. BUTZEL LONG, P.C., Jennifer Bova, Richard Geary, David Geary, and Peter Geary, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied July 29, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phillip T. Crenshaw of The Crenshaw Law Firm, P.A., and Charles W. Musgrove, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Christine M. Robbins of Butzel Long, P.C., Boca Raton, and Christopher B. Hopkins of Butzel Long, P.C., Palm Beach, for appellee Butzel Long, P.C.

Amy L. Cosentino, West Palm Beach, for appellees Jennifer Bova, David Geary, Peter Geary and Richard Geary.


WARNER, J.

The personal representative of the estate of Janice White appeals a trial court order making her personally responsible for the estate's attorneys' fees incurred in litigation with the estate's prior attorney, as well as ordering her to return fees that she paid to herself and the estate's current attorney. To the extent that the trial court found that the litigation resulting in the fees was frivolous, we affirm...

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