MCDONOUGH v. MURGUIDO (2022)

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Dr. James Eric MCDONOUGH, Appellant, v. Alejandro MURGUIDO, Appellee.

No. 3D21-592

Decided: January 19, 2022

Before HENDON, GORDO and BOKOR, JJ.

Dr. James Eric McDonough, in proper person. Weiss Serota Helfman Cole & Bierman, P.L., and Eric L. Stettin (Fort Lauderdale), for appellee.

Affirmed. Albanese Popkin Hughes Cove, Inc. v. Scharlin, 141 So. 3d 743, 745 (Fla. 3d DCA 2014) (“A trial court's award of costs is reviewed by appellate courts for an abuse of discretion.”); In re Amends. to Unif. Guidelines for Tax'n of Costs, 915 So. 2d 612, 616 (Fla. 2005) (stating that the test for awarding costs is whether “all requested costs were reasonably necessary either to defend or prosecute the case at the time the action precipitating the cost was taken.”); Markowski v. N. Broward Hosp. Dist., 894 So. 2d 1077, 1077 (Fla. 4th DCA 2005) (allowing the “taxation of costs for depositions ‘used to successfully support a Motion for Summary Judgment’ ” pursuant to the Statewide Uniform Guidelines for Taxation of Costs (quoting Reeser v. Boats Unlimited, Inc., 432 So. 2d 1346, 1349 n. 2 (Fla. 4th DCA 1983))).

PER CURIAM.

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