District Court of Appeal of Florida

Order prohibiting trustees from paying personal legal fees out of trust monies and ordering them to pay restitution is affirmed where court approval is required before a trustee can use trust money to pay personal attorney's fees when the trustee's individual interests conflict with trustee duties.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/31/2006
• Published 05/31/2006

Judges

• CORTIÑAS, Judge., Before WELLS, CORTIÑAS, and ROTHENBERG, JJ.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Williams, Parker, Harrison, Dietz & Getzen and M. Lewis Hall, III and David A. Wallace, Sarasota;  Lisa B. Lehner, for appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kluger, Peretz, Kaplan & Berlin and Bruce A. Katzen, Michael L. Cotzen, Miami, and Leslie P. Sharpe;  Michael J. Schlesinger, Miami, for appellees.