District Court of Appeal of Florida

In a dispute over recovery of excess funds deposited in the registry of a court in a mortgage foreclosure case, an assessment of fees and a fine against a company in the business of contacting former property owners who may be entitled to such funds and a lawyer for bringing the claim is reversed where the trial court erred in finding that Florida law was so well established as to warrant fees or a fine under applicable law.

Appellate Information

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

Judges

• KLEIN, J.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stanley Jay Bartel of the Law Offices of Stanley Jay Bartel, The Villages, for appellant Global Heir and Asset Locators., Peter S. Heller of the Law Offices of Peter S. Heller, P.A., Miami, for appellant Terrence E. Rosenberg.


• For Appellees:
  
• Cary A. Lubetsky and Joseph J. Huss of Krinzman, Huss & Lubetsky, Miami, for appellee.