Third District Court of Appeal
State of Florida
Opinion filed October 19, 2022.
Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.
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No. 3D22-0466
Lower Tribunal No. 16-13940
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Liane Lindo,
Appellant,
vs.
Richard A. Lindo,
Appellee.
An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Christina
Marie DiRaimondo, Judge.
Cruz Legal, P.A., and Marisol Cruz, for appellant.
Filler Rodriguez, LLP, and Catherine M. Rodriguez, for appellee.
Before LINDSEY, GORDO and BOKOR, JJ.
PER CURIAM.
Affirmed. See Labor Ready Se. Inc. v. Australian Warehouses Condo.
Ass'n,
962 So. 2d 1053, 1056 (Fla. 4th DCA 2007) (explaining that where
the case had been pending for more than four years, there was “no ambush
or violation of the procedural safeguards that [Florida] Rule [of Civil
Procedure] 1.440 was designed to protect”); see also Bryan v. Bryan,
930
So. 2d 693, 696 (Fla. 3d DCA 2006) (noting that there is no bright-line rule
against adoption of a proposed order and differentiating Perlow v. Berg-
Perlow,
875 So. 2d 383 (Fla. 2004) where the record reflects trial judge
exercised independent judgment based on the trial court’s active
participation during the final hearing and permitted both parties to submit
proposed orders before entering the order at issue).
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