ANGEL AQUINO v. LESTER CHOY

DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA
FOURTH DISTRICT
ANGEL AQUINO and KARLA RODRIGUEZ,
Appellants,
v.
LESTER CHOY,
Appellee.
No. 4D22-3309
[July 26, 2023]
Appeal from the County Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit,
Broward County; Betsy Benson, Judge; L.T. Case No. COCE21021495.
Annabel C. Majewski of Wasson & Associates, Chartered, Miami, and
Jeffrey S. Greenhaus of Jeffrey S. Greenhaus, P.A., Miami, for appellants.
Kai E. Jacobs of South Florida Business Law Group, Coral Gables, for
appellee.
PER CURIAM.
Affirmed. See Ortuzar v. Foley, 339 So. 3d 456, 458–59 (Fla. 2d DCA
2022) (“Section 83.48[, Florida Statutes (2022)] does not provide that
attorney’s fees will inure to ‘the prevailing party’; it provides that a party
in whose favor ‘a judgment or decree has been rendered’ may recover fees
from the nonprevailing party . . . [a]nd a voluntary dismissal without
prejudice is not an adjudication of the merits.”) (footnote omitted).
KLINGENSMITH, C.J., FORST and ARTAU, JJ., concur.
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Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.