STATE OF FLORIDA, DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE BY AND ON BEHALF OF ANGELA T. WEAVER, APPELLANT,
v.
BRIGGS ALLEN, APPELLEE

Fla. 1st DCA | 2000-12-15
No. 1D00-1100
ERVIN, LAWRENCE and PADOVANO, JJ., CONCUR.
772 So. 2d 633 Florida District Court of Appeal, First District (2000)

Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM.

PER CURIAM.

We conclude that the Department of Revenue filed the complaint in good faith in reliance on the paternity affidavit executed by the mother of the child. Accordingly, we must reverse the order awarding attorney’s fees to the putative father under section 57.105, Florida Statutes (1997). See Department of Revenue v. Hannah, 745 So. 2d 1055 (Fla. 3d DCA 1999). We recognize that section 57.105 was revised in 1999 to allow an attorney’s fee if a claim was known to be without support in fact or in law “at any time before trial,” but this case is not governed by the revised version of the statute/

Reversed.

ERVIN, LAWRENCE and PADOVANO, JJ., CONCUR.


Cases With Similar Vibessemantic neighbors from the corpus


Citator

Authorities Cited

Full citator, related cases, and AI research tools

Open in FLexlaw