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The 2024 Florida Statutes

Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 61
DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE; SUPPORT; TIME-SHARING
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F.S. 61.071
61.071 Alimony pendente lite; suit money.In every proceeding for dissolution of the marriage, a party may claim alimony and suit money in the petition or by motion, and if the petition is well founded, the court shall allow a reasonable sum therefor. If a party in any proceeding for dissolution of marriage claims alimony or suit money in his or her answer or by motion, and the answer or motion is well founded, the court shall allow a reasonable sum therefor.
History.ss. 1, 2, ch. 3581, 1885; RS 1483; GS 1931; RGS 3194; CGL 4986; s. 2, ch. 29737, 1955; s. 16, ch. 67-254; s. 9, ch. 71-241; s. 319, ch. 95-147.
Note.Former s. 65.07.

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Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases Citing Statute 61.071

Total Results: 20

Haslauer v. Haslauer

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2024-03-06T00:00:00-08:00

Snippet: preservation of the property of the parties”); § 61.071, Fla. Stat. (authorizing an allowance for “alimony

AMANDA LYNN DIGIACOMO v. ODEL JORGE MOSQUERA

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2021-06-16T00:53:00-07:00

Snippet: 9 alimony specifically cited to section 61.071, Florida Statutes (2018), 3 and expressly sought… As the Wife’s motion correctly noted, section 61.071 “pertains to alimony in a dissolution proceeding… month during the pendency of the 3 Section 61.071, Florida Statutes (2018), provides for alimony

Jack E. De La Piedra, Husband v. Katherine M. De La Piedra, Wife

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2018-04-25T00:53:00-07:00

Snippet: . 2d 1048, 1051 (Fla. 2d DCA 2007)); see also § 61.071, Fla. Stat. (allowing for reasonable sum alimony

DAVID STEPHEN REIDY v. LIUDMYLA Y. REIDY

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2017-12-19T23:53:00-08:00

Snippet: permitted only in narrow circumstances. Section 61.071, Florida Statutes (2017), pertains to alimony in

De Matos Rebolledo v. Cambero Cordero

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2017-03-22T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 217 So. 3d 147

Snippet: motion seeking temporary support pursuant to section 61.071 of the Florida Statutes, and in August of 2015,

Ard v. Ard

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2017-02-10T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 208 So. 3d 1288

Snippet: Driscoll, 915 So.2d 771, 773 (Fla. 2d DCA 2005); see § 61.071, Fla. Stat. (2016). The alimony award in this case

Trainor v. Trainor

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2016-09-07T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 199 So. 3d 523, 2016 Fla. App. LEXIS 13456, 2016 WL 4681108

Snippet: court shall allow a reasonable sum therefor.” § 61.071, Fla. Stat. (2014). “[T]en> porary relief awards

Lafferty v. Lafferty

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2014-03-28T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 134 So. 3d 1142

Snippet: retroactive alimony in the sum of $29,423. See § 61.071, Fla. Stat. (2010). The court found that Former

Romano v. Olshen

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2014-03-12T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 153 So. 3d 912

Snippet: , 710 So.2d 223 (Fla. 2d DCA 1998); see also §§ 61.071, 61.08, 61.09, Fla. Stat. (2012); Lashkajani v.

Cobo v. Sierralta

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2009-05-27T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 13 So. 3d 493

Snippet: quot; § 61.16, Fla. Stat. (1991); see also id. § 61.071. The leading case, Nichols v. Nichols, 519 So.2d

Efron v. Efron

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2002-04-03T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 813 So. 2d 209

Snippet: ” § 61.08(1), Fla. Stat. (1999); see also id. § 61.071. The former husband’s argument, as we understand

Lowe v. Broward County

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2000-09-20T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 766 So. 2d 1199

Snippet: proceeding for the dissolution of marriage (Fla.Stat. §§ 61.071, 61.08); the right to an elective share in the

Fernandez v. Fernandez

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1998-05-08T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 710 So. 2d 223

Snippet: dissolution. That duty is imposed by statute. See §§ 61.071 and 61.08, Fla. Stat. (1997); see also § 61.09.…for an award of temporary support under sections 61.071 and 61.08 and whether the husband has the ability

Pefaur v. Pefaur

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1993-04-27T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 617 So. 2d 425

Snippet: quot; § 61.16, Fla. Stat. (1991); see also id. § 61.071. The leading case, Nichols v. Nichols, 519 So.2d

State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Smith

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1990-07-12T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 565 So. 2d 751

Snippet: expressed in A. Hyde, The Seat Belt Defense, at 61-71 (1985). [7] The specific problem of experts in

Martin v. Martin

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1990-05-22T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 561 So. 2d 1266

Snippet: temporary attorney's fees awardable under Section 61.071, Florida Statutes (1989). 90-239 District

Nudelman v. Nudelman

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1989-05-09T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 542 So. 2d 486

Snippet: application to temporary fees awardable under section 61.071, Florida Statutes (1987) for representation during

Ugarte v. Ugarte

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1989-02-21T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 538 So. 2d 547

Snippet: DCA), cert. denied, 390 So.2d 827 (Fla.1980); §§ 61.071, 61.13, 61.16, Fla.Stat. (1987). Nos. 88

Littlejohn v. Littlejohn

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1986-10-01T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 495 So. 2d 271

Snippet: not justify the denial of temporary relief. §§ 61.071, 61.16, Fla. Stat. (1985). The provision of the

Beers v. Public Health Trust of Dade County

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1985-05-21T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 468 So. 2d 995

Snippet: in this opinion, is controlled by statute. See § 61.071, Fla. Stat. (1983). The only substantive change