CopyCited 1 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal
...Following the hearing, the trial judge awarded the $20,000.00 fee to the special master, to be paid by Charles N. Donner. This appeal ensued. It is urged that the chancellor erred in exercising his discretion in the amount of the fee awarded. Today, in Florida, this is clearly a discretionary matter with a chancellor. See: Section 69.051, Florida Statutes (1975)....
...Therefore, the order under review be and the same is hereby modified to the extent that the master's fee is reduced to $10,000.00. Affirmed as modified. NOTES [1] Section 62.07, Florida Statutes (1953) was repealed by Laws of Florida, 1967, Ch. 67-254, § 49. Section 62.071, Florida Statutes (1953) was amended and renumbered Section 69.051 by Laws of Florida, 1967, Ch....
CopyPublished | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2003 WL 355421
...gress of the discovery efforts in the case. No evidence was submitted at the hearing and provided to appellant to document the claim for special master costs and fees before the court. Appellant did not waive the right to a full evidentiary hearing. Section 69.051, Florida Statutes (2002), provides that masters shall be allowed such compensation for any services the court deems reasonable....
CopyPublished | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 2009 Fla. App. LEXIS 19078, 2009 WL 4639638
...magistrate." Subsection
56.29(2), Florida Statutes (2006), allows the examination to be conducted by the court, a general magistrate, or a special magistrate. Under subsection
56.29(7), a special magistrate "shall be paid the fees provided by law." Section
69.051, Florida Statutes (2006), provides that a special magistrate "appointed by the court shall be allowed such compensation for any services as the court deems reasonable...." [2] Section
56.29(11) provides: "Costs for proceedings suppleme...
CopyPublished | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 2000 Fla. App. LEXIS 9902, 2000 WL 1062048
...anded greater skill. See Provus v. Provus,
44 So.2d 656, 657 (Fla.1950); Gulf-stream Park Racing Ass’n, Inc. v. Clark,
42 So.2d 279 (Fla.1949); Rainey v. Rainey,
38 So.2d 60 (Fla.1948); Cohn v. Cohn,
160 Fla. 619 ,
36 So.2d 199 (1948). At present, section
69.051 gives the trial court discretion to award such fees....
...Donner,
346 So.2d 1069 (Fla. 3d DCA 1977). Thus, we must review this award on an abuse of discretion standard. 2 Donner . We agree with Donner that a special master’s fee should not be based on the same criteria 3 as those used in fixing an attorney’s fee award. Section
69.051 permits compensation for any service the trial court deems reasonable, giving the court absolute discretion in masters fees awards....
...ng to forgo fees from other sources of employment, and from accepting additional clients. Since we find no abuse of discretion in the trial court’s award under the facts of this case, the cause is hereby AFFIRMED. DAUKSCH and COBB, JJ„ concur. . 69.051 provides: Masters in chancery shall be allowed such compensation for any services as the court deems reasonable including time consumed in legal research required in preparing and summarizing their findings of fact and law....
.... See generally, Canakaris v. Canakaris,
382 So.2d 1197 (Fla.1980); Clough v. Christopher,
711 So.2d 610 (Fla. 5th DCA 1998). .We distinguish, however, the "same criteria” language from "comparable fee” language, as not being synonymous. Under section
69.051, there is nothing which would preclude a special master's fee from being comparable to that of a practicing attorney, depending on the circumstances of the controversy, the extent of the master’s assignment, and the master’s expertise....
