Florida Statute 83.61 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

83.61 Disbursement of funds in registry of court; prompt final hearing.—When the tenant has deposited funds into the registry of the court in accordance with the provisions of s. 83.60(2) and the landlord is in actual danger of loss of the premises or other personal hardship resulting from the loss of rental income from the premises, the landlord may apply to the court for disbursement of all or part of the funds or for prompt final hearing. The court shall advance the cause on the calendar. The court, after preliminary hearing, may award all or any portion of the funds on deposit to the landlord or may proceed immediately to a final resolution of the cause.

History.—s. 2, ch. 73-330; s. 2, ch. 74-146.

Cases Citing F.S. 83.61

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·Pomponio v. Claridge of Pompano Condo., 378 So. 2d 774 (Fla. 1979).
Cited 41 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 1979 Fla. LEXIS 4852
...231, and in the Women's Benefit Ass'n case, there were reports of the emergency conditions to document the legislative history and intended effect of the constitutional amendment at issue. 121 Fla. at 765-66, 164 So. at 858 (Buford, J., dissenting). [46] § 83.60(2), Fla. Stat. (1977). [47] § 83.61, Fla....
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Cited (see also)City of Doral, Etc. v. Pedro Cabrera (2026)
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Cited as authorityFlorida Atlantic University Board of Trustees v. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute Foundation, Inc. (2025)
Cited as authorityLouis Robert Adam and Gislaine Adam (2022)
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·Cenvill Investors, Inc. v. Condo. Owners Org. of Century Vill. East, Inc., 556 So. 2d 1197 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1990).
Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1990 Fla. App. LEXIS 878, 1990 WL 11125
...Fatal to the balancing process, said the court, was the absence of a provision authorizing disbursement of funds upon a showing of “actual danger of loss of the premises or other personal hardship resulting from the loss of rental income from the premises,” quoting section 83.61, Florida Statutes (1977), as an example of a provision that would presumably withstand constitutional scrutiny....
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Cases Citing F.S. 83.61

·Pomponio v. Claridge of Pompano Condo., 378 So. 2d 774 (Fla. 1979).

·Cenvill Investors, Inc. v. Condo. Owners Org. of Century Vill. East, Inc., 556 So. 2d 1197 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1990).