Dorothy Chappelle, Calvin Johnson and Evelyn Williams v. South Florida Guardianship Program, Inc.

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• reversing trial court’s entry of judicial default as a sanction where trial court failed to consider Kozel factors or make explicit findings as to each factor before imposing the sanction
• “We have consistently required the record to show an express consideration of the Kozel factors.” (quoting Vista St. Lucie Ass’n v. Dellatore, 165 So.3d 731, 735 (Fla. 4th DCA 2015))
• trial court erred in entering judicial default as a sanction without first considering the six factors delineated in Kozel v. Ostendorf, 629 So. 2d 817 (Fla. 1993), and making explicit findings as to each factor
• “Before a court may dismiss a cause as a sanction, it must first consider the six factors delineated in Kozel v. Ostendorf, 629 So. 2d 817 (Fla. 1993), and set forth explicit findings of fact in the order that imposes the sanction of dismissal.” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).