Duncan-Osiyemi v. Osiyemi

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• reversing a denial of the wife’s request for attorneys’ fees where there existed a significant income disparity and she would have to deplete her equitable distribution in order to pay the fees
• “revers[ing] the denial of an additional award of attorney’s fees” “where the husband clearly had the financial ability to contribute to the wife’s fees and the wife’s equitable distribution award would be inequitably diminished should she not receive an award of fees”
• “We decline to consider any issue raised for the first time in the reply brief.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Cornerstone SMR, Inc. v. Bank of America, N.A.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-04-08· cited 17×
• Chadbourne v. Chadbourne
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-08-18· cited 1×
• Kelly A. Kranci v. Casey J. Kranci
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2024-11-20
• Jayne Loconto v. Richard J. Loconto
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2025-05-28

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Canakaris v. Canakaris
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1980-03-27· cited 2,288×
• JAB ENTERPRISES v. Gibbons
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-04-15· cited 34×
• Derrevere v. Derrevere
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-03-23· cited 21×
• Margulies v. Margulies
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-11-02· cited 14×
• Bagley v. Bagley
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-10-14· cited 11×
• Phillips v. Ford
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-11-24· cited 7×
• Goldstein v. Goldstein
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-06-27· cited 3×