Lopez v. Lopez

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that an award of attorney’s fees to the wife was improper when “the parties’ financial positions ... were equalized through the award of alimony and equitable distribution of marital assets”
• holding that an order requiring a party to purchase life insurance to secure a support obligation must have the requisite evidentiary basis, and reversing for further proceedings to reevaluate the life insurance requirement set forth to secure child support obligations
• noting that “there may be an insurability question” because the former husband had previously had an artificial heart valve inserted
• noting that the fact that the wife had “additional non-marital assets that enable her to retain competent counsel” was further support for the court’s determination that requiring the husband to contribute to the wife’s attorney’s fees was an abuse of discretion
• reversing the award of attorney’s fees to the wife “[b]ecause the parties’ financial positions here were equalized through the award of alimony and equitable distribution of marital assets”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Levy v. Levy
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-04-29· cited 32×
• Cozier v. Cozier
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-05-08· cited 24×
• Zangari v. Cunningham
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-03-19· cited 15×
• Guerin v. DiRoma
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-06-26· cited 15×
• Forgione v. Forgione
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-05-21· cited 10×
• Baker v. Baker
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-05-12· cited 9×
• Wight v. Wight
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-04-28· cited 8×
• Hanson v. Hanson
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2017-04-28· cited 8×
• Bracero v. Bracero
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-06-13· cited 6×
• Rufus Hutchinson v. Hattie P. Hutchinson
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-10-20· cited 4×
• Brady v. Brady
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2017-11-09· cited 3×
• Eisele v. Eisele
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-05-25· cited 3×
• Arthur v. Arthur
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-07-25· cited 2×
• Scalabroni v. Scalabroni
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-02-22· cited 2×
• Cissel v. Cissel
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2011-06-22· cited 2×
• Shulstad v. Shulstad
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-05-25· cited 1×
• LISA KIM KARKHOFF v. THOMAS ANTHONY ROBILOTTA
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2020-12-09
• Christina Fano Schultheis v. Milan Schultheis
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2025-10-29
• Christina Fano Schultheis v. Milan Schultheis
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2026-02-25

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Canakaris v. Canakaris
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1980-03-27· cited 2,288×
• Rosen v. Rosen
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-04-24· cited 318×
• Milo v. Milo
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-09-25· cited 15×
• Jacoby v. Jacoby
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-05-26· cited 13×
• Zimmerman v. Zimmerman
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-03-09· cited 6×
• Knight v. Knight
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-10-06· cited 5×