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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE of Florida, DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, by and on Behalf of Thomas V. BRAGG, Appellant, v. Gina M. BRAGG, Appellee.
    No. 95-1267.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
    Feb. 7, 1996.
    Rehearing Denied April 11, 1996.
    Joseph R. Boyd and William H. Branch of Boyd & Branch, P.A., Tallahassee, and Chriss Walker, Esq., of the Department of Revenue, Office of Child Support Enforcement, Tallahassee, for Appellant.
    David W. Palmer, II, Tallahassee, for Ap-pellee.
   PER CURIAM.

We reverse the trial court’s order imposing a $3,100 fine for appellant’s failure to timely pay $10.52 in accrued interest. AppeEant paid all other required sums, and the fine was not employed to compensate appeEee for losses she sustained or to coerce appeUant into compliance with a previously issued order. See Johnson v. Bednar, 573 So.2d 822, 824 (Fla.1991). The imposition of the fine in this case, therefore, constitutes an abuse of discretion.

REVERSED.

ERVIN, MINER and MICKLE, JJ., concur.