IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE O F FLORIDA FIFTH DISTRICT NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME E XPIRES TO FILE MOTION FOR REHEARING AND DISPOSITION THEREOF IF FILED

ROBERT LENTINO , Appellant ,
v. Case No. 5D 21

- 2155 LT Case No. 2021

- 31507

- FMCI TORIANNE MCKINNEY , Appellee

. ________________________________/ Opinion filed June 3, 202 2 Appeal from the Circuit Court for Vo lusia County , Steven C. Henderson , Judge. Aaron D. Delgado and Ann M. Phillips , of The Law Office of Aaron Delgado & Associates, PLLC, Daytona Beach, for Appellant. No Appearance for Appellee.

SASSO , J. Robert Lentino appeals the final judgment of injunction for protection against dating viol ence entered against him and in favor of Torianne2 McKinney. We agree with Mr. Lentino that the evidence was legally insufficient to support a finding that Ms. McKinney had a reasonable fear that she was in imminent danger of another act of dating violence

. T he trial court, after noting the evidence presented was “complicated and convoluted , ” granted injunctive relief and briefly explained its ruling was predicated on two incidents

— a traffic stop and a phone call . As to the traffic stop , Mr. Lentino properl y objected to the introduction of evidence regarding the incident , arguing the incident was not raised in Ms. McKinney’s petition

. T he trial court overruled Mr. Lentino’s objection, which was error because consideration of the unpled and otherwise unnoticed allegations constituted a due process violation

. See Brooks v. Basdeo , 336 So. 3d 423 , 423 (Fla. 5th DCA 2022) ( holding that a ppellant ’ s due process rights were violated when the trial court permitted , and then rel ied upon, testimony regarding an unpled incident as part of its basis for granting the injunctio n ); De Leon v. Collazo , 178 So. 3d 906, 909 (Fla. 3d DCA 2015) (reversing injunction for protection against domestic violence where material allegations were raised for the first time at the final hearing over objection and appellate court was unable to conclude the erroneous admission of evidence did not contribute to the trial court’s determination). As to the remaining incident relied upon by the trial court, we conclude the evidence supporting the phone call i s legally3 insufficient to support the trial court’s conclusion that Ms. McKinney is a victim in imminent d anger of another act of dating violence. See Cook v. McMillan , 300 So. 3d 189, 191

– 92 (Fla. 4th DCA 2020) (determining that communication not containing threats of violence is insufficient to prove petitioner was in fear of another act of dating violence); Di Stefano v. Long , 279 So. 3d 758, 759 (Fla. 2d DCA 2019) (“[R]egardless of whether the petitioner has been the victim of dating violence in the past, the petitioner must show that he or she has reasonable cause to believe that he or she is in imminent d anger of becoming the victim of an act of dating violence in the future .” (citation omitted)). So, because the trial court’s stated reason for granting the injunction was based on two incidents, where evidence as to the first was admitted in error and evidence as to the second was legally insufficient, we are obligated
to reverse. REVERSED.

COHEN and TRAVER , JJ., concur.