Case Name: Daniel Lynn OVERBEY, Appellant, v. Janet Carol Hutching OVERBEY, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1995-12-15
Citations: 664 So. 2d 351
Docket Number: No. 95-910
Parties: Daniel Lynn OVERBEY, Appellant, v. Janet Carol Hutching OVERBEY, Appellee.
Judges: GOSHORN and ANTOON, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 664
Pages: 351–352

Head Matter:
Daniel Lynn OVERBEY, Appellant, v. Janet Carol Hutching OVERBEY, Appellee.
No. 95-910.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
Dec. 15, 1995.
Lawrence J. Nixon, Daytona Beach, for Appellant.
Richard J. D’Amico, Ormond Beach, for Appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Daniel Overbey appeals from the final order awarding his former wife attorney's fees resulting from a modification proceeding filed by Overbey. We find that the trial court abused its discretion because the parties have a substantially equal ability to pay. See Cummings v. Cummings, 330 So.2d 134, 136 (Fla.1976) (where the parties to a dissolution proceeding are equally able to pay attorney's fees, it is an abuse of the court's discretion to require one spouse to pay the other's attorney's fees); Sizemore v. Sizemore, 487 So.2d 1080, 1081 (Fla. 5th DCA 1986) (stating that "[w]here the parties depart the marriage in relatively equal economic circumstances, it is error to award attorney's fees to one party.") (citations omitted). Accordingly, we reverse.
REVERSED.
GOSHORN and ANTOON, JJ., concur.
DAUKSCH, J., dissents, with opinion.
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent.