Case Name: LAW OFFICE OF SARA LAWRENCE, P.A., Appellant, v. Laura LIVINGSTON, Edward Gary Livingston, and Cadillac Only, Inc., a Florida corporation, Appellees
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1997-12-17
Citations: 702 So. 2d 616
Docket Number: No. 97-0336
Parties: LAW OFFICE OF SARA LAWRENCE, P.A., Appellant, v. Laura LIVINGSTON, Edward Gary Livingston, and Cadillac Only, Inc., a Florida corporation, Appellees.
Judges: GLICKSTEIN, GUNTHER and POLEN, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 702
Pages: 616–617

Head Matter:
LAW OFFICE OF SARA LAWRENCE, P.A., Appellant, v. Laura LIVINGSTON, Edward Gary Livingston, and Cadillac Only, Inc., a Florida corporation, Appellees.
No. 97-0336.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
Dec. 17, 1997.
Sara Lawrence of Law Office of Sara Lawrence, P.A., Miami, pro se.
No appearance for appellees.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Sara Lawrence, of Sara Lawrence, P.A., the former attorney for the husband in the underlying dissolution action, appeals the trial court's order denying her motion to enforce a valid charging lien. We reverse the order because a summary proceeding in the original action represents the preferred method of enforcing an attorney's charging lien in Florida. Zimmerman v. Livnat, 507 So.2d 1205 (Fla. 4th DCA 1987). When the validity and amount of an attorney's charging lien are clearly and emphatically settled, as they were here, it is the duty of the trial court to enforce the lien by summary proceeding in the underlying action. Edward C. Tietig, P.A. v. Southeast Reg'l Constr. Corp., 617 So.2d 761 (Fla. 4th DCA 1993).
REVERSED and REMANDED.
GLICKSTEIN, GUNTHER and POLEN, JJ., concur.