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Date Created: 2024-04-10 14:04:04.200636+00
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Third District Court of Appeal
                               State of Florida

                         Opinion filed April 10, 2024.
       Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.

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                             No. 3D23-0281
                     Lower Tribunal No. 20-11733 CC
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                      Carlos Gabriel Carus, Jr.,
                                  Appellant,

                                     vs.

                             Gladys Fidelia,
                                  Appellee.

     An Appeal from the County Court for Miami-Dade County, Michael G.
Barket, Judge.

     Kenzie N. Sadlak, P.A. and Kenzie N. Sadlak, for appellant.

     Topouzis & Associates, P.C., and Tyler E. Mesmer, for appellee.

Before FERNANDEZ, MILLER and LOBREE, JJ.

     PER CURIAM.

     Affirmed. See § 720.3085(2)(b), Fla. Stat. (2022) (“A parcel owner is
jointly and severally liable with the previous parcel owner for all unpaid

assessments that came due up to the time of transfer of title.”); Villas of

Windmill Point II Prop. Owners’ Ass’n, Inc. v. Nationstar Mortg., LLC, 229

So. 3d 822, 824 (Fla. 4th DCA 2017) (“[U]nder section 720.3085(2)(c), [the

third-party purchaser] does indirectly benefit from the safe harbor provision

because, under section 720.3085(2)(b), it is jointly and severally liable with

the prior parcel owner . . . for all unpaid assessments due up to the time of

transfer of title, and [the prior parcel owner] did qualify for the safe harbor

provision.”); Cong. Park Off. Condos II, LLC v. First-Citizens Bank & Tr. Co.,

105 So. 3d 602, 608 (Fla. 4th DCA 2013) (“If the incomplete discovery will

not raise future disputed issues of material fact, summary judgment may be

properly granted.” (quoting Osorto v. Deutsche Bank Nat’l Tr. Co., 88 So. 3d

261, 263 (Fla. 4th DCA 2012))).

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