Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2024-04-08 19:03:04.694997+00
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SIXTH DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
                        STATE OF FLORIDA
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                              Case No. 6D23-404
                       Lower Tribunal No. 22-DR-033481
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                                SEAN ROWLAND,

                                   Appellant,
                                        v.

                                AIME ROWLAND,

                                    Appellee.
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                  Appeal from the Circuit Court for Lee County.
                            Cynthia Pivacek, Judge.

                                  April 8, 2024

PER CURIAM.

      Sean Rowland appeals the final judgment of injunction for protection against

domestic violence entered against him and in favor of Aime Rowland after an

evidentiary hearing. 1 We review de novo the legal sufficiency of evidence to

determine whether it supports entry of a domestic violence injunction. See Fingers

v. Fingers, 353 So. 3d 1283, 1285 (Fla. 5th DCA 2023) (citing Robinson v.

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       This case was transferred from the Second District Court of Appeal to this
Court on January 1, 2023.
Robinson, 257 So. 3d 1187, 1189 (Fla. 5th DCA 2018)). In this case, the trial court

concluded that the appellee had reasonable cause to believe that she was in imminent

danger of becoming a victim of domestic violence. See § 741.30(6)(a), (b), Fla. Stat.

(2021); Leal v. Rodriguez, 220 So. 3d 543, 545 (Fla. 3d DCA 2017). Our review of

the record and evidentiary hearing transcript does not illustrate a sufficient statutory

basis to support this conclusion. Accordingly, we reverse the final judgment and

direct the trial court to vacate the injunction.

      REVERSED and REMANDED with instructions.

TRAVER, C.J., and NARDELLA, J., and LAMBERT, B.D., Associate Judge,
concur.

Roy W. Foxall, of Roy W. Foxall, P.A., Fort Myers, for Appellant.

No Appearance for Appellee.

  NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE MOTION FOR REHEARING
           AND DISPOSITION THEREOF IF TIMELY FILED

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