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Date Created: 2023-11-27 15:20:42.570968+00
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FIFTH DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
                STATE OF FLORIDA
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                        Case No. 5D23-527
                  LT Case No. 2021-30846-FMCI
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THOMAS Y. KANI,

    Appellant,

    v.

RAYAUNA FEASTER,

    Appellee.
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On appeal from the Circuit Court for Volusia County.
Stasia Warren, Judge.

Christopher V. Butler, of Butler Legal, P.A., Sanford, for
Appellant.

No Appearance for Appellee.

                         October 6, 2023

PER CURIAM.

      Thomas Y. Kani appeals the trial court’s final judgment of
paternity rendered after trial. He raises two grounds for reversal.
Kani asserts that under Perlow v. Berg-Perlow, 875 So. 2d 383 (Fla.
2004), and its progeny, the trial court erred in adopting, verbatim,
Appellee’s proposed final judgment. The record, however, reflects
that the final judgment entered by the trial court included its own
changes, additions, and deletions to Appellee’s proposed final
judgment and was entered some ten days after Kani had received
the proposed judgment and thus had the ability to notify the trial
court of any objections. Accordingly, we affirm on this issue. 1

      On Kani’s remaining ground for relief, we affirm on the
authority of Hester v. Hester, 705 So. 2d 721, 721 (Fla. 5th DCA
1998) (“In the absence of a record of the final hearing on November
20, 1996, there is no basis to reverse the appealed judgment on
evidentiary grounds. The child support guidelines worksheet
attached to the judgment has sufficient information to allow
review of the guidelines calculation, and we find no error.”).

    AFFIRMED.

LAMBERT, HARRIS, and PRATT, JJ., concur.

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    Not final until disposition of any timely and
    authorized motion under Fla. R. App. P. 9.330 or
    9.331.
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    1 Kani had also submitted to the trial court his own proposed

final judgment for consideration.

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