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Date Created: 2024-04-17 15:04:06.780372+00
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Third District Court of Appeal
                                State of Florida

                          Opinion filed April 17, 2024.
        Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.

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                              No. 3D23-1728
                        Lower Tribunal No. 08-14505
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                             HLHL, P.A., etc.,
                                   Appellant,

                                      vs.

                     Fidel Castro Ruz, etc., et al.,
                                  Appellees.

     An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Beatrice
Butchko, Judge.

     The Hall Law Firm, P.A., and Adam S. Hall, for appellant.
     Mark Migdal & Hayden, Desiree Fernandez, and Jose M. Ferrer,
for appellees Alfredo Villoldo and Gustavo E. Villoldo.

Before FERNANDEZ, MILLER and LOBREE, JJ.

     PER CURIAM.
      Affirmed. Daniel Mones, P.A. v. Smith, 486 So. 2d 559, 561 (Fla. 1986)

(“In order to give timely notice of a charging lien an attorney should either file

a notice of lien or otherwise pursue the lien in the original action.”); Sinclair,

Louis, Siegel, Heath, Nussbaum & Zavertnik, P.A. v. Baucom, 428 So. 2d

1383, 1385 (Fla. 1983); Naftzger v. Elam, 41 So. 3d 944, 946 (Fla. 2d DCA

2010) (“If notice is not given before entry of the final judgment or an order

dismissing the case, the trial court loses jurisdiction to enforce a charging

lien in the original action.”); Central Mortg. Co. v. Callahan, 155 So. 3d 373,

376 (Fla. 3d DCA 2014) (“[R]eservation of jurisdiction must be specific.”);

Correa v. Christensen, 780 So. 2d 220, 220 (Fla. 5th DCA 2001) (“It is not

enough to support the imposition of a charging lien that an attorney has

provided his services; the services must, in addition, produce a positive

judgment or settlement for the client, since the lien will attach only to the

tangible fruits of the services.”); Franklin & Marbin, P.A. v. Mascola, 711 So.

2d 46, 53 (Fla. 4th DCA 1998) (providing that a charging lien proceeding

only applies when “identifiable property recovered as a result of the lawyer’s

labors.”).

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