Shifting Your Legal Fees to Your Opponent: Florida's Tricky and Prickly Proposals for Settlement

Tired of winning your case in court but spending tens (or hundreds) of thousands of dollars in attorneys fees? Florida law has a mechanism whereby you, a litigant, can shift your legal fees and costs to your opponent, leaving him not only the humiliated, bloody, battle torn and defeated loser in the litigation (OK, maybe I'm a little competitive), but also with a boatload of your expenses that he has to pay. This cost-shifting mechanism is called a Proposal for Settlement ("PFS"), and when properly used it can assert pressures on the other side to settle, or at least be...

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