{"id":2226,"date":"2011-07-05T11:18:47","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T11:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bresky-merger.local.com\/posts\/fourth-dca-a-partys-attorney-is-legally-insufficient-to-execute-sworn-affidavit-under-fla-stat-%c2%a7222-12-affidavit-must-be-executed-by-party-who-sued\/"},"modified":"2011-07-05T11:18:47","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T11:18:47","slug":"fourth-dca-a-partys-attorney-is-legally-insufficient-to-execute-sworn-affidavit-under-fla-stat-%c2%a7222-12-affidavit-must-be-executed-by-party-who-sued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssrga.com\/appellate\/fourth-dca-a-partys-attorney-is-legally-insufficient-to-execute-sworn-affidavit-under-fla-stat-%c2%a7222-12-affidavit-must-be-executed-by-party-who-sued\/","title":{"rendered":"A Party\u2019s Attorney is Legally Insufficient to Execute Sworn Affidavit Under Fla. Stat. \u00a7222.12 ; Affidavit Must be Executed by Party Who Sued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Caproc Third Ave., L.L.C. v. Donisi Ins. Inc., and Donosi, 4D09-4792<br \/>\nJune 1, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Fourth District wrote to address the issue of who may properly deny facts set forth in a judgment debtor\u2019s affidavit for exemption under section 222.12, Florida Statutes.\u00a0 Caproc Third Avenue, LLC (\u201cCaproc\u201d) obtained a final judgment against Charles Donisi. A writ of garnishment was issued against Donisi\u2019s personal bank accounts. Donisi filed an Emergency Motion to Dissolve the Writ and executed an affidavit asserting his accounts were exempt from garnishment. In response, Caproc\u2019s attorney filed an \u201cattorney\u2019s affidavit\u201d that denied under oath the facts set forth in Donisi\u2019s affidavit.\u00a0 The trial court dissolved the writ and found the affidavit filed by Caproc\u2019s attorney legally insufficient to satisfy Caproc\u2019s burden under \u00a7222.12 to deny the facts under oath.<\/p>\n<p>Caproc appealed, arguing that it was permissible under the statute for its attorney to execute the sworn denial of the debtor\u2019s exemption affidavit. The Fourth District disagreed, holding that the language of the statute was clear and unambiguous in its requirement that the party who sued out the process, and not the party\u2019s attorney, deny under oath the facts set forth by the debtor.\u00a0 The Court stated S. Attractions, Inc. v. Grau for the proposition that \u201c[u]nder a statute requiring an affidavit to be made by a particular person himself, his agent or attorney cannot make it.\u201d 93 So.2d 120, 125 (Fla. 1967).\u00a0 The Fourth District affirmed the dissolution of the writ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caproc Third Ave., L.L.C. v. Donisi Ins. Inc., and Donosi, 4D09-4792 June 1, 2011 The Fourth District wrote to address the issue of who may properly deny facts set forth in a judgment debtor\u2019s affidavit for exemption under section 222.12, Florida Statutes.\u00a0 Caproc Third Avenue, LLC (\u201cCaproc\u201d) obtained a final judgment against Charles Donisi. A&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1811,1822],"tags":[2092,2093,2094,2095,2096,2097,1881,1932,1915,2098,2099,1912,2100,2101],"class_list":["post-2226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4th-dca-rulings","category-contact","tag-attorney","tag-caproc-third-ave","tag-debtors-affidavit","tag-deny-facts","tag-donisi-ins-inc","tag-emergency-motion-to-dissolve-the-writ","tag-florida-statute","tag-fourth-dca","tag-judgment","tag-l-l-c","tag-sworn-affidavit","tag-trial-court","tag-under-oath","tag-writ-of-garnishment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssrga.com\/appellate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssrga.com\/appellate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssrga.com\/appellate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssrga.com\/appellate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssrga.com\/appellate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ssrga.com\/appellate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssrga.com\/appellate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssrga.com\/appellate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssrga.com\/appellate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}