Update: Same court again takes hard line on late rent payment into courtregistry
By EsqSocial Corporation 19/01/21
We previously wrote about a case in which a Florida appellate court strictly applied the statute requiring a commercial tenant to pay rent into the court registry during an eviction proceeding. The appellate court noted that there is no “fairness” exception to the statute’s requirement of paying on time. Now the same appellate court has reiterated that principle, but one judge has suggested a change. In a new decision, the court agreed that the trial court correctly evicted the tenant for...
By: Shutts & Bowen LLP