fees in this order that Ms. Kay brings for our review. The purpose of section 61.16(1), Florida Statutes (2005), in permitting an award of attorney’s fees in dissolution and postdissolution proceedings is to ensure that both parties will have similar financial ability to obtain competent legal counsel. The primary factor in considering whether to award one party’s fees is the financial resources of the parties. Other factors that may also be considered include the merits of the parties’ respective positions, the duration of the litigation, whether the litig ). The trial court should also determine an attorney’s fee award upon the parties’ individual financial resources, not the financial assistance provided by family or friends. Mott v. Mott, 800 So.2d 331, 334 (Fla. 2d DCA 2001) (<HOLDING>). In this case, it is undisputed that Mr.
holding that when a defendant has in fact changed his residence but to all appearances is still occupying a former dwelling substituted service at the former dwelling is proper holding that the former husbands property from a noninterspousal gift may not be distributed under section 610751 although use of the former husbands separate property may be awarded to the former wife to satisfy the former husbands child support obligation holding that the voluntary contributions of a livein companion cannot be substituted for the legal obligation of a former spouse holding that voluntary testimony by spouse is not covered by husbandwife privilege holding that absent an actionable injury to one spouse the other spouse cannot recover for loss of consortium