Case ID: so2d_573/html/1072-01.html
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Robert B. SERGE, Appellant, v. Frances A. ROBERTSON, a/k/a Frances A. Ewing, Appellee.
    No. 89-2058.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
    Feb. 13, 1991.
    Robert B. Serge, Fort Lauderdale, pro se.
    Paul S. Stuart of Stuart & Walker, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellee.
   PER CURIAM.

We reverse the trial court’s order ratifying a general master’s report and rejecting appellant’s exceptions to the report.

The record reflects that the appellant did not consent to a referral to the master. Nor was there any conduct on his part constituting a waiver of the referral. To the contrary, there is unrefuted evidence that he orally objected. See Bathurst v. Turner, 533 So.2d 939 (Fla.3d DCA 1988); Fla.R.Civ.P. 1.490(c). It was error to ratify the report and reject the exceptions in the absence of a transcript or adequate written record of the master’s hearing. Fla.R. Civ.P. 1.490(f).

STONE, WARNER and POLEN, JJ., concur.