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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Harold E. LANGE, Petitioner, v. Billie Carola LANGE, Respondent.
    No. 54347.
    Supreme Court of Florida.
    Jan. 31, 1980.
    Rehearing Denied March 27, 1980.
    Jos. D. Farish, Jr., Dennis R. Long and F. Kendall Slinkman, of Farish & Farish, West Palm Beach, for petitioner.
    Edna L. Caruso, and the Law Offices of Montgomery, Lytal, Reiter, Denney & Sear-cy, West Palm Beach, for respondent.
   OVERTON, Justice.

This case is before us on petition for writ of certiorari to review a decision of the Fourth District Court of Appeal reported at 357 So.2d 1035 (Fla. 4th DCA 1978). The district court affirmed the trial court’s judgment of dissolution which had awarded to a mentally ill wife exclusive possession of the marital home based on this special circumstance and demonstrated need. We accepted-jurisdiction because the decision conflicts with Saviteer v. McAdoo, 310 So.2d 28 (Fla. 2d DCA 1975). That conflict, however, has been resolved by our decisions in McDonald v. McDonald, 368 So.2d 1283 (Fla.1979), and Duncan v. Duncan, 379 So.2d 949 (Fla.1980), which expressly disapproved Saviteer. Conflict having been resolved, we deny certiorari.

It is so ordered.

ENGLAND, C. J., and ADKINS, BOYD and SUNDBERG, JJ., concur. 
      
      . Art. V., § 3(b)(3), Fla.Const.