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Timestamp: 2019-04-23 04:28:28+00:00

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Clausen v. Clausen, 43 Fla.L.Weekly D1913 (Fla. 5th DCA 2018). Award of alimony remanded as court failed to include wife’s imputed income in determination.
Velez v. Montalvo-Velez, 43 Fla.L.Weekly D1831 (Fla. 2nd DCA 2018). Award of alimony remanded because Court did not provide findings that would allow a meaningful review.
Salgado v. Suyapa-Jimenez, 43 Fla.L.Weekly D1921 (Fla. 3rd DCA 2018). Timely filed motion for rehearing on final order tolls deadline to appeal. Amended final judgment entered after appeal is filed is a nullity.
Marzullo v. Marzullo, 43 Fla.L.Weekly D1668 (Fla. 2nd DCA 2018). Appeal was dismissed as judicial labor was not complete and judgment was therefore non-final.
Bauchman v. Bauchman, 43 Fla.L.Weekly D1858 (Fla. 4th DCA 2018). It is not enough to show adverse party’s ability to pay is greater, you must show the necessity for financial assistance to support award of fees.
Onge v. Carriero, 43 Fla.L.Weekly D1971 (Fla. 1st DCA 2018). Orthodontics are extraordinary medical expense. You cannot compel other parent to pay unless it is specified in agreement or judgment.
Cooley v. Cooley, 43 Fla.L.Weekly D1965 (Fla. 2nd DCA 2018). The fact one party was primary source of income during marriage is insufficient to support unequal distribution.
Olivarez v. Olivarez, 43 Fla.L.Weekly D1902 (Fla. 1st DCA 2018). Court cannot charge $23,000 account depleted during pendency of divorce to party without findings of waste.
DiStefano v. DiStefano, 43 Fla.L.Weekly D1849 (Fla. 2nd DCA 2018). House and car titled in Wife’s name bought with wife’s non-marital money which was deposited into an account in Wife’s name alone that was commingled with wife’s earning during marriage caused house and car to be marital.
Bork v. Pare, 43 Fla.L.Weekly D1794 (Fla. 2nd DCA 2018). Trial court erred summarily denying motion to dissolve injunction that was facially sufficient.
Knecht v. Palmer, 43 Fla.L.Weekly D1779 (Fla. 5th DCA 2018). Wife commingled funds for improvements for the wife’s non-marital house because funds were deposited into joint account before being dispersed. But under the circumstances of this case, wife was entitled to unequal distribution so judgment awarding 100% of house to wife affirmed.
Vaughn v. Vaughn, 43 Fla.L.Weekly D1683 (Fla. 4th DCA 2018). General conclusory statement that certain items were marital and some were not were not sufficient findings of fact required by 61.075(3)(d).
Lopez v. Hernandez, 43 Fla.L.Weekly D1681 (Fla. 4th DCA 2017). Without transcript, valuation of home affirmed. There is no requirement for Court to make findings of fact supporting each value. Without transcript, giving wife 55 months to pay husband equalizing payment affirmed. Without transcript, granting wife “special equity” in house titled in her name remanded because judgment did not contain findings that proceeds to purchase were marital or non-marital.
Carroll v. Goll, 43 Fla.LWeekly D1933 (Fla. 3rd DCA 2018). Obligation to pay child support in domestic violence injunction ends when injunction expires.
Raulerson v. Font, 43 Fla.L.Weekly D1746 (Fla. 3rd DCA 2018). Petition for stalking injunction dismissed because conduct between two attorneys constituted unprofessional behavior, not stalking and better addressed by Florida Bar. Litigation immunity does not apply to stalking injunction. Lengthy discussion.
Murphy v. Blubaugh, 43 Fla.L.Weekly D1712 (Fla. 2nd DCA 2018). Can’t complain about insufficient evidence in stalking injunction if you don’t provide appellate court transcript.
Douglas v. Douglas, 43 Fla.L.Weekly D1711 (Fla. 2nd DCA 2018). The following actions in close proximity do not constitute grounds for domestic violence injunction because there was no threatened or actual violence; 1) husband peeled out of wife’s business parking lot in front of her and other people, 2) husband locked himself in bedroom and wouldn’t open door, 3) the husband was seen in the same mall where wife was having lunch, 4) husband called wife “mother of the year” for missing son’s basketball team and pointing finger in her face, and 5) husband called wife liar and pointed finger in her face.
McKnight v. McKnight, 43 Fla.L.Weekly D1752 (Fla. 1st DCA 2018). Life insurance requirement on alimony reversed when no special circumstances, nor would recipient be in dire financial straights if obligor died.
Bauchman v. Bauchman, 43 Fla.L.Weekly D1858 (Fla. 4th DCA 2018). Retirement does not have to be unanticipated to trigger modification.
Buschor v. Barnes, 43 Fla.L.Weekly D1775 (Fla. 5th DCA 2018). Order modifying timesharing reversed because relief not pled and parties due process was therefore violated.
Fields v. Fields, 43 Fla.L.Weekly D1963 (Fla. 5th DCA 2018). Trial court affirmed for setting aside final judgment that was wife’s proposal that husband objected to, but Court went too far setting aside settlement agreement when relief was not requested.
In Re: Amendments to the Florida Supreme Court Approved Family Law Forms, 43 Fla.L.Weekly S328 (Fla. 2018). Amended notice of hearing for contempt motions.
Fields v. Fields, 43 Fla.L.Weekly D1963 (Fla. 5th DCA 2018). Trial court can set aside final judgment that was wife’s proposal that husband objected to, but Court went too far setting aside agreement when relief was not requested.
Munoz v. Salgado, 43 Fla.L.Weekly D1825 (Fla. 3rd DCA 2018). Trial court denied Father due process by granting Mother’s emergency motion to change custody without giving father meaningful opportunity to be heard.
McNeil v. McNeil, 43 Fla.L.Weekly D1694 (Fla. 5th DCA 2018). Must prove residency with corroborating evidence for Court to have jurisdiction to enter dissolution.
Franco v. Thomas, 43 Fla.L.Weekly D1647 (Fla. 3rd DCA 2018). Trial court erred granting 1.540 motion for relief from judgment. 1.540 is not an appropriate vehicle to challenge final judgment based on legal error. That’s what rehearings and appeals are for.
Ryan v. Ryan, 43 Fla.L.Weekly D1796 (Fla. 4th DCA 2018). Attorney had good cause to preclude entry of relocation despite not filing response to relocation petition within 20 days.
Buschor v. Barnes, 43 Fla.L.Weekly D1775 (Fla. 5th DCA 2018). Order denying relocation reversed because competent evidence demonstrated relocation was in child’s best interest. Lengthy discussion.
Masnev v. Masnev, 43 Fla.L.Weekly D1863 (Fla. 4th DCA 2018). No provision in law for Court to award lump sum child support.
Denis v. Denis, 43 Fla.L.Weekly D1729 (Fla. 3rd DCA 2018). Child support judgment remanded back to trial court to explain why it did not apportion uncovered medical expenses pro rata to parties’ income.

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