Case Name: Laura Lee WHELPLEY, Appellant, v. Jose Arthur DE ATHAYDE COSTA, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1995-01-25
Citations: 648 So. 2d 1252
Docket Number: No. 93-2158
Parties: Laura Lee WHELPLEY, Appellant, v. Jose Arthur DE ATHAYDE COSTA, Appellee.
Judges: PARIENTE and STEVENSON, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 648
Pages: 1252–1252

Head Matter:
Laura Lee WHELPLEY, Appellant, v. Jose Arthur DE ATHAYDE COSTA, Appellee.
No. 93-2158.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
Jan. 25, 1995.
Steven D. Feren of Altman, Shnider & Feren, P.A., Sunrise, and Nancy Little Hoff-mann of Nancy Little Hoffmann, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellant.
No brief filed on behalf of appellee.

Opinion:
WARNER, Judge.
The former husband, a citizen and resident of Brazil, petitioned the circuit court for a writ of habeas corpus seeking custody of the parties' two children, who had been living in Florida with the former wife for more than six months. The court granted the petition on the authority of a Brazilian court order awarding temporary custody to the former husband. We reverse because the former wife was not given proper notice of the Brazilian court proceeding.
Section 61.1348, Florida Statutes (1993), provides for recognition of a foreign custody decree "if reasonable notice and opportunity to be heard were given to all affected persons." The trial court found in this case that the only notice to the former wife was provided after entry of the Brazilian court order. We therefore hold that the Brazilian custody decree was not entitled to recognition. See Kallman v. Kallman, 623 So.2d 1213 (Fla. 3d DCA 1993), review denied, 634 So.2d 625 (Fla.1994).
REVERSED.
PARIENTE and STEVENSON, JJ., concur.