Case Name: Maria De Los Dolores RODRIGUEZ, Appellant, v. Nestor MORALES, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1983-02-08
Citations: 426 So. 2d 1149
Docket Number: No. 81-2750
Parties: Maria De Los Dolores RODRIGUEZ, Appellant, v. Nestor MORALES, Appellee.
Judges: Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and HUB-BART and NESBITT, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 426
Pages: 1149–1149

Head Matter:
Maria De Los Dolores RODRIGUEZ, Appellant, v. Nestor MORALES, Appellee.
No. 81-2750.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Feb. 8, 1983.
Joe N. Unger, Miami, Max Hagen, North Miami Beach, for appellant.
Wicker, Smith, Blomqvist, Tutan, O’Hara, McCoy, Graham & Lane and Richard Sherman, Miami, for appellee.
Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and HUB-BART and NESBITT, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The final summary judgment under review, which was entered below in favor of the defendant Nestor Morales in this legal malpractice action, is reversed because the record does not, as it must, establish that no genuine issue of material fact exists concerning the defendant's alleged malpractice. Fla.R.Civ.P. 1.510(b), (c). The central material issue of fact which remains is whether the defendant Morales negligently failed to object or file a timely petition for rehearing or modification after the trial court entered a final judgment of divorce herein which failed to "freeze" the equity of the plaintiff's former husband in the parties' marital residence as of the date of the final hearing herein when such omission was allegedly at odds with: (a) the trial court's oral ruling thereon at the time of the final hearing herein, and (b) the defendant's explanation to the plaintiff immediately after the final hearing as to what the trial court had ruled. See e.g., Holl v. Talcott, 191 So.2d 40 (Fla.1966); Snyder v. Cheezem Development Corp., 373 So.2d 719, 720 (Fla. 2d DCA 1979).
Reversed and remanded.