Case Name: Chelsea GOODING, Appellant, v. John M. GOODING, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1986-01-20
Citations: 481 So. 2d 1276
Docket Number: No. BC-406
Parties: Chelsea GOODING, Appellant, v. John M. GOODING, Appellee.
Judges: BOOTH, C.J., and BEN C. WILLIS (Ret.), Associate Judge, concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 481
Pages: 1276–1277

Head Matter:
Chelsea GOODING, Appellant, v. John M. GOODING, Appellee.
No. BC-406.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
Jan. 20, 1986.
Rehearing Denied Feb. 14, 1986.
Robert B. Staats, Panama City, for appellant.
William E. Harris, Panama City, for ap-pellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
This cause is before us on appeal from an order in which the trial court determined it lacked jurisdiction to amend a final judgment in a dissolution of marriage where the husband made a $23,000 misrepresentation regarding the mortgage debt on a house in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The record shows that the balance due on the New Orleans property was $63,000 and that the husband represented to the trial court the balance due was $40,000. After judgment awarding the wife the New Orleans property, on which she was to assume the mortgage debt, the wife requested relief pursuant to Rule 1.540(b), Florida Rules of Civil Procedure. The misrepresentation was discovered after time for a motion for rehearing had passed, yet within the year required by that rule, and is properly raised by the motion. The trial court has jurisdiction to consider and grant relief under Rule 1.540(b). See, Caracristi v. Caracristi, 324 So.2d 634 (Fla. 2d DCA 1976).
Accordingly, the order below is reversed and the cause remanded for proceedings consistent herewith.
BOOTH, C.J., and BEN C. WILLIS (Ret.), Associate Judge, concur.
ZEHMER, J., dissents.