Case Name: Mirtha CASTELLVI, Appellant, v. Robert ALVAREZ, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1993-05-04
Citations: 619 So. 2d 326
Docket Number: No. 93-153
Parties: Mirtha CASTELLVI, Appellant, v. Robert ALVAREZ, Appellee.
Judges: Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and HUBBART and COPE, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 619
Pages: 326–326

Head Matter:
Mirtha CASTELLVI, Appellant, v. Robert ALVAREZ, Appellee.
No. 93-153.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
May 4, 1993.
Rehearing Denied June 22, 1993.
Shea & Gould and Elizabeth S. Baker, Miami, for appellant.
Genet & Criscuolo and Don Criscuolo, North Miami Beach, for appellee.
Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and HUBBART and COPE, JJ.

Opinion:
SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.
Astonishingly enough, after the decision in Alvarez v. Alvarez, 566 So.2d 516 (Fla. 3d DCA 1990), the mother and child in question moved back from New Jersey to Miami. In these circumstances, it is apparent, not only that the Dade County Court had jurisdiction over the custody proceeding under Section 61.1308, Florida Statutes (1989), Yurgel v. Yurgel, 572 So.2d 1327 (Fla.1990); Alvarez, 566 So.2d at 518-19 (indicating that Florida had concurrent jurisdiction even though child was in New Jersey), but that Florida is now the eminently "convenient forum," § 61.1316, Fla. Stat. (1989), in which the issue should be tried. Compare Alvarez, 566 So.2d at 519-20 (holding that Florida was then an "inconvenient forum" so that jurisdiction must be deferred to New Jersey where the child then resided). Hence, we reject the mother's present challenge to the jurisdiction of the lower court.
We similarly find no error in the visitation order entered below. See Yandell v. Yandell, 39 So.2d 554 (Fla.1949); Saenz v. Saenz, 602 So.2d 973 (Fla. 3d DCA 1992), review denied, 613 So.2d 8 (Fla.1992).
Affirmed.
. The stay of the order pending appeal is vacated forthwith.