Case Name: Keith A. BLUESTEIN, Former Husband, Appellant, v. Trudy H. BLUESTEIN, Former Wife, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2007-06-05
Citations: 958 So. 2d 1040
Docket Number: No. 1D06-6398
Parties: Keith A. BLUESTEIN, Former Husband, Appellant, v. Trudy H. BLUESTEIN, Former Wife, Appellee.
Judges: BENTON, PADOVANO, and THOMAS, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 958
Pages: 1040–1041

Head Matter:
Keith A. BLUESTEIN, Former Husband, Appellant, v. Trudy H. BLUESTEIN, Former Wife, Appellee.
No. 1D06-6398.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
June 5, 2007.
Harold W. Mitchell of Newman & Mitchell, Jacksonville, for Appellant.
Jeffrey J. Sneed, Atlantic Beach, for Appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Keith Bluestein appeals an order denying motions for termination of alimony and for relief from a consent order, wherein the circuit court sua sponte modified the visitation arrangement. We reverse.
Contrary to the lower court's findings, neither party had raised an issue of visitation, nor had the parties argued it by consent at the hearing. See Walls v. Sebastian, 914 So.2d 1110 (Fla. 4th DCA 2005). Because all parties were by then residing in Virginia, it is questionable whether the circuit court would have had jurisdiction to reach the issue, had it been raised. See § 61.515, Fla. Stat. (2005). We direct the court to strike that portion of the order dealing with visitation.
REVERSED and REMANDED.
BENTON, PADOVANO, and THOMAS, JJ., concur.