Case Name: Mohamed Nabil RAHAL, Appellant, v. Nadia ZERHOUNI, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2003-12-24
Citations: 861 So. 2d 114
Docket Number: No. 3D03-1688
Parties: Mohamed Nabil RAHAL, Appellant, v. Nadia ZERHOUNI, Appellee.
Judges: Before COPE, GODERICH and SHEPHERD, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 861
Pages: 114–114

Head Matter:
Mohamed Nabil RAHAL, Appellant, v. Nadia ZERHOUNI, Appellee.
No. 3D03-1688.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Dec. 24, 2003.
Bofill & Vilar and Jose Bofill, Miami, for appellant.
Stephen K. Loffredo, Miami Shores, for appellee.
Before COPE, GODERICH and SHEPHERD, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Mohamed Nabil Rahal appeals a final judgment of dissolution of marriage. We affirm.
First, there was competent substantial evidence to support the trial court's conclusion that the residency requirement was satisfied in this case. See § 61.021, Fla. Stat. (2003). There is ample record support for the trial court's conclusion that the appellee-petitioner wife was an established . Florida resident whose absence from the country was both temporary and involuntary. See Wade v. Wade, 93 Fla. 1004, 113 So. 374, 377 (1927); Wetherstein v. Wetherstein, 111 So.2d 292, 293-94 (Fla. 2d DCA 1959); 26 Fla. Jur.2d Family Law § 897 (2002). Second, the appellant husband properly concedes that the trial court had jurisdiction to resolve the parties' claims to the parties' Florida real estate.
This court entered a stay pending appeal of the court-ordered sale of the parties' Florida real estate. This court now vacates that stay and the sale may proceed. The vacating of the stay is effective immediately and will not be delayed by the filing of a motion for rehearing, or other post-decision motion.
Affirmed.