Case Name: Elaine K. DEWEY, Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. William DEWEY, Appellee/Cross-Appellant
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1983-07-28
Citations: 436 So. 2d 283
Docket Number: No. 82-1276
Parties: Elaine K. DEWEY, Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. William DEWEY, Appellee/Cross-Appellant.
Judges: COBB, J., concurs.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 436
Pages: 283–283

Head Matter:
Elaine K. DEWEY, Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. William DEWEY, Appellee/Cross-Appellant.
No. 82-1276.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
July 28, 1983.
Rehearing Denied Aug. 25, 1983.
Barbara T. Taylor, of Taylor & DaCosta, Cocoa Beach, and Marcia K. Lippincott, of Marcia K. Lippincott, P.A., Orlando, for appellant/ cross-appellee.
M. Brice Corder, of Saxon & Richardson, P.A., Melbourne, for appellee/cross-appel-lant.

Opinion:
DAUKSCH, Judge.
This is an appeal in a marriage dissolution case. We affirm the judgment in all respects except failure to grant the prayer for special equity in the marital home. It is clear from the evidence that funds unconnected with the marriage were used to purchase the home. The cross-appellant (husband) sold his separately owned house and commercial building in Wisconsin and applied the money to the purchase of the Florida home which was jointly owned. Under those circumstances the husband is entitled to a special equity in the property. Weiss v. Weiss, 390 So.2d 1236 (Fla. 4th DCA 1980). The judgment is affirmed in all respects except the paragraph which denies the husband his special equity, which paragraph is reversed, and this cause is remanded for determination of that special equity and judgment thereon.
AFFIRMED in part REVERSED in part and REMANDED.
COBB, J., concurs.
SHARP, J., concurs in part, dissents in part with opinion.