JAMES KWONG LIFEN LI KWONG v. COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING BRANCH BANKING AND TRUST COMPANY BOCA DEL MAR IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION INC JOHN DOE JANE DOE (2010)

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

JAMES KWONG and LIFEN LI KWONG, Appellants, v. COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, L.P., BRANCH BANKING AND TRUST COMPANY, BOCA DEL MAR IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION, INC., JOHN DOE, and JANE DOE, Appellees.

No. 4D10-1129

Decided: December 15, 2010

James Kwong and Lifen Li Kwong appeal from a non-final order denying their motion to quash service of process. They claim that service was defective because the process servicer failed to note, among other things, the time of service on the copy of the complaint served. Because strict compliance with statutory requirements of service is mandated, we conclude that failure to make the obligatory notations renders the service defective. We therefore reverse and remand for further proceedings. See Vidal v. Suntrust Bank, 41 So.3d 401 (Fla. 4th DCA 2010).

Reversed and remanded.

Hazouri, Ciklin and Levine, JJ., concur.

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Appeal of a non-final order from the Circuit Court for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, Palm Beach County; Meenu Sasser, Judge; L.T. Case No. 502009CA009935XXXXMB.

Thomas E. Ice of Ice Legal, P.A., West Palm Beach, for appellants.

Serena Kay Tibbitt of Kahane and Associates, P.A., Plantation, for appellee Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, L.P.

Per Curiam.

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