COOPER MEISTER v. MEISTER (2021)

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Queen Elizabeth COOPER-MEISTER, Appellant, v. Joseph MEISTER, Appellee.

No. 3D19-2256

Decided: September 01, 2021

Before FERNANDEZ, C.J., and SCALES and LOBREE, JJ.

Diaz Law and Vanessa E. Diaz, for appellant. Florida Family Law Clinic, LLC, and David M. Scott (Fort Lauderdale), for appellee.

Affirmed. See Curbelo v. Ullman, 571 So. 2d 443, 444 (Fla. 1990) (noting that Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.540 was not “intended to serve as a substitute ․ for appellate review of judicial error” but “to provide relief from judgments, decrees or orders under a limited set of circumstances” (quoting Fiber Crete Homes, Inc. v. Div. of Admin., 315 So. 2d 492, 493 (Fla. 4th DCA 1975))); Applegate v. Barnett Bank of Tallahassee, 377 So. 2d 1150, 1152 (Fla. 1979) (“In appellate proceedings the decision of a trial court has the presumption of correctness and the burden is on the appellant to demonstrate error.”); GMAC Mortg., LLC v. Palenzuela, 208 So. 3d 181, 183 (Fla. 3d DCA 2016) (observing that generally, in absence of transcript of underlying hearing, or stipulated statement as allowed by Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.200, challenged order that is not fundamentally erroneous on its face must be affirmed).

PER CURIAM.

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