District Court of Appeal of Florida

In a dissolution of marriage case, an order granting relief from judgment pursuant to a finding that the circuit court lacked subject matter jurisdiction over the proceedings solely because the former husband did not file a Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act affidavit is reversed where the former wife failed to establish a basis for a collateral attack the judgment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/28/2006
• Published 04/28/2006

Judges

• VILLANTI, Judge.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lorena L. Kiely of Law Office of Lorena L. Kiely, Tampa, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• J. Stanford Lifsey of J. Stanford Lifsey, P.A., Tampa, for Appellee.