Blackmon v. Blackmon

Full title: PATRICIA SONDRA BLACKMON, APPELLANT, v. GORDON D. BLACKMON, STEINMETZ…

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District

Date published: Apr 16, 1985

466 So. 2d 1276 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1985)

Opinion

No. 84-1103.

April 16, 1985.

Appeal from Circuit Court, Dade County; Thomas A. Testa, Judge.

Richard J. Burton, Miami, and Roberta Simon, North Miami, for appellant.

Lyons Smith and Robert P. Lithman, Miami, for appellees.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and BARKDULL and JORGENSON, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

The trial court held that a final judgment of a court in a foreign jurisdiction, adjudicating and awarding an undivided one-half interest in Florida real property, was not entitled to full faith and credit and could not act in rem upon the title of the property. We affirm. See Fall v. Eastin, 215 U.S. 1, 30 S.Ct. 3, 54 L.Ed. 65 (1909); Schluter v. Schluter, 130 Cal.App. 780, 20 P.2d 723 (1933); Taylor v. Taylor, 192 Cal. 71, 218 P. 756 (1923); Williams v. Williams, 83 Or. 59, 162 P. 834 (1917); Compare Rozan v. Rozan, 49 Cal.2d 322, 317 P.2d 11 (1957).

Affirmed.