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Kwong v. Coun. Home Loans Serv

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District
Feb 2, 2011
54 So. 3d 1033 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2011)

Opinion

No. 4D10-1129.

February 2, 2011.

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 and Enrique Nieves of Ice Legal, P.A., Royal Palm Beach, for appellants.

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


ON APPELLEE'S MOTION FOR CLARIFICATION


We grant the appellee's motion for clarification, withdraw our previous opinion dated December 15, 2010, and substitute the following:

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 process 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.


Summaries of

Kwong v. Coun. Home Loans Serv

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District
Feb 2, 2011
54 So. 3d 1033 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2011)
Case details for

Kwong v. Coun. Home Loans Serv

Case Details

Full title:James KWONG and Lifen Li Kwong, Appellants, v. COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS…

Court:District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District

Date published: Feb 2, 2011

Citations

54 So. 3d 1033 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2011)

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