NATIONWIDE MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY AND HUBERT JAMES, APPELLANTS,

v.

JON W. SCHAEFER, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By

• Reopelle v. Reopelle, 587 So. 2d 508 (Fla. 5th DCA 1991)
  …hey do not hold that this finding must be written. Gloria then cites to numerous eases “which plainly state that the necessary findings must be reduced to writing and signed”: Sahler v. Sahler, 154 Fla. 206, 17 So. 2d 105 (1944); Messana v. Messana, 421 So. 2d 48 (Fla. 4th DCA 1982); Jaris v. Tucker, 414 So. 2d 1164 (Fla. 3d DCA), dismissed, 419 So. 2d 1198 (Fla.1982); Leitner v. Willaford, 306 So. 2d 555 (Fla. 3d DCA 1975); and Silvern v. Silvern, 252 So. 2d 865 (Fla. 3d DCA 1971). These cases, however, sim…
• Gaines v. Sayne, 764 So. 2d 578 (Fla. 2000)
  …the decree. Hence, Sahler stands for the proposition that the death of one of the parties prior to the entry of a judgment of dissolution precludes the trial court from exercising any further jurisdiction over the matter. Accord Messana v. Messana, 421 So. 2d 48 (Fla. 4th DCA 1982); Jaris v. Tucker, 414 So. 2d 1164, 1166 n. 2 (Fla. 3d DCA 1982); McKendree v. McKendree, 139 So. 2d 173 (Fla. 1st DCA 1962); see also 24 Am.Jur.2d Divorce and Separation § 140 (1998) (“[I]f an action for divorce is commenced and…
• Georgiana Doerschuck v. Doerschuck, 481 So. 2d 1317 (Fla. 4th DCA 1986)
  …t these two non-final orders are appealable; thus the consideration as a petition for certiorari. There is no question that a trial judge has no option but to terminate a dissolution action upon the death of one of the parties. Messana v. Messana, 421 So. 2d 48 (Fla. 4th DCA 1982); Simpson v. Simpson, 473 So. 2d 299 (Fla. 3d DCA 1985); Jaris v. Tucker, 414 So. 2d 1164 (Fla. 3d DCA), appeal dismissed, 419 So. 2d 1198 (Fla.1982); Sahler v. Sahler, 154 Fla. 206, 17 So. 2d 105 (1944). Thus, the trial court err…

Authorities Cited

• ST. Louis-San Francisco Ry. Co. v. Sidberry, 406 So. 2d 82 (Fla. 1st DCA 1981)
• Evans v. Kabbes, 407 So. 2d 260 (Fla. 2d DCA 1981)