EDDIE CARTER, APPELLANT,

v.

STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By

• Brennan v. Brennan, 122 So. 3d 923 (Fla. 4th DCA 2013)
  …ble Distribution of the Marital Home We reverse the trial court’s decisions regarding equitable distribution. A trial court is obligated to identify, value, and distribute the marital and non-marital assets and liabilities. Crooks v. Crooks, [*926] 967 So. 2d 969, 970 (Fla. 4th DCA 2007). The temporary use of the marital home was awarded to Former Wife “until the full implementation of the equitable distribution schedule”; however, without Exhibit “A” attached to the final order, no findings awarding the equ…
• Brussot v. Duval Brussot, 214 So. 3d 796 (Fla. 4th DCA 2017)
  …ee § 61.075(3), Fla. Stat. (2013), to make written findings determining whether the property is a marital asset and, if so, the court was required to make written findings valuing and equitably distributing the property. See, e.g., Crooks v. Crooks, 967 So. 2d 969, 970 (Fla. 4th DCA 2007). Because the court did not make the required findings, we reverse the portions of the court’s order relating to the Lake Worth residence, and remand for written findings regarding that property. We have considered and affi…
• Garrison v. Catheline Garrison, 255 So. 3d 877 (Fla. 4th DCA 2018)
  …ted dissolution action, the court must make specific written findings identifying, valuing, and distributing marital assets. § 61.075(3)(b), Fla. Stat. (2017). Failure to make the statutorily required findings requires reversal. Crooks v. Crooks, 967 So. 2d 969, 970 (Fla. 4th DCA 2007). Here, in contradiction to the governing statute, the trial court specifically declined to “assign a value to GPS.” This was error. Whelan v. Whelan, 736 So. 2d 732, 733 (Fla. 4th DCA 1999) (facially apparent equitable di…

Authorities Cited

• Jean-Heraux Ulcena, Jr. v. State, 925 So. 2d 346 (Fla. 4th DCA 2006)