CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SERVICES, LLC
v.
MICHAEL TESSENEAR, CARY L. TESSENEAR, AND STEVEN K. JONAS, AS TRUSTEE OF THE 4785 OAKFIELD CIRCLE TRUST, DATED, FEBRUARY 28, 2006

Fla. 5th DCA | 2026-08-14
No. 2025-2502
Vergara, J., Jay, C.J., Soud, J., Boatwright, J.
2026 FL 10451 Florida District Court of Appeal, Fifth District (2026)

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Holding

When an underlying final judgment of foreclosure is reversed, any certificate of title issued pursuant to that judgment is void and the order denying a motion to add property information to that judgment must be reversed.


Headnotes

[1] A certificate of title issued pursuant to a final judgment of foreclosure is void and of no legal force or effect when the underlying foreclosure judgment is reversed on…

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Facts & Procedural History

Carrington Mortgage Services sought to add mobile home information to the trial court's summary final judgment and certificate of title following a ju…

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Opinion of the Court

FIFTH DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL

STATE OF FLORIDA

Case No. 5D2025-2502 LT Case No. 2014-CA-000123

CARRINGTON MORTGAGE

SERVICES, LLC, Appellant,

V.

MICHAEL TESSENEAR, CARY L.

TESSENEAR, and STEVEN K. JONAS, as Trustee of the 4785 Oakfield Circle Trust, Dated, February 28, 2006, Appellees.

On appeal from the Circuit Court for Hernando County. Pamela S. Vergara, Judge.

Eric M. Levine, of Atlas | Solomon LLP, Stuart, for Appellant. No Appearance for Appellees.

August 14 2026

PER CURIAM.

Carrington Mortgage Services, LLC, appeals the order denying its motion to add mobile home information to the trial court's summary final judgment and certificate of title issued following judicial sale of the subject foreclosed property.1 We reverse.

For reasons discussed in our opinion in the companion appeal in case number 5D2025-1687, we reversed the underlying final judgment of foreclosure and remanded for further proceedings.2 Because the final judgment has been reversed, the certificate of title issued subsequent to the foreclosure sale required thereby is no longer of any legal force or effect. As a result, the order subject of Carrington's otherwise meritorious appeal in this case is due to be reversed.

Accordingly, we reverse the trial court's order denying Carrington's motion to add mobile home information to the trial court's summary final judgment and resulting certificate of title and remand for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.

REVERSED and REMANDED for further proceedings.

JAY, C.J., and SOUD and BOATWRIGHT, JJ., concur.

Footnotes
1 No appellee has made an appearance or filed a brief in this appeal.
2 The issue in 5D2025-1687 involves the trial court's dismissal of Carrington's claim for reformation of the description of the subject property seeking to include a more precise legal metes and bounds description. Here, the issue appealed by Carrington is the trial court's denial of its request to add to the legal description the 2000 mobile home currently affixed to the property and running with the secured land. While the issues in the appeals are different, each appeal is born from the same summary final judgment.

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