LOUISE CLARK GREER, A WIDOW, APPELLANT,

v.

T. B. THOMPKINS AND MAGGIE NORTON, APPELLEES

Citator

Cited By

• Rankin v. Rankin, 258 So. 2d 489 (Fla. 2d DCA 1972)
  …arr v. Lubarr, Fla.App.1967, 199 So. 2d 123; Massey v. Massey, Fla.App.1967, 205 So. 2d 1; and in Steinhauer v. Steinhauer, Fla.App.1971, 252 So. 2d 825. The question then becomes what are appropriate pleadings. In Butcher v. Butcher, Fla.App.1970, 239 So. 2d 855, this court held in an opinion by Judge Hobson, concurred in by Judge McNulty and me, that where the “complaint prayed for a fair and equitable division of the jointly owned property and in addition thereto the trial court stated in the amended fina…
• Niemann v. Niemann, 294 So. 2d 415 (Fla. 4th DCA 1974)
  …lways the rule, today a trial court is authorized to divide the jointly held property of the parties if such division is sought by one of the parties and tried without objection. The authority relied upon therein is Butcher v. Butcher, Fla.App.1970, 239 So. 2d 855, and Baker v. Baker, Fla.App.1973, 271 So. 2d 796. However, the Second District Court of Appeal appears to have receded from the Butcher case. See Coykendall v. Coykendall, supra. The Baker case does not appear to support the holding of the Walton c…
• Norwood K. Walton v. Walton, 290 So. 2d 110 (Fla. 3d DCA 1974)
  …es, it appears that today a trial judge is authorized to make a division of real property even if held in an estate by the entireties, if such a division is sought by one of the parties and tried without objection. Butcher v. Butcher, Fla.App. 1970, 239 So. 2d 855; Baker v. Baker, Fla. App.1973, 271 So. 2d 796. This was not always the rule. The earlier cases clearly indicate that a trial judge could not absent a special equity divide jointly held real property [Strauss v. Strauss, 148 Fla. 23, 3 So. 2d 727; V…

Authorities Cited

• Anderson v. State, 141 So. 2d 285 (Fla. 1st DCA 1962)