Bermudez v. Bermudez, 81-2456
Citation | 421 So.2d 666 |
Decision Date | 02 November 1982 |
Docket Number | No. 81-2456,81-2456 |
Parties | Sara D. BERMUDEZ, a/k/a Sally D. Bermudez, Appellant, v. Jorge BERMUDEZ, Appellee. |
Court | Court of Appeal of Florida (US) |
Maland & Turetsky and Robert C. Maland, Timothy K. Mahon, Miami, for appellant.
Hersh & Bernstein and Brian R. Hersh, Miami, for appellee.
Before HENDRY, NESBITT and DANIEL S. PEARSON, JJ.
In 1977, the marriage between the appellant, Sara D. Bermudez, and Gustavo L. Bermudez, not a party to this appeal, was dissolved. The final judgment of dissolution incorporated a property settlement agreement which, inter alia, recited that the marital home would be owned jointly by the parties, then sold, and the proceeds divided equally. It appears, however, that unbeknownst to the court, Sara and Gustavo had shortly before the dissolution executed a quit-claim deed conveying the marital home to Gustavo and to their son, the appellee, Jorge M. Bermudez, in exchange for money and a promissory note secured by a mortgage on the property.
Three years later, Sara filed a post-decretal motion in the dissolution proceeding seeking to enforce the provision of the property settlement agreement respecting the marital home and, the corollary, to rescind and cancel the quit-claim deed and related instruments. Only Sara and Gustovo were parties to this proceeding. The trial court, after conducting an evidentiary hearing, found that Sara executed the deed "in a state of mental weakness and under duress, with no consideration or wholly inadequate consideration and through the undue influence, undue imposition or fraud of [Gustavo]." The court went on to state in its order:
Thereafter, the court, pursuant to Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.250, added Jorge as a party, required that he be served with all appropriate pleadings and orders, and provided him time to respond.
Before any further action in the trial court occurred, Gustavo appealed. Jorge, concerned that rights of his may have been adjudicated without his having an opportunity to be heard, joined in the appeal. The Bermudez triangle thus formed, Sara moved to dismiss the appeals asserting (correctly, we think) that the order appealed from did no more than express an intent to rescind and cancel the quit-claim deed, note and mortgage in the future, and resolved no rights of Jorge, who was, admittedly, not yet accorded his due process right to be heard. Thereafter, this court affirmed the trial court's order without opinion. See Bermudez v. Bermudez, 397 So.2d 780 (Fla. 3d DCA 1981).
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