SOCARRAS v. YAQUE

No. 83-2308.

452 So.2d 992 (1984)

Cristian SOCARRAS and Celeste Socarras, Appellants, v. Emma YAQUE and Ernesto Yaque, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied July 30, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cummins & Wanshel, Coral Gables, and Lawrence Wanshel, Miami, for appellants,

Floyd, Pearson, Stewart, Richman, Greer, Weil & Zack and Bruce A. Christensen and Scott J. Feder, Miami, for appellees.

Before HUBBART, BASKIN and JORGENSON, JJ.


JORGENSON, Judge.

The Socarrases appeal that portion of the Yaques' final judgment of dissolution which imposes upon the Socarrases an equitable trust, the corpus of which is the marital home, in the Yaques' favor. For the following reasons we reverse.

Emma Yaque petitioned for a divorce and, claiming that the Socarrases held it in trust for the Yaques, sought the marital home as lump sum alimony. The trial court granted the divorce and found that the marital...

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