BURTON v. BURTON

No. 83-1961.

448 So.2d 1229 (1984)

Eleanor Lucille BURTON, Appellant, v. Raymond Harold BURTON, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

April 25, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marc A. Tenney, St. Petersburg, for appellant.

No appearance by appellee.


OTT, Chief Judge.

In this dissolution of marriage action, the lower court ruled that in the absence of personal service on the appellee it lacked jurisdiction to deal with the title or make any award of the marital home of the parties to appellant. We reverse.

Appellant and appellee were married in 1952. Approximately twelve years ago they purchased the marital home in question in their joint names. Three years later appellee abandoned the family and his present...

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