FRANKLIN v. FRANKLIN

No. 90-991.

573 So.2d 401 (1991)

Eddie FRANKLIN, Appellant, v. Lizzie FRANKLIN, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

January 22, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Koppen, Watkins, Partners & Associates and Daniel O. Gonzalez, Jr. and Alan S. Walters, for appellant.

Bailey, Martin & Associates and Cecile Martin, for appellee.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and BARKDULL and LEVY, JJ.


SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

Franklin appeals from the denial of his Rule 1.540(b)(1)1 motion for relief from that part of a final judgment of dissolution entered against him by default which awarded his entire interest in the marital home as a "special equity" to his wife. We reverse.

Franklin is almost totally illiterate. The record is undisputed that, although he was aware that an action...

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