STATE, DEPT. OF REVENUE v. DOWNWARD

No. 96-04154.

702 So.2d 516 (1997)

STATE of Florida, DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, on Behalf of Colleen MONAHAN-JACOBS, Appellant, v. Franklin H. DOWNWARD, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied November 17, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee and Barbara A. Ard, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellant.

John S. Simms of Staack and Klemm, P.A., Clearwater, for Appellee.


FRANK, Acting Chief Judge.

The State Department of Revenue, on behalf of Colleen Monahan-Jacobs, has appealed from an order denying its petition for support under the Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act (1968) (hereinafter URESA) and from an order denying its motion to vacate that decision. We find that the trial court should not have dismissed this action, and reverse.

Attached to Monahan-Jacobs' URESA petition for support and for medical...

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