STANFORD v. STANFORD

No. 4D06-96.

940 So.2d 605 (2006)

Joseph STANFORD, Appellant, v. Miriam STANFORD, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

November 1, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard G. Bartmon of the Law Offices of Bartmon & Bartmon, P.A., Boca Raton, for appellant.

Jan Peter Weiss, Lake Worth, for appellee.


FARMER, J.

In a pretrial order allowing husband's lawyer to withdraw, the court gave husband 60 days to obtain new counsel. Exactly 28 days after that order, and within the 60-day period allowed for the appearance of new counsel, the trial judge inexplicably proceeded to try the case in the absence of the husband or his counsel, entering a final judgment of dissolution of marriage—essentially by default. We reverse...

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