DEPT. OF REVENUE v. ORTIZ

No. 4D10-4069.

84 So.3d 1206 (2012)

DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE o/b/o Socorro FLORES, Appellant, v. Steve ORTIZ, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

April 11, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pamela Jo Bondi , Attorney General, Tallahassee, and William H. Branch , Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for appellant.

No brief filed on behalf of appellee.


MAY, C.J.

The integrity of a Puerto Rican child support order is at issue in this appeal. The Department of Revenue ("DOR") argues the trial court erred in vacating the Puerto Rican judgment of dissolution and child support, which had been registered in Florida under section 88.6011, Florida Statutes (2010). We agree and reverse.

The long history of this litigation began when the mother sought the dissolution of her marriage and child support from a Puerto...

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