KELLEY v. KELLEY

Nos. 4D13-21, 4D13-576.

147 So.3d 597 (2014)

Gordon Phelps KELLEY, III, Appellant, v. Joanna KELLEY, individually, and Joanna Kelley and Northern Trust Bank of Florida, N.A., as Co-Trustees of the Marital Trust created under the 2008 will; Bank of New York, Camille Weiss and Errett Van Nice, as Co-Trustees of the Gordon P. Kelley, Jr., Agreement, Amnesty International of the U.S.A., Inc., Cousteau Society and World Wildlife Fund, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

September 10, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward Downey and R. Lee McElroy, IV of Downey & Downey, P.A., Palm Beach Gardens, for appellant.

Bernard Allen and Frank T. Adams of Katz Barron Squitero Faust, Miami, for appellee Joanna Kelley.

James R. George and Tattiana Brenes-Stahl of Greenberg Traurig, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appelle, Northern Trust Bank of Florida, N.A.

Douglas F. Hoffman of Rudolf & Hoffman, P.A., for appellees Amnesty International of the U.S.A., Inc., Cousteau Society and World Wildlife Fund.


GROSS, J.

At issue is a third party's ability to collaterally attack a foreign state's judgment within the confines of the Full Faith and Credit Clause. Appellant Gordon Kelley III ("Gordon III"), a son disinherited under his father's will, challenges two orders that dismissed his actions seeking to invalidate his father's exercise of a limited power of appointment on the grounds that his father was not legally married to his second wife, the intended beneficiary...

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