Posted by Nydia Streets of Streets Law in Florida Divorce
Can I appeal a partial final judgment in a Florida divorce case? This was an issue in the case Petrandis v. Petrandis, 1D2024-1487 (Fla. 1st DCA April 23, 2025).
The former wife appealed a final judgment of dissolution of marriage which left some issues unresolved. The appellate court issued an order to show cause requiring the former wife to show why the court had jurisdiction to review the order. The former wife responded the the court “can consider the judgment to be an appealable partial final judgment as to the remaining issues to review her claims relating to alimony, unpaid temporary support, and attorney’s fees and costs.” The appellate court disagreed, holding “Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.110(k) authorizes review of partial final judgments but provides that ‘[a] partial final judgment, other than one that disposes of an entire case as to any party, is one that disposes of a separate and distinct cause of action that is not interdependent with other pleaded claims.’ We are not authorized to take appellate jurisdiction as to some of the issues for a piecemeal determination when the claims are interrelated as in this dissolution of marriage case. See El Gohary v. El Gohary, 76 So. 3d 355, 357 (Fla. 2d DCA 2011).”
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