JOHN S. SUTTON, APPELLANT,
v.
JANN G. SUTTON, APPELLEE

Fla. 5th DCA | 1998-02-13
No. 97-0539
PETERSON, THOMPSON and ANTOON, JJ., concur.
705 So. 2d 1054 Florida District Court of Appeal, Fifth District (1998) Positive Treatment
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Holding

The court held that the trial court's order denying the motion to dismiss must be affirmed because the appellate record lacks a transcript or stipulated facts of the evidentiary hearing, making the order not fundamentally erroneous on its face.


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The husband filed a motion to dismiss the wife's dissolution petition, alleging improper venue and failure to meet residency requirements. The trial c…

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Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM.

PER CURIAM.

John Sutton, the husband, appeals the non-final order denying his motion to dismiss or abate the dissolution petition filed by Jann Sutton, the wife. We affirm.

The instant record reveals that the.husband’s motion to dismiss alleged that the wife’s dissolution petition, which was filed in Marion County, was subject to dismissal because (1) proper venue over the dissolution matter was in Okaloosa County, and (2) the wife failed to meet the residency requirement set forth in section 61.021 of the Florida Statutes (1995).1 However, the instant record does not contain a transcript of the evidentiary hearing which was held on the husband’s motion or a stipulated statement of the facts as authorized by rule 9.200(b)(4) of the Florida Rules of Appellate Procedure. As a result, we must affirm the trial court’s order because the order is not fundamentally erroneous on its face. See Applegate v. Barnett Bank of Tallahassee, 377 So. 2d 1150, 1152 (Fla.1979).

AFFIRMED.

PETERSON, THOMPSON and ANTOON, JJ., concur. . See § 61.021, Fla. Stat. (1995)(to obtain a dissolution of marriage, one of the parties to the marriage must reside 6 months in the state before the filing of the petition).


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