DONALD J. WALKER, JR., APPELLANT,
v.
DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM, APPELLEE

Fla. 2d DCA | 2016-02-24
No. 2D14-5015
VILLANTI, C.J., and WALLACE and LUCAS, JJ., Concur.
198 So. 3d 735 Florida District Court of Appeal, Second District (2016)

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Holding

The court affirmed the administrative support order because the appellant's claim of improper notice was not preserved for appellate review as it was raised for the first time on appeal.


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The father appealed an administrative support order, claiming he did not receive proper notice because his brother signed the certified mail receipt. …

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Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM.

PER CURIAM.

The father, Donald J. Walker, Jr., appeals a Final Administrative Support Or*736der rendered by the Department of Revenue. On appeal, Mr. Walker argues that he did not receive “proper” notice of the proceeding to establish the administrative support order. He claims that the person who signed the certified mail return receipt card was not him, but his brother; “Duntae Walker.”

Mr. Walker makes his claim about the asserted lack of “proper” notice for the first time on appeal, and there is no support for it in the record. Accordingly, we must affirm the order under review. “In order to be preserved for further review by a higher court, an issue must be presented to the lower court and the specific legal argument or ground to be argued on appeal or review must be part of that presentation if it is to be considered preserved.” Sunset Harbour Condo. Ass’n v. Robbins, 914 So.2d 925, 928 (Fla.2005) (quoting Tillman v. State, 471 So.2d 32, 35 (Fla.1985)); see also Aills v. Boemi, 29 So.3d 1105, 1108-09 (Fla.2010) (stating the requirements for proper preservation of error for appellate review).

Nevertheless, we give Mr. Walker the benefit of the doubt and assume that what he means to say and asserts for the first time here is that he did not receive notice at all, which implies a denial of due process. For this reason, our affirmance is without prejudice to Mr. Walker’s ability to file a motion in the lower tribunal to vacate the final order and to seek an evi-dentiary hearing on his claim that he did not receive notice. See German v. Dep’t of Revenue, 177 So.3d 318, 318 (Fla. 4th DCA 2015).

Affirmed.

VILLANTI, C.J., and WALLACE and LUCAS, JJ., Concur.


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