VALERIA TAVERAS AND ELIEZER TAVERAS
v.
U. S. BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS LEGAL TITLE TRUSTEE FOR TRUMAN 2016 SC6 TITLE TRUST

Fla. 6th DCA | 2025-08-08
No. 2024-1528
Arendas, J., Stargel, J., Nardella, J., Brownlee, J.
2025 FL 6876 Florida District Court of Appeal, Sixth District (2025)

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Holding

Eliezer Taveras lacked standing to appeal the deficiency judgment because he was not a party to the judgment, which was entered against Valeria Taveras only.


Headnotes

[1] A party not named in a judgment lacks standing to appeal that judgment unless the party is a privy to the record and can demonstrate that he or she is injuriously affecte…

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“before a person may bring an appeal he must be a party or privy to the record and must show that he is, or will be, injuriously affected by the order sought to be reviewed”

Court citing King v. Brown, 55 So. 2d 187, 188 (Fla. 1951) for the standing requirement

Facts & Procedural History

Valeria and Eliezer Taveras appealed a Final Monetary Deficiency Judgment entered by the circuit court against Valeria Taveras in a foreclosure-relate…

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Opinion of the Court
Brownlee

SIXTH DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL

STATE OF FLORIDA

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Case No. 6D2024-1528 Lower Tribunal No. 2016-CA-000916 _____________________________

VALERIA TAVERAS and ELIEZER TAVERAS, Appellants, v. U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION as Legal Title Trustee for TRUMAN 2016 SC6 TITLE TRUST, Appellee. _____________________________

Appeal from the Circuit Court for Osceola County. Christine E. Arendas, Judge.

August 8, 2025

PER CURIAM.

Eliezer and Valeria Taveras appeal the Final Monetary Deficiency Judgment entered against Valeria Taveras only. We dismiss the appeal as to Eliezer Taveras. See Balch v. Bank of N.Y. Mellon as Tr. for holders of MASTR Alt. Loan Tr. 2006- 2, 351 So. 3d 114, 115 (Fla. 2d DCA 2022) (citing King v. Brown, 55 So. 2d 187, 188 (Fla. 1951) (“[B]efore a person may bring an appeal he must be a party or privy to the record and must show that he is, or will be, injuriously affected by the order

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sought to be reviewed.”)). As to Valeria Taveras, we affirm. See Applegate v. Barnett Bank of Tallahassee, 377 So. 2d 1150, 1152 (Fla. 1979).

AFFIRMED.

STARGEL, NARDELLA and BROWNLEE, JJ., concur.

Valeria Taveras and Eliezer Taveras, Madrid, Spain, pro se.

Adam A. Diaz, of Diaz Anselmo & Associates, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for Appellee.

NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE MOTION FOR REHEARING

AND DISPOSITION THEREOF IF TIMELY FILED


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