INNA BELL
v.
CHAD BELL

Fla. 5th DCA | 2025-01-17
No. 5D2023-2290
2025 FL 487 Florida District Court of Appeal, Fifth District (2025) Positive Treatment

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Holding

Trial courts must correct mathematical errors and omissions in dissolution judgments even though they possess wide discretion in such matters.


Headnotes

[1] Although trial courts possess wide discretion in dissolution of marriage matters, appellate courts must correct mathematical errors and omissions in final judgments, incl…

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“notwithstanding the trial court's wide discretion in dissolution matters, this court must correct mathematical errors made by the trial court. . . . Thus, remand is required for recalculation . . .”

Court citing Veith v. Veith and Doyle v. Doyle for the principle that appellate courts must correct such errors despite judicial discretion.

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In a dissolution of marriage with minor children, the parties agreed at trial that the former husband would be responsible for and credited with payin…

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Opinion of the Court

January 17, 2025 PER CURIAM.

Inna Bell (“Former Wife”) appeals from a final judgment of dissolution of marriage with minor children (“Final Judgment”). Chad Bell (“Former Husband”) cross-appeals. We affirm in all respects except as to a $10,009.00 Bank of America loan that was not included in the Final Judgment.

On cross-appeal, Former Husband argues that he was not credited with paying the $10,009.00 Bank of America loan on Former Wife’s vehicle. At the final hearing, the parties agreed Former Husband was responsible for and was to be credited with paying this marital liability. However, the Final Judgment failed to account for it.

Accordingly, we reverse and remand for the trial court to credit Former Husband with paying the $10,009.00 Bank of America loan. See Veith v. Veith, 315 So. 3d 1259, 1263 (Fla. 5th DCA 2021) (“[N]otwithstanding the trial court’s wide discretion in dissolution matters, this court must correct mathematical errors made by the trial court. . . . Thus, remand is required for recalculation . . . .” (alteration in original) (quoting Doyle v. Doyle, 789 So. 2d 499, 501 (Fla. 5th DCA 2001))). In all other respects we affirm.

AFFIRMED in part, REVERSED in part, and REMANDED. SOUD, KILBANE, and PRATT, JJ., concur.

_____________________________ Not final until disposition of any timely and authorized motion under Fla. R. App. P. 9.330 or 9.331.

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