01-3028 EFRON V. EFRON

State: Florida

Court: Florida Third District Court

Docket No: 01-3028 EFRON V. EFRON

Case Date: 04/03/2002

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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF FLORIDA THIRD DISTRICT JANUARY TERM, A.D. 2002

DAVID EFRON, Appellant, vs. MADELEINE EFRON, Appellee.

** ** ** ** ** LOWER TRIBUNAL NO. 99-12806 CASE NO. 3D01-3028

Opinion filed April 3, 2002. An appeal from a non-final order from the Circuit Court for Dade County, Robert N. Scola, Jr., Judge. Young, Berman, Karpf & Gonzalez and Mitchell K. Karpf; Cynthia L. Greene, for appellant. Blaxberg, Grayson, Kukoff & Segal and Moises T. Grayson and Ian J. Kukoff, for appellee. Before JORGENSON, COPE and GERSTEN,* JJ. COPE, J. David Efron appeals an order denying his motion to terminate alimony. We affirm.

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Judge Gersten did not hear oral argument, but participated in the decision.

I. The parties have pending matrimonial proceedings in Florida and Puerto Rico. The parties have ties to both jurisdictions.

In 1999, husband David Efron filed a petition in Miami-Dade County, Florida, for shared parental responsibility and primary physical residence. Wife Madeleine Efron ultimately counterclaimed for dissolution of marriage, alimony, and equitable distribution, among other things. The Florida court awarded the wife temporary alimony. Both parties also filed petitions for divorce in Puerto Rico.1 The Florida and Puerto Rico trial judges conferred under the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act (UCCJA). Fla. Stat. (1999). See

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