05-2701 BERKMAN V. BERKMAN

State: Florida

Court: Florida Third District Court

Docket No: 05-2701 BERKMAN V. BERKMAN

Case Date: 02/28/2007

Preview:Third District Court of Appeal
State of Florida, January Term, A.D. 2007
Opinion filed February 28, 2007. Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing. ________________ No. 3D05-2701
Lower Tribunal No. 86-45391

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Marvin Berkman,
Appellant, vs.

Judy Berkman,
Appellee.

An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Arthur H. Taylor, Judge. Alan R. Burton, for appellant. Bill McCollum, Attorney General, and William H. Branch, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

Before ROTHENBERG and LAGOA, JJ., and SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge. ROTHENBERG, Judge.

Marvin Berkman ("the father") appeals an order issued by the Miami-Dade circuit court ("circuit court") overruling the recommendations of the general master and ordering that he pay $17,383.21 in child support arrearages. We affirm. This cause arises out of a Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act ("URESA") proceeding initiated by the appellee, Judy Berkman ("the mother"), in Pennsylvania to enforce her Pennsylvania child support order against the father, who had moved to Florida. 1 URESA provides that a custodial parent may

commence a URESA proceeding by filing a petition in the state where the custodial parent resides. After the judge determines the noncustodial parent's support obligations, the proceeding is certified to where the noncustodial (obligor) parent resides, upon which the responding state will issue an order enforcing the noncustodial parent's support obligation. While the record is unclear as to when the original support order was issued, the record does reflect that in 1986, a judgment was issued in Pennsylvania ordering the father to pay $300 a month for child support and declaring the father to be in arrears in the amount of $4,150. This order was registered in Florida for URESA has been replaced in Chapter 88, Florida Statutes (1996), by the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act ("UIFSA"). UIFSA applies to all proceedings for support or modification of support orders, or proceedings for determination of parentage, commenced on or after July 1, 1997. Ch. 96-189,

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