ALLAN O'BRIEN DENCHFIELD v. U.S. BANK, N.A., Etc.
CourtDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida
Date FiledFebruary 5, 2020
Docket3D18-2464
StatusPublished
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Full Opinion
Third District Court of Appeal
State of Florida
Opinion filed February 5, 2020.
Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.
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No. 3D18-2464
Lower Tribunal No. 16-31377
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Allan O'Brien Denchfield,
Appellant,
vs.
U.S. Bank, N.A., etc., et al.,
Appellees.
An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, David C. Miller,
Judge.
Allan O'Brien Denchfield, in proper person.
Wallen | Kelley, and Todd L. Wallen, for appellee Arthur Denchfield.
Before EMAS, C.J., and LOGUE and GORDO, JJ.
PER CURIAM.
Affirmed. See § 45.032(2), Fla. Stat. (2016) (providing in pertinent part:
“There is established a rebuttable legal presumption that the owner of record on the
date of the filing of a lis pendens is the person entitled to surplus funds after payment
of subordinate lienholders who have timely filed a claim”); All Ctys. Surplus LLC
v. Flamingo S. Beach I Condo. Ass'n, Inc., 211 So. 3d 1096, 1097 (Fla. 3d DCA
2017) (holding that “distribution of surplus foreclosure proceeds is governed by a
plain and unambiguous statutory procedure which clearly provides that the owner of
record is entitled to the surplus proceeds”); Pineda v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., 143
So. 3d 1008, 1011 (Fla. 3d DCA 2014)(holding: “Neither the statutes nor the case
law governing distribution of surplus foreclosure sale proceeds provides a
mechanism authorizing a third-party purchaser to obtain the surplus”). See also
Quinones v. Southeastern Inv. Grp. Corp., 138 So. 3d 549, 549 (Fla. 3d DCA 2014)
(holding that “because Appellants were non-parties in the action and were not
included in the final judgment, they are considered legal strangers to the action and,
as such, have no standing to appeal that final judgment”); YHT & Assocs., Inc. v.
Nationstar Mortg. LLC, 177 So. 3d 641, 643 (Fla. 2d DCA 2015) (holding that
appellant whose motion to intervene was denied and who failed to seek appellate
review of that order was not a party to the underlying foreclosure proceeding and,
therefore, had no standing to seek review of an order subsequently entered in that
proceeding).
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