Jacqueline Suzanne Goff v. Ryan Mitchell Goff and Coastal Living Electrical, LLC.
CourtDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida
Date FiledJanuary 5, 2022
Docket2D20-2036
StatusPublished
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DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF FLORIDA
SECOND DISTRICT
JACQUELINE SUZANNE GOFF,
Appellant,
v.
RYAN MITCHELL GOFF and
COASTAL LIVING ELECTRICAL, LLC,
a Florida corporation,
Appellees.
No. 2D20-2036
January 5, 2022
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Lee County; G. Keith Cary, Judge.
Jacqueline Suzanne Goff, pro se.
Linda H. Fried of Fried and Fried, P.A., Fort Myers, for Appellee
Ryan Mitchell Goff.
No appearance for remaining Appellee.
SILBERMAN, Judge.
Jacqueline Suzanne Goff (the Former Wife) appeals a final
judgment dissolving her marriage to Ryan Mitchell Goff (the Former
Husband). She raises eight issues on appeal but has failed to
provide a trial transcript or appropriate substitute.1 The Former
Husband properly concedes error in two respects as to issues four
and eight. We reverse and remand the final judgment solely as to
those two items. As to the remainder of the Former Wife’s issues,
we affirm the final judgment without discussion.
As to issue four, the trial court awarded the marital home to
the Former Husband, and he concedes that the trial court should
make provision for him to use his best efforts to refinance the
marital home to obtain a "mortgage solely in his name within a
reasonable time and include a hold harmless provision" if the
Former Husband cannot obtain refinancing. Patel v. Patel, 162 So.
3d 165, 166 (Fla. 5th DCA 2015). We reverse and remand for entry
of an amended final judgment to the extent that the trial court shall
(1) direct the Former Husband to use his best efforts to refinance
1 Without a transcript or a statement of the evidence, a
reversal is appropriate only when "an error of law is apparent on the
face of the judgment." Banks v. Banks, 168 So. 3d 273, 275 (Fla.
2d DCA 2015).
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the marital home within a reasonable time in order to relieve the
Former Wife of liability on the existing mortgage and (2) "include a
hold harmless provision in the amended final judgment in the event
the [F]ormer [H]usband is unable to obtain refinancing." Id.
As to issue eight and the subject of child support, the trial
court found "that given the substantial time that each party will
have with the children and their relative income, neither party shall
pay child support to the other." The Former Husband contends
that the child support guidelines worksheet indicated, based on the
Former Wife's income plus alimony, that she would owe a nominal
amount of support under the parenting plan. He asserts that the
trial court acted within its discretion in not requiring the Former
Wife to pay the nominal amount of support and that he did not
raise an objection.
The Former Husband concedes that the trial court
inadvertently failed to attach the worksheet to the final judgment.
In determining child support, it is error to fail to include in the final
judgment a child support guidelines worksheet. J.A.D. v. K.M.A.,
264 So. 3d 1080, 1083 (Fla. 2d DCA 2019). Thus, we direct the
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trial court to attach the child support guidelines worksheet to the
amended final judgment on remand.
Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded.
MORRIS, C.J., and NORTHCUTT, J., Concur.
Opinion subject to revision prior to official publication.
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