Legal Opinion
Spear v. Spear
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided December 22, 1987No. 87-1525PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
ON MOTION TO REVIEW DENIAL OF MOTION TO TAX COSTS
SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.
After this court, in Spear v. Spear, 510 So.2d 371 (Fla. 3d DCA 1987), issued a writ of prohibition precluding the trial court from further proceedings on the ground that it lacked subject matter jurisdiction over the cause, the successful party below, the ex-wife, moved to tax costs in her favor. The trial judge denied the motion on the sole ground that he lacked jurisdiction to do so. We reverse this order.
A necessary adjunct to the hackneyed, but accurate, expression that a court always has jurisdiction to determine its…
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